October Officer Meeting
October 5, 2023

For our October General Meeting, we will have Dr. Marcela Loría-Salazar as our guest speaker.

The National Weather Festival is October 14th!! If you’d like to sign up as a Weather Friend please reach out to Scotty or see the Discord for more information

Our joint disaster fundraiser with OWL and SAC will be live from October 14th to the 27th! The proceeds of the fundraiser will be split between Florida and Hawaii. The table for the fundraiser will be in the NWC Atrium.

Our Annual Food Drive is from November 6th to 17th.

September Officer Meeting
September 7, 2023

Officers discussed having non-members interested in attending general meetings to pay a $10 ticket fee to attend the general meetings. The T-shirt Fundraiser will be going live soon for two weeks with student and faculty pick-up available at the NWC as well as direct home shipping. Discussion over how the election of the Freshman and Graduate Representatives will happen. OU SCAN and the Weather Friends will be attending the Max Westheimer Aviation Festival on September 23. Possible new amendment for the SCAN Constitution to rework the election process for the Freshman and Graduate Representatives. Discussion of the AMS Student Conference Abstract topic was discussed as well as plans for the September Social Event, The Little Event registration, and future guest speakers for monthly general meetings.

Synopsis (Meeting Minutes):

Our November general meeting will be November 29 from 6-7:30. We will have Cameron Nixon IN PERSON to talk about all the fun stuff he does!

Options for catering:

• McAlisters
• Qdoba
• Olive Garden
• Red Robin
• Cupbop

We will have a joint game night with OWL on December 1st from 6-8 PM. We have 1313 booked and we will have board games, Just Dance, and more! If any board members have games to bring, please do so!

We currently have $1959.56 in the OU SCAN bank account. This is after the funds for the Hurricane Relief Fundraiser has been taken out. We got roughly $200 from our Panda Express fundraiser which hasn’t been deposited yet. 

We got more than 400 items from our food drive! We are still waiting on our money from Pinkberry. Little event was a huge success and we had tons of people at the National Weather Festival.

The 103rd AMS Annual conference will be January 8th-12th 2022 in Denver Colorado! The local chapter officers’ breakfast will be Tuesday, January, 10 from 7-8:30 AM.

We have a few possible service opportunities coming up. We could do Toys for Tots hopefully starting at the end of this week. We could also do an Adopt-a-Family with Urban League OKC which would take place though the month of December which is a difficult timeline for us since people will be going home for Christmas.

October 18, 2022

The food for the October meeting was Slim Chickens
Savannah gave announcements about the food drive, Little Event, the hurricane fundraiser, our October Social event (movie night), and the National Weather Festival
The Little Event is this Saturday, October 22nd, from 9am-12pm. A discord group will be made in the coming days to coordinate for our jobsite in OKC. Bring clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty.
The Hurricane Fundraiser is going well! We have raised over $1500 and are over halfway to beating last year’s total.

The October Social event will be a movie night next Tuesday night in the NWC. The members voted on the movie using the provided QR code. The National Weather Festival will be on Saturday, October 29th from 10am to 2pm. We will be selling t-shirts and stickers. The Weather Friends will also be there!
Emily Lenhardt, from SAC, gave an announcement about Multicultural Fest in January. It will be the first one since January 2020. SAC is looking for multicultural groups on campus and they should email her or Bryony if they are interested in participating in the Multicultural Fest.

Dr. Sakaeda was our October speaker. Her research focuses on Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) , diurnal cycle of rainfall and clouds, tropical-extratropical interactions, etc. Diagrams about the MJO were shown and discussed by the speaker and SCAN members. She more specifically focuses on the issues with modeling the tropics. She talked about her career path. Her job duties include teaching, researching and service. She also talked about the different sectors of meteorology and options available for students after graduating from OU.

October 11, 2022

Synopsis (Meeting Minutes):

The Panda Express benefit day will be October 13. You can order at ANY Panda Express in the country and use the code 910077 in the mobile app.

The OU SCAN food drive will be October 10-4. Class reps will be gathering and delivering these donations. 

Little Event will be October 22 from 9AM-12PM. We currently have 21 volunteers signed up. 

We don’t currently know how much we made from our Pinkberry event, but Marcus is working with them and we should find out soon.

Our October general meeting is Tuesday October 18 from 5-7:30PM. Dr. Sakaeda will be presenting about tropical meteorology. We are planning on having Slim Chicken’s and getting some more soda and water from Walmart. The total cost will be around $250. 

We discussed the budget and fundraising sources. We also had a large increase in active members!

Our t-shirt fundraiser is over! We had 65 general member orders and 17 officer orders. They should be ready to pick up in the next 2 weeks and will be stored in the SoM student leadership office. 

Our October social event will be a movie night in NWC 1313 on October 15th from 6-8PM. We hope to have hot chocolate to serve!

Movie Ideas

• Hocus Pocus 2
• Halloweentown
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• Frankenweenie
• Ghostbusters

The National Weather Festival is October 29 from 10AM-2PM. We NEED more people to volunteer to be Weather Friends. We are also looking to get new cards for the Weather Friends and we can sell t-shirts or stickers at the festival. The cards will cost about $637, but A&GS has stated that they will be able to pitch in and cover a good chunk of the costs! If you are going to be volunteering at Weather Fest, please let Savannah know so that we can give your names to NWC security.

We have officially broken $1,000 for the Hurricane Relief Fundraiser and it’s only the 2nd day! We need more officers to sign up to table outside the OWL Lab.

September General Meeting

September 20, 2022

We opened up our meeting with Megan Gold. She talked about her time at OU as well as being Miss Oklahoma. She gave some advice on making connections and just soaking everything in including just having fun while being in college. She said that the best thing you can do while in college is to ask questions and ask for help.

Jacob Terrell also came to speak about the National Weather Museum and Science Center. 

Tyler Bell also came to talk about his work with BLISS. Tyler is a research scientist at CIWRO who works with BLISS. Bliss is looking for people interested to help with UAS work including coptorsondes and damage assessment. They are currently looking for people with a Part 107 license or people interested in getting one to come help fly drones. They are also looking for people to assist with operations. If you are interested, please reach out to Tyler! 

The OU Westheimer Aviation Festival is looking for volunteers on October 1st from 9AM-2PM! They will have free breakfast! The Weather Friends will also be in attendance, so if you are interested, please reach out to Kaitlyn.

Little Event will be October 22nd from 9AM-12PM. We are doing an OU Met. Organizations group again, so if you’d like to volunteer, please sign up!

We will be having our September social event at Pink Berry on September 22nd! This will also be a benefit night for us, so please bring friends – even if they aren’t in SCAN! 

The Freshman also voted on the Freshman Representative. The Freshman Representatives for the 2022-2023 school year are Reagan Mendeke and Ethan Stroberg!

September Officer Meeting

September 13, 2022

Synopsis (Meeting Minutes):

Per our constitution, all OU SCAN leaders are required to attend mandatory yearly Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training. As per a vote during this meeting, you are expected to attend all of them, but you must attend 2/3 of them at a minimum. If you cannot attend regardless of any reason, you must contact the SCAN President and Vice Presidents, and A&GS Assistant Dean via a formal email to explain why you cannot attend the training. This amendment passed with 10 in favor and 0 against.

We now have an Apparel/Fundraiser Chair! Jack Shumaker will be appointed to this role.

Our September General Meeting is September 20th from 5-7:30 PM. We will be getting Papa Johns with salads. Megan Gold will be speaking from 6-7:30 and we will be eating in the atrium from 5-6PM. The cost for food will be roughly $165. 

We are currently looking for companies to print t-shirts and have a couple of options. We could continue to talk with ID Solutions and try to figure out a plan, or we could have our apparel fundraiser now with a SoM friendly design and go through a cheap printing vendor, pay the difference, and then sell as much as we want. 

The abstract for AMS has been submitted! All officers will be listed as authors, but you must have an AMS account to be added. Once you have created an AMS account, please let Kaitlyn know!

The NSF EPSCoR Women in Science Conference is October 4th at the Oklahoma Science Museum from 9AM-2PM. If you are able to attend and help present, please do!

We will be having a Pinkberry Picnic on September 22nd from 4-8PM. The October General Meeting will be October 18th from 5-7:30PM. The October Social Event will be October 27th. Last but not least, the National Weather Festival will be October 29th from 10AM-2PM!

We have a couple of service opportunities coming up as well! The Little Event will be October 22nd from 9AM-12PM. 

Our next officer meeting will be October 11th at 6:30PM.