Time: Friday November 27 2009, 04:30 PM- 05:30 PM
Location: TASC 9896

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Attendees:
Vivian Xu
Catherine Tan
Shaya Zahabioun
Jiahui Xu Liyang Zhang
sumo Kindersley
Shannon juzenas
Alvina Lee
Chani Armitage
Daniela Dadalau
Hong Ying Amy Gu
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1) Report from Caty:
- WICS available cash amount in Cash box is $40. ( It is not included Cat’s unpaid printing amount - $2.69)
- WICS credit in the bank account is $2392.54 (without accounting Caty’s unsigned check)
- Still we didn’t receive replies from Dave about the movie tickets.

2) Database Workshop:
- 18 people attended the workshop ( same number of boys and girls)
- Photos will be on the website soon.
- The workshop went very well.
- We spent $12.69 for the workshop ( gift cards and the posters).

3) Scholarship workshop:
- It went very well.
- Wendy said she enjoyed the presentation and she likes to encourage other students to ask advisors in Financial Aids office for more information.
- Vivian sent out a follow up Email and she attached the presentation slides.
- We spent $26.92 for this workshop ( gift, board updates, posters and snacks).

4) The WICS social event:
- Curling would not be possible as there is no place available. ( only one ring in Richmond has available time for Sunday)
- The day is set to Friday Dec 4th, 6PM to 9PM.
- The event would be Asian Karaoke at Mix2 Karaoke in Burnaby.
- It will cost around $13 per person.
- To have the exact number of attendees, RSVP is required in Facebook.

5) Try/Catch:
- The good news: TRY/CATCH has got the Systers Pass-it-on rewards for try/Catch. Thanks to Winona and Longlong.
- We need to Email CSIL helpdesk to book room and required facilities.
- The logo and poster are ready.
- Daniela helped us and reviewed the sponsorship proposal. She also helped us to advertise to high schools and potential sponsors.
- Liyang and her teammates are working on the website. it will be on http://trycatch.cmpt.sfu.ca
- Shannon is working on the sponsorship specification and everything is going well.
- We will try to send out sponsorship package in December.
- Vivian has tried to apply for Google Rise price, but it needs a letter from Dean of CS department. We need to contact Rob Cameron for this letter.
- This year’s Google RISE is still for US universities only. We will try to see if it can be extended to Canada.

6) SCWIST Brown bags:
- It is a technical meeting that should be held every month.
- There should be technical topic that everyone will talk about it and attendees will exchange ideas and discuss about the given topic.
- A summary of discussions then will be send to the organization.
- We need more volunteers for organizing the meetings.
- Jiahui signed up for the moderator position.

7) Guest from Zhejiang University:
- Amy was our guest from Zhejiang University in the meeting.
- She has Ph.d. in Artificial Intelligence.
- She had researches in matching learning and pattern recognition.
- Now she is working in National Science Foundation Project.
- She teaches Object Oriented programming and Software Engineering in Zhejiang University.
- She believes that WICS is a cool name and it is a great community to talk about new technologies.
- She likes to suggest having WICS in the Zhejiang university students.
- She talked about women situation at work in China.

8 ) One Moment of Silence: Resisting Violence
- This event is in memorial of 14 women that were gunned down in their university in Montreal.
- It will be held by TSSU on Monday December 7th, 4:30 PM at AQ Bridge.
- More information is on http://www.tssu.ca/node/93.

9) Lunch with women in Psychology:
- There is a lunch event in downtown with women in psychology.
- It would be on December 3rd and everyone can attend.