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Over-achievers,

I've added photos, videos, changed the layout, we have a newsfeed of college achievers, and also a poll (which is funny, so vote). Enjoy.

Marko

Leadership Presentation

Marko will explain the game, then a short debriefing after the activity (by Gary).

Tom will explain Diana/Teresa.

Then we'll go into the 5 myths of leadership:
#1-Rafa
#2-Yarrow
#3-Colter
#4-Kraig
#5-Haley

progress

Overachievers...

Great job team!!
We raised $1500 for Spring Fling. We successfully raised money and had a raffle to award a special scholarship. We were able to successfully attract more than a dozen applicants to our scholarship, and based on our grading rubric were able to find a very worthy recipient. All told about $1800 worth of fund-raising.

I think we are close to doing our leadership exercise and brief lecture based on leadership "Influence." Beyond that we have the paper to write and I've done a bit of research on that...so I think we are in pretty good shape. I also may need a little help in compiling all our notes and such into a binder of our group for Skye. I'd also like to include the 2 DVD's of photos from Spring Fling and from the Intercultural discussion panel.

Let me know if I'm leaving anything out.

Marko

minutes 4.29.09

Chair:Craig
Par:Colter
Timekeeper:Gary
Minutes:Rafa

1. Leadership Presentation
"Influence Activity" (Writing things on people's back? Sure.) Marko's in charge.
5 minute activity then short explanation

2. Scholarship Update
PRIZES: 2x$12 yoga pass 1x$30 basic safety course(climbing) $120 spring hills $100 chardonnay tickets (2)
Pick scholarship recipient in-class on Tuesday.

3. Spring Fling Update
Sell tickets for raffle from 5:00-6:00: Yarrow, Rafa

4.Looks Good!

Minutes 4.23.09

Chair: Gary
Minutes: Haley
Par: Tom

Attendance: Colter and Yarrow both gone.

1. Leadership Presentation

-everyone has read the chapter

-Marko's idea to tape paper to everyone's backs and people write positive comments on the paper (within groups). This illustrates power of influence may have, despite popularity, loudness, or outgoing personality. Activity first, then explanation of the chapter. Supplies needed: typing paper, tape, colored pens (or something colorful that won't bleed).


2. Raffle prizes

-2 yoga/pilates classes and a basic safety course from Pacific Edge (3 prizes total)

-might get a round of golf...

-might get $50 gift card from Crow's Nest...

-Chardonnay tickets (sailing)...


3. Scholarship funds

-money coming from raffle ticket sales and Gary/Kraig's golf day, any extra money over $500 goal can be used to buy extra prizes


4. Group update for Spring Fling

-program being designed, posters are made and need to be hung


5. Diversity Panel

-Skye needs help setting up for it, if anyone can volunteer it would be great.

Next week's roles...
chair: Kraig
minutes: Rafa
par: Yarrow

Hi guys, it doesn't look like I'm going to make it to class today, I think I'm fighting off a little fever. See y'all on Thursday.

-Haley

Got donation

By the way, I received 2 yoga class passes and 1 basic saftey pass from Pacific Edge the other day for our raffle. Also, my apologies to Colter, Haley, and Marco for possibly missing tonights leadership classroom-activity meeting. I am feeling like a load of crap due to a sudden cold/flu/whatever. I should see you guys on Tuesday. Peace.

-Rafa

SUCCESS!!

Oh, did I mention it? Success!! $1500 from the Student Senate to the Spring Fling Event. That's right ladies and gents--Goal A is achieved. Thanks to the entire team for continuing to help with this important goal. Hopefully it will encourage other groups toward achieving their own goals.

We did a good thing here, friends. Let's stay focused.

Thanks,

Marko

2 other things...

1. If y'all haven't seen Tom's email, the reading log and reading response due date of 4.9 isn't strict (Skye also told me this after class, which I intended to pass on, but it seems Tom beat me to it, good job man)

2. To add a post to the blog, go to the top right corner of the blog page and click "sign in." This will lead you to your dashboard (if you haven't already, it may ask that you sign in w/ username and password). Once you get to the dashboard, a list of blogs you're involved with will appear and there should be a button that says "create new post" There ya go. I know there's another place where signing in is an option, but doesn't lead to being able to post to the blog, which seems confusing to me, so I wanted to clear it up for all of us!

just to make it immediately visible...

Overachievers Agenda
April 2, 2009

Leadership chapter
A. Exercise to lead class
B. Fun participation game

Fundraising
A. Closest to hole
B. Raffle
C. ???

Class Home Work For Group
A. Dates
B. Work
C. Study Groups

Team committees
A. Group Meetings
B. Selection of Outside meeting area

Next Week responsabilities

Meeting Minutes 4/2/09

Chair: Colter
Minutes: Tom
Parliamentarian: Kraig

Call Meeting to Order: 11:18

Attendance: All Present

Spring Fling Update: Haley and Yarrow went to meeting to talk about poster designs for Spring Fling. Competition amongst students from other school for a $100 prize for having the winning poster design. Fliers will be made, as well as handouts. Other group has already raised money for prize.
Marko: concerned about deadlines for poster designs to be submitted to the printers.

I. Leadership Chapter
A. Class Exercise: IDEA A- 1. Outline Chapter (highlights of chapter), 2. Do an interactive class activivty 3. Possibly divide people based on they voice level (ie seperate loud from quiet, and then have students pick who they beleive are leaders amongst both groups of students). Discussed topic of influence. Still working on creating an in class interactive activity
Leadership In Class Activity Moved to Committee: Marko, Colter, Haley, Rafa

Group A Update:
Meeting 3pm today, first item in old business. Marko buying donuts for the senate. Everyone be there and show your support.

Group B Update: present scholarship packet with donation letter, scholarship form & flier
Closest To The Pin- Pajaro or Spring Hills (still looking for a date)- Kraig and Gary are on it.
Raffle- Tom has tickets
Rafa- made flier
Tom- created donation letter, and scholarship form
Tom- will email donation letter and scholarship form this weekend after forms are updated to all group members so that we can start as soon as possible.
Rafa- Creting a group website for donors to see

Scholarship/Donation Letter/Flier- All approved

Written Work for Leadership Book (What's needed):
Chapter Outline
Copies of all documents
Refer to Agenda's and Minutes on Blog in leiu of turning in actual hard copies.
Senate proposal



*Marko will be collater of all group work. Give all hard copies to Marko.

Meeting Adjourned: 11:50

NOTES

ATTENDANCE: Everyone but the Marco. His absence was excused.

CHAPTER DECISION: Chose to go with chapter two. The Law of Influence.

SCHOLARSHIP: We need to create a rubric for those applying for the scholarship.

GOAL A: The senate did not put us on the agenda. Hopefully next Thursday.
GOAL B: Rubric for scholarship needs to be created.

FUND RAISER DECISION:
1. Closest to pin (golf)
2. Raffle
3. ?

MEETINGS FOR GROUPS: Group B will be meeting after class on Tuesday.

ROLES:
Chair: Colter
Notes: Tom
Par: Kraig

over-achievers...

I'm going to miss school today, Thursday.
Sorry for the short notice. I've got a family commitment I can't get out of.
See you all on Tuesday. I've read Chapter 2 of the book...it gets my vote if you all agree.

Thanks again for the banner Colter.

The senate will vote on our item next week in Aptos. I've heard from Sesario and Sophia and they apologize for letting our item slip off their agenda. It still looks promising for us. Keep the faith.

marko

March 24

Group...

Unfortunately, after checking the senate's agenda we are once again NOT on it. ( AGS is on it this week). I have emailed the adviser and several key senators including Sophia who is our sponsor on this item. It will be on next week or I will know the reason why. (they meet in Watsonville this Thursday, so that would have been a pain anyway)

In our book, several group members seem to be liking Rule #2 which deals with Influence. Skye also voiced her approval of this chapter. Perhaps we could all review the chapter and brainstorm ideas about our class presentation and ideas to make the activity memorable.

Several great things are happening with Spring Fling. Committees our group members will want to be involved with.

A thousand thanks to Colter who created the best frickin banner the class has ever seen. Other groups are visibly bitter.

See everyone on Thursday.

Marko

Update Goal 1, Group A

Group:

Many thanks to Rafa for helping me at the senate meeting and to Colter and others who sat through a very boring meeting waiting to get to our issue. (the senate voted twice on whether to open or close the windows...I'm not kidding)

Amazingly enough, it looks like they are going to go for it. The vote is this Thursday at 3pm!! Please plan to attend.

Thanks to Colter for taking on the poster project.

I hope you all received the xerox of the 21 laws...(book index) we want to pick one law to use for our class demo. We will vote on this on Thursday, if you don't have the list contact me. I should have at least 3 copies of the book this week for you guys to read and look through.

A real Communications Club would be an interesting goal for our group. I think there is interest on campus for a club of this kind. Of course, many of us would love to see it happen...the question is if any of us really have the time to commit long-term to an undertaking this big.

Have a great weekend everyone!

marko

Agenda: Thursday March 12, 2009

Chair: Haley
Notes: Gary
Par: Colter

1. Attendance
a. Should we make this one of our roles?

2. Update on leadership book

3. Progress on Goals A/B
a. reminder: Student Senate mtg. at 3pm SAC East (255?)

4. Schedule additional/external meetings if necessary

5. Next week's roles

6. Poster

Midtown near the beach?

Group B,
I heard from Yarrow last night that she won't be able to make it today. I, however, am still planning on meeting up. There is a mission I need to pull off near Seabright beach (involving huge cypress trees, climbing equipment, and a $500 motorized plane), so anywhere near there would be cool. It looks like it won't rain so we could meet outside unless its too cold. Otherwise there is Taqueria Cancun, right next to Day's market, which is always practically empty (they have way more room than they need for customers) so we could order some chips and get to business... Let me know by phone if you can.

-Rafa (831)-239-2115

Group B Meeting Location for 3/8/09 @ 2pm

Hey Group B,

Where do you want to meet today?
I've only heard back from Yarrow.
Call me and let me know if we are still planning on meeting up.
(831) 332-5101

-Tom

Goal Group A

Group,

I received this email from our sponsoring senator:

Hi Marko,

Of course! I'll try and get it early on the agenda and will send you a note to confirm asap.

Hope all is well,

Sophia

In addition, I heard from the secretary, Anthony, who confirms he will try to place it early on the agenda. (which is better when trying to squeeze money)

I will work on a quick fact sheet, which we should copy and distribute to the senate on Thursday.
(app. 25 copies).

If Group A is still meeting on Sunday remember daylight savings time...1 hour ahead. So Sunday at 9 am is really Sunday at 8am...(ugh). I've ordered 3 or 4 copies of our leadership book already--they are getting gobbled up and Amazon has some freaky thing when you try to order multiple copies of the same book (they think you are making a mistake).

Whoever is chairing the meeting next week, please add book discussion to the agenda.

I'm honored also to be in this highly motivated group! Great work with the logo and chairing the meeting Rafa!! When will our first fundraiser be???

best,

Marko

Student Senate Meeting

Groupies,

I spoke during Public comments at the Senate meeting today. I also gave out pens and bookmarks. Senator Sophia Forde will sponsor our item and it will be on next week's agenda for $1500.

I will prepare a handout that we can give to the senate addressing major selling points.

I will touch bases with Anthony (secretary) and Sophia to make sure we are on the agenda.

I need Skye and all our group members to get as many people as possible to commit to coming to the senate meeting next week Thursday at 3pm in SAC East. Even if they can only stay through public comments it would be very helpful. 10 minutes of their time could help us accomplish our goal here. Lots of people are coming knocking for money right now, so hopefully they are feeling generous. I made a strong case for it, so I feel we have a good shot at this.

(Can we find one or two of the old posters from last year? They were super cool and would be a good visual. Can we get someone who participated last year to come and comment? Someone ethnic would be ideal, not to put too fine a point on it.)

Talk to you all soon.

Marko

Group B Meeting Location

Whats up Group B?

Hey. Im cool with meeting up pretty much anywhere this Sunday at 2pm for our group meeting. My only request is that we don't meet in downtown Santa Cruz because I will most likely have my saxophone with me, and I don't feel comfortable leaving that in my car in downtown Santa Cruz.

Good Times,

-Tom

Attendance: All accounted for
Chair: Rafa
Par: Haley
Timer: Kraig

Problems: Everyone talks at the same time, nothing is getting communicated.
Raising hands, Chair calls on people, going around the table.
Leader ship book: Wisdom of Crowds; Already being used to teach the class, difficult to teach out own lesson. Which ever is cheaper. The 21 irrefutable rules of leadership. amazon.com
Have one person to order all of them. Pay Marco.
Charter the rules: Everyone is fine with it and the new logo.
Next week rules: Chair: Haley Notes/timer: Gary Par: Colter
Progress report: Group A, meet with Skye, and get people to attend the senate meeting.
In room Sac East, asking them for money for the spring fling. Have communication students show up.
Tax ID #: needs a document written up explaining who we are. Create comm 2 club.


Skye Interview: past money for spring fling was $2500, now it is $0, ask for $500 and raise $1000 for sholerships. Selling it, diversity, we invite students from all campuses, honoring them with scholarships. May 6th, 6-7:30 main theater. IF given money we'll say supported by the Senate....
Theater is $160 + $80 Piano moving, Attendance as 400 students (no cost to students). Comm awards, 86 last year, scholarships 2 (this year). Spring fling has gone on for the past 3 years.

Fun raising: Golf tournaments, softball game, rummage sale, donations, at least one On-campus fund raiser.

Out of class meetings: Sunday, Group B at 2pm in SC, Group A at 9am.

Summary

Chair: Rafa
Timer: Yarrow
Parliamentarian: Haley
Advanced Technology Expert/Computer Technician: Colter (Blog Updater)

1. Take Attendance/Initiate Roles.
2. Decide on leadership book.
3. Examine/Edit Group Charter/Rules
4. Assign next weeks roles.
5. Briefly review/comment on last weeks discussion.
6. Report Progress on Goal A/B
7. Continue brainstorming ideas for Goal A/B.
8. Schedule a out-of-class meeting(s) and/or mission(s) for our group
(5 MINUTES BEFORE END OF MEETING)



sorry for the late post.

03/05/09 Metting summary

Hey guys,
I will have the meeting layout ready for our class tommorow. Sorry I haven't posted it yet. I may post it later tonight but so far our groups goals are just starting out so I don't beleive it is extremely necessary to post a full meeting summary 24 hrs. before.

As for preparation, please just continue with brainstorming ideas and write any down that you might forget. Thanks.

-Rafa

Mission Statement

Our group is a thriving, dedicated bunch of young people working toward accomplishing our goals while developing better communication skills. Reaching out to the community is our passion! We feel that the only way we can accomplish this is by using good organizational skills and time management, achieving true group synergy, and most of all by continuing to respect each other.

Fundraising

As far as fundraising ideas Gary and I were thinking of doing a closest to pin at the golf courses we are affiliated with. Since we belong to different courses we could possibly have one at both courses. This is a goog way to get money.

So about fund-raising ideas....
I'm not so sure how the walk-a-thon works...
But a steak sandwich sounds good to me. Also, I will try to talk one of my bosses into providing some shirts/sweatshirts or climbing passes for the scholarship fund-raising. If that doesn't work, we could try talking to Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company for some beans/gift cards.

-Climbing deals
-Coffee?

What ya think?

Also, here is an idea for our logo. Of course it needs work, but this is a start.

Fundraising Idea's for Cx Scholarship

Hey guys. Go ahead and list any ideas that you may have so that we have a starting point to elaborate on next week... Good Times.

Here are some suggestions that I have already heard come up through discusion/came up with that I know about:

1. Steak Sandwhich Sale
2. "A-Thon" Event- Ex. Walk-A-Thon, Dance-A-Thon, etc.
3. On campus dodgeball tournament. Funds come from team entry fee.
4. Raffle

That's all that I have heard of/came up with that I can think of right now. I will add more when I think of them.

*VERY IMPORTANT: I was able to find out the Cabrillo College Tax ID #. This is awesome because this will make getting donations SO much easier. All we will need to do is write up a document that explains who we are, and what our purpose is.

Minutes For Feb. 26, 2009

Chair: Marko
Parliamentarian: Tom
Minutes: Colter

Attendance: All present

Rules of Group:

• One chair a week,
• Chair writes the agenda,
• Minutes are done by someone different then Chair,
• Attendance: Two unexcused results in departure from group
• Outside meetings must have minutes posted on blog
• Order in group must be controlled by chair/keeper-on-tracker
• Be aware of info. on blog 24 hours before Thursday class
  

Group Charter:
"Gary is taking of charter to be reported next Thursday"

Schedule for Next Meeting, March 5th, 2009:

Chair: Rafa
Parliamentarian: Haley
Minutes: Yarrow

Job Responsibilities:

Maintain close communications with group.

Goal #1/Team A: Marko, Colter, Haley
Marko: Going to senate for $1500 for Spring fling. Come in force to show collectiveness. Need to interview Skye. Hand outs for senators for Spring Fling. What meeting to attend, dates , time, people

Goal#2/Team B: Tom, Rafa, Gary, Yarrow, Kraig
Fund raising committee (Tom), Scholarship criteria, Group will meet after class(Feb. 26 2009)

Ran out of time but Rafa is going to look into leadership book

Agenda for February 26

Over-achievers Agenda February 26th meeting

1. Attendance and contact info. check.

2. Decide schedule for chairing meetings, job responsibilities, etc.

3. Goal #1 ($1500 for Spring Fling)

a. interview Skye for facts and figures to use in presentation

b. develop detailed presentation for student senate

c. decide which meeting to attend, gather classmates, approach senator to sponsor item.

4. Goal #2 ($500 scholarship)

a. fund-raising ideas

b. scholarship details and eligibility written

5. Final Decision on Leadership Book

6. Agenda Building and immediate goals for next meeting

7. Adjourn.

(Marko chair for this first official meeting)

Good To Be On Board

Hey everyone! I think I'm getting the hang of this? Like the Blog, its looking very solid.

K, I think I've got it, yeah? Can you see this?

minutes from 1st meeting

Hi Everyone and welcome to the Blog.

Meeting Minutes:

After much discussion we decided on 2 goals for the group.

Goal #1 is to raise money for the renting of the theater for the Spring Fling. Our goal is $1500. We will do this by contacting the Student Senate as well as other groups on campus who may wish to support this event.

We must prepare a detailed breakdown with facts, figures and talking points for our presentation to the senate. First step is to interview Skye regarding past Spring Flings.
(questions dealing with attendance, diversity, costs, student learning outcomes, etc.)

Goal #2 is to present a special scholarship which will go to a young person who currently is not eligible for the BOG but also receives minimal help from parents or guardians.

Committee members must develop a rubric for grading the applicants. (need, grades, age, comm. skills, etc). A plan to promote the scholarship should be devised as well as a detailed fund-raising plan to gain the money.

The idea was floated of a BBQ on campus. (steak sandwiches, hamburgers, etc.)

Would Pepsi donate drinks?

Finally the leadership book was discussed. We are leaning toward the "21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" (256 pages) Available on Amazon for $2 plus shipping.

Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0785274316/ref=dp_olp_1

Questions, disputes, or other comments should be posted here.

Thanks one and all for a great first meeting.

Marko

What up ya all? I cannot find the "semester long projects" to print out. Any idea where they are at?

tuesday

new post

I think I did it correctly... we shall see... good times.

Am I doing this correctly?

Welcome!!

Cabrillo overachievers this is our first blog entry. Let's come up with ways to really blow Skye out of the water!!