Lunch Bunch Tuesday, December 8, 2015 12:30pm | T119 AEG – not represented African American Student Union – not represented Apple Core – not represented Art Club Art Club hosted a pumpkin carving event in October. Art Club members attended an Aluminum Casting Workshop at artist Jeff Swift's Studio in November. Students are participating in a Printmaking Workshop in December. Art Club donated art supplies for children in need for Christmas gifts. ASL Club – not represented Business Forum Heard from guest speakers Mr. Ryan Hasenaurer, Director of Marketing at OTB and Mr. Jim Morelli, Governmental Sales person from Milton Cat in Batavia. Resume writing contest will be April 14, 2016. Sponsored both CASA & Salvation Army Christmas gift donations Ducky Derby contest for United Way will be Thursday, March 10, 2016. CAB This week is stress free week! o Today at 3pm there will be stress free bingo in S-103 sponsored by the counseling center. Tonight at 7pm in the Union we will have a comedian, Ashley Gavin. o Wednesday during the day we will have therapy dogs in @-103 during the day. Come play with them and de-stress. We will be having other activities throughout the afternoons to take your mind off of classes. Every night in S- 103, PTK is sponsoring a study lounge. We are looking to moving our meetings to Monday nights next semester. 1 CEO CEO Club is looking forward to hosting more speakers in the spring semester. Our next speaker is Barb Shine, an entrepreneur and former GCC faculty member, who will be here on Thursday, February 11th. For more information on CEO Club, please contact a current member or Amy Conley. College Village Holiday party coming up Next semester we are looking to do more educational programming (diversity awareness, etc.) Computer Repair – not represented Cougarettes – not represented Courier – not represented Criminal Justice T-shirt order – delivered. Going to sell navy short sleeve shirts Bought gifts for two children through the CASA program Went to lunch at Tully’s last week for the holidays Meetings will start again in January – Thursdays at 12:30 in C301 CSU Club Previous Events: November 13th-15th, BASICcon- Ten CSU Club members attended the BASIC conference held at the Rochester Holiday Inn. This was our 4th year attending the conference along with over 700 WNY young adults who enjoyed bands, speakers, tours of downtown Rochester & some of the best food it has to offer! November 19th & December 3rd, Care-A-Van Ministries at the College Village- CSU Club members helped Care-A-Van as they went door to door at the dorms to hand out free food and connect with the students to let them know our community cares about them. November 22nd, Thank you to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church- St. Pauls has faithfully came along side of CSU Club for the last 8 years, providing free lunches several times a semester and helping at every Club Fair event with free give-a-ways, etc. They truly care about the students at GCC and strive to find ways to bless them! As a thank you to the congregation, CSU club members took turns expressing their gratitude to the congregation during the morning service. December 4th, CSU Club’s “1st Friday Nights” Event in the Student Union- CSU had over 30 attend this event. We enjoyed coffee, pizza, soda, and games. We built gingerbread houses and decorated Christmas cookies. Kristi Knutson won first prize for the ugliest Christmas sweater and Hanna Tischer won first prize at the “Carlton” dance competition (from the show, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air). 2 Upcoming Events: December 10th, 12:30pm – CSU Club’s final meeting for the Fall semester will be a Christmas luncheon with cookie decorating and more. DECA 50 more neck scarves should arrive by Dec. 23 Applied for an initiative grant to secure money to have more plaid fabric woven to create new products to sell Arranged for Prof. Ehrhart to serve as guest speaker in March for our Fashion Speaks series, her exhibit will appear in the Library and there will be a “high tea” and talk open to the public. Attempting to bring a headliner to campus to help us promote the 35th annual fashion show on Saturday, April 30, 2016. Sponsored both CASA & Salvation Army Christmas gift donations Earth Club – not represented Education Club Activity Day: The preschool children from the Day Care Center were our guests on Tuesday, November 24th. We learned about children through play! BOGO: The Education Club is in the planning stages of a “Buy One Give One Hope” Food Drive for area families. Stay tuned for more details. The Digital Arts students will be creating our logo. Breakfast with Santa at GCC: We participated in Breakfast with Santa at GCC on December 5th! We had a blast and had our picture taken with Santa! Breakfast with Santa at Jackson: We have been invited to participate in this event again. We will be providing craft activities for young children at Jackson School on Saturday, December 12th. CASA Holiday Gift Program: We will be providing holiday gifts for the CASA children. We would like clubs to sponsor a child. 45 children have been sponsored by individuals, clubs, programs and offices around the college. Fall Workshops: Several workshops are planned for this fall. o Authentic Assessment – 9/19/15 o Classroom Management – 10/16/15. o Learning Styles – 3 workshops offered (November – including College Village) o Don’t Dis My Ability – 12/3/15 Film Club We have been testing the new 4k camera and its many setting to make sure that we can figure out the most efficient way to get footage from the camera to the computer. We are also exploring what it is like to work with 4k footage on a HD monitor. We discovered that the current software on the mac is not compatible with 4k as well. Fine Arts – not represented 3 Forum Players – not represented Game Club – not represented Geeks-R-Us (Formerly Anime Club) – not represented Global Ed Movie “He Named Me Malala” on Thursday February 4 , 12:30-2:00 p.m., Stuart Steiner Theatre. Admission is Free On Thursday, March 3, during common hour, we are having a “ Classroom Experience Around the World” with International food tasting . More information to follow. Golden Zs – not represented GSA – not represented Here Comes Treble HCT just finished their semester with thief concert "A Night of Music" performing for the first time in GCC's theater. We had a wonderful turnout and we cannot wait for next year. The new appointed officers are Nathan and Lidia. History Club Fundraising: Oliver's candy bars sales wrapped up for the year. Sales whet great! Planning a 50/50 raffle next semester Maybe another history day/pizza sales Trips First trip of the semester will be to Niagara Falls Mt. Hope Cemetery other local historical sites will be visited Big trip to Gettysburg over spring break Others Working on setting up a scholarship between history students at GCC transferring to Brockport New lecture series line up out for Spring 2016 semester. ISO Our Ice Skating trip in November was a success. 32 people from 10 countries attended. Sports Night was also very well attended and we played games and ate Subway. We hosted a fundraiser at Merchant Cove in November, too. 4 Finally, ISO sponsored the Conversation Buddies Bake Sale in November just before Thanksgiving. We made about $75 and people had a chance to finish up their buddy hours for Mrs. K's classes. Literary Club We co-sponsored an Open Mic Night in the Student Union on Thursday, December 3. Our co-hosts are Student Activities and College Village. We thank them for their support. November was National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.) Aspiring writers got together on Thursday, November 12 and Thursday, November 19 to write and spend time with others who share a passion for words! Also, on Thursday, November 12, Literary Club participated in the successful program: GCC Reads…”I Am Malala” Last meeting of the semester is Thursday, December 10 at 1pm in Room B250. Multi-Cultural Comm. Minutes not received Native American Student Group We had our first meeting of the fall semester on November 20. It was an evening meeting that wasn’t as well attended as we had hoped. Our next meeting will be held during Common Hour. We are exploring possibilities for a speaker or other presentation for the general public during the spring semester. Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, December 10. It will be a Bring a Friend Pizza Party. New Age Circle Our last month has been pretty quiet with club members just getting together to discuss a variety of topics. We are also happy but sad that one of our members is transferring at the end of this semester to Empire State College to pursue a career in Art Therapy. Angelique Porey has been with us for 2 years and has been a creative and energetic member of the club during that time. We wish her all the best in this next chapter of her life. Nurses Club – not represented Office Tech Club – not represented Outdoor Adventure On Saturday, November 21st we went for a five mile hike at Mendon Ponds Park. The trip included a visit to the Wild Wings Raptor Rehabilitation Center in the park and hand-feeding wild chickadees alongside the trail. We postponed our indoor rock climbing trip since students are currently busy with end-of-semester studies. 5 At our last meeting of the semester we shared pizza and discussed how to dress appropriately for outdoor winter activities in Western New York.