Here's the 4-1-1 on the engineering school program we're working on. Today, we had another meeting with Christa. This was Frank's first exposure not only to the work we've been doing, but also with the style we run the meetings in. I'm sure he learned a lot. This meeting was very important. It proved to us that the Engineering school truly sees us as a long term sustainable source for international opportunities. In conversation about their future goals, Christa let it be known that AIESEC was an integral part of their long term strategy and action plan, designed to create a more international environment, rich with opportunity, for students. When we made a few of our suggestions, in regards to the survey, she was very accepting. This was important, as one of the things we wanted to clarify was that our name was going to be on the survey, displayed prominently, which it will be. Tied to that, Christa offered to put a link to our webpage on their Career Service webpage. How freakin awesome is that. Now we have a good reason to have a real webpage. The final and perhaps most important topic we discussed was that of finance. While nothing final was discussed in terms of price, it was very important to bring that topic back into the playing field. The next step is the collaborative meeting we're having Thursday July 6th, to finalize and send out the survey. After that, we have another meeting scheduled July 20th, to go over the output from the survey, and perhaps present a proposal breaking down some of the finances. Not yet scheduled, but there is a final meeting some time in August before IC, to lay out the game plan for the rest of the year. All in all, this meeting was very productive. It established a healthy partnership over the next few months, as well as breached a few touchy subjects, i.e. finances.

The things we need to do.
1. Make a damn good web page
a. Write a three sentence blurb to go with our link on the Career services webpage.
2. Write out the budget for this project, this includes conversations with Chris White.
3. Start developing the processes we want in place for this project.
a. Application process
b. screening process
c. marketing, etc.
4. Start thinking about how we're going to pitch this to people at IC (Pinar and Arthur, lucky son's of bitches).

How cool are we. Thats right, really cool. Keepin it realz

Luke B