Second meeting:

Club structure, goals, plans

Hasan Alhaddad, PhD

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Sheno Bensawy ☺ 1. What went on the first meeting? 2. Lessons from history 3. Long-term goals 4. Short term goals 5. General objectives and activities 6. Calendar 7. Club structure:

1. ROAD team 2. A team 3. C team 4. YOU team

8. To be done immediately 9. Election! HAGenetics.org

First meeting – Rules!

1. Focus on science and education 2. No involvement with administrative work 3. No show-off 4. Collaboration not competition 5. Have fun! 6.  Objectives and goals 7.  Involve all programs 8. Organize 9. Schoolwork

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Attendees of the first meeting

Thanks

Huda Alaskar

Zainab Dashti Fatm Ahmed hejazi

Arwa Ayman Afana

Ali Aashour Husain

Abdullah Alawam Abbas Adel Raram

Fajer Ahmed Alghamdi

Sakina Haider Behbahani

Mariam Hatim Nassar

Maha Faisal Alkharji

Nada Meshal Alghareeb

Tasneem Emad Maraqa

Fatma Hamdan Alresheedi

Amnah Fadel Alali Fay Faisal Alhajri

Amal Mahmoud Dashti

Fahad Alinzy

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Lessons from history

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Lessons from history

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Long-term goals

1. Transform the club into a scientific society that serves a vibrant scientific community.

2. Inform older generations of the public about biological concepts and inspire younger generations to study biological sciences.

Members of KUB club can later add more long-term goals

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Short-term goals 1. Help students academically.

2. Provide students with a medium to gain experience in organizing and carrying out activities.

3. Provide students with a medium to learn and share biology.

4. Cleanse the scientific atmosphere in KU from the poisonous and artificial divisions between biology programs within the biology department.

Members of KUB club can later add more short-term goals

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General objectives and activities

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1.  Organize and attend seminars. 2.  Organize and attend journal clubs. 3.  Organize frequent competitions:

poetry, songs, art etc. 4.  Organize book clubs. 5.  Organize workshops. 6.  Organize personal development

seminars. 7.  Establish KUB Club store: t-shirts,

books etc. 8.  Help and guide students with

academic work. 9. Make better use of social media outlets. Instagram,

twitter, blog etc (use hash tags that define the club example #KUB_Club and week activity #Kuwait_flora).

General objectives and activities

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•  How can we bring to life these objective and activities?

•  Where do we start?

•  How do we to start?

•  When do we start?

Calendar

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1. A preplanned and defined calendar should be the anchor of the activities of KUB Club.

2. The academic calendar gets designed by dividing the entire year into weeks (this includes summer and holidays) and assigns each week a topic.

3. The topics should be unifying the 5 programs and thus should be general and based on biological concept or general academic concepts.

4. Select activities that fit the theme of the week concept (seminar about the topic etc.)

Topics for KUB club calendar The topics for each week in KUB club calendar should be

general and unifies all five programs within the department.

The cell

Taxonomy

Reproduction Phylogeny

Genetics Ecosystem

Biological relationships: competition, mutualism, parasitism etc.

Model organisms

Evolution Bioinformatics

Developmental biology

Life cycle

Proteins

Kuwait flora

Kuwait Fauna

Desert ecosystem

Marine ecosystem

Immunology

Population biology Cell cycle

DNA

Disease biology Chemical structure Population genetics

Giants of biology KU research

KISR research

Professors Say

Students Say

Personal development

Teaching styles

Learning styles Studying styles

Biology department week: courses, programs etc.

Biology department staff week Biology department faculty week

Biology department student week

Stem cells

Nutrition

Forensics

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Club structure

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YOU team

ROAD team

A team C team

ROAD team

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1. ROAD team is the Representation, Organization, Assessment, and Development team (ROAD team).

2. As the name of the team indicates, this team is the official representative of the club and its members.

3. The names of the five members of this team will be submitted to the university’s administration.

ROAD team

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4.  It is the duty of this team to organize the club and ensure that every activity is carried out according to the goals and objectives.

5.  The team should meet frequently to assess the performance of the club.

6.  Lastly, it is the team responsibility to develop strategies to achieve the club’s goals.

ROAD team

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Senior team leader Junior team leader

Director of records and statistics Director of finances

Director of student affairs

A team

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1.  The A team is the Action team.

2.  This team is responsible for conducting the overall activities of the club.

3.  This team has unlimited number of members.

4.  The number of members depends on the number of activities conducted.

A team

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Team Leader Instagram manager

Twitter manager FaceBook manager

Blog/Website manager Events manager 1 Events manager 2

C team

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1. The C team is the Creativity team.

2.  This team is the think tank of the club.

3. Its main purpose to come up with ideas to help the other teams.

4. One of the members will be the leader of this team.

5. This team would be composed of five members.

C team

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Member from Biochemistry

Member from Microbiology

Member from Molecular Biology

Member from Plant Science

Member from Zoology

YOU team

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1. YOU team is you team !.

2. This is the most important team in KUB club.

3. As the name implies this is your team. Yes, a team composed of you and acts for you.

4. As a result, everybody is a member of this team including the members of the other teams.

YOU team

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YOU

YOU team responsibilities

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1. Participating as much as you can in the club’s activities.

2. Following the club’s accounts on twitter, instagram, facebook.

3. Visiting the club’s blog once in a while.

4. Leaving a comment at posts made by the (A) team in (facebook, instagram, blog etc.).

5. Re-tweeting and favorite-ing the tweets of the club’s account.

6. Like instagram posts and mention your friends.

7. Attending events such as seminars, workshops, trips, movies etc.

YOU team responsibilities

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8. Participating in journal and book clubs.

9.  Sharing your love for science and biology with the club members by using a unified simple hash-tag (#KUBclub) on your own posts and tweets. This will enable other members to see your personal contribution as well as enable the (A) team to repost your post on the club’s account and mentioning you. That will allow you a moment of fame if you are looking for it.

10. Encouraging your social circles (friends and family) especially the young ones to follow the club’s activities and accounts.

YOU team responsibilities

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11.  Contributing designs and artwork to the club.

12.  Submitting your Thoughts, Concerns, Complains (TCCs), and suggestions to the ROAD team.

13.  Being proud to study biology and a happy member of the club.

14.  Studying hard to be a good scientist.

To be done immediately

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1. Select the representatives of each team.

2. Change the name of the club to an easier and a catchy name. Hasan suggests using Kuwait University Biology Club (KUB Club). This name is short, rhymes, and is easy to remember and use for social media purposes.

3. Use the name of the club as a hash-tag that unifies all of the clubs social media activities.

4. Finalize a calendar with each week devoted for a specific concept or topic.

5. Set a competition to design a simple logo for the club.

To be done immediately

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6. Design bins for the teams. Design a large number of YOU team bins. Everybody should get this bin if they like.

7. Need to get finances log file and receipt book.

8. Establish ways of communication between the members of each team and between teams.

9. The plans put for the club are more important at this stage than the activities.

10. Focus should be on the development of a strong plan and understanding the responsibilities of each team.

Election/Selection – ROAD team

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Senior team leader Junior team leader

Director of records and statistics Director of finances

Director of student affairs

Election/Selection – A team

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Team Leader Instagram manager

Twitter manager FaceBook manager

Blog/Website manager Events manager 1 Events manager 2

Election/Selection – C team

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Member from Biochemistry

Member from Microbiology

Member from Molecular Biology

Member from Plant Science

Member from Zoology

Election/Selection – YOU team

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ARE YOU IN?

My job is done. Now yours

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