Date:         Mon, 2 Nov 1998 03:36:37 EST
From: Melissa Hao <mhao@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      minutes for Oct 28 meeting
To: CTY-BOSTON@MATTABABY.DYN.ML.ORG

No, I haven't fallen off the face of this planet.  Here are last
week's minutes:

We started off with introductions.  It was nice to see so many new
faces.  Judging from the squeals of recognition upon hearing Squeaky's
name, many people are from Lancaster.

Anna briefly went over the revised constitution, which despite being
vague in parts (out of necessity), met with everyone's approval.  Then
we discussed another ASA requirement of how a certain percentage of
people must be from MIT.  It was pointed out that we could leave
non-MIT people off our roster to make the numbers come out nicely.

Matthew brought up the topic of having a rotating officer.  That way, one
person wouldn't have to be responsible for organizing all the
meetings.  Anna asked if anyone else wanted to organize the next
meeting; noone responded.  The three meetings times that Matthew decided
had the least conflicts were:  Wed 7ish (bad for a few), Fri 6 (out of
the question), and Sun 6 (bad for a few).  Matthew mentioned that we
could change the constitution to allow for officer rotation.

Then came a discussion of zephyr instances and classes and
subscriptions.  Zephyr is a service available to MIT students that
allows people to chat with each other.  I will duplicate Matthew's
previous instructions here for your zephyring convenience:

        to subscribe:           zctl add cty \* \*
        to send a message:      zwrite -c cty -i instance

        where instance is a subject, like "food" or "squeaky".

        to unsubscribe:         zctl delete cty \* \*

These instructions will be posted to the homepage (again, for your
bookmarking convenience:
http://www.mattababy.dyn.ml.org/CTY/People/Boston/)

Back to Anna's revised constitution: basically, our purpose involves
teaching and being taught.  Matthew summarized his conversation with Owen
Ozier, director of ESP, which he mentioned in an earlier email.  There
is a ten week program in the spring called High School Studies
Program.  Owen said that it is possible to screen students by perhaps
interviewing them beforehand.  Matthew repeated that his two math friends
at Harvard who are willing to teach a course.  He would like to know
if anyone is willing to TA (if so, please tell Matthew).

Seeing as how our purpose revolves around teaching and gifted
children, fortunately, there was someone in our presence who is
experienced with just that.  The other Anna spent some time talking
about ESP, and how to possibly integrate ESP and CTY.  For instance,
there's a one-time event called Splash coming up, which is great if
you're interested in teaching and want to pick up experience.  One of
the neat things about Splash is that you can volunteer to teach
*anything*.  ESP also sponsors SAT prep, which incidentally is the
only ESP program that pays its teachers/tutors.  There are two
relevant summer programs: a class that would teach the equivalent of
an AP course, and an intensive nightly MIT freshman course.  Anna
strongly encourages people to participate in ESP.

Anna #1 likes this idea.  She brings up the idea of a joint CTY/ESP
meeting.  Anna #2 says that ESP isn't big on meetings - they split up
into groups based on activites, and each group works seperately.
However, Anna #2 could drag some of the officers to a CTY meeting.
Anna #2 has handed out a packet of materials on ESP, including a
teaching application.

Matthew would like to teach a neuroscience course.  Is anyone willing to
TA?  If someone helps him, then he could teach a computer science
course, also.

Lisa, who spoke with Nancy Leaderman from the Baltimore office (and who
taught CS at CTY last summer), is wondering on behalf of Nancy if
anyone has any input on the course's curriculum.  The reason she's
inquiring is because people had a difficult time teaching the course
this year.  (Matthew speculates as to why...)

Finally, we come to the issue of our name.  Should we call ourselves
some boring official-sounding name, or something fun like your
favoriate expansion of "CTY"?  The consensus seems to be that we
offically call ourselves the former, but in reality we can call
ourselves whatever we want.

till next time
Melissa