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These abbreviated minutes were compiled by Cherlyn Bradley

The second planning committee meeting was held in Normal on April 24.  Reports from the various subcommittees were given.

Chong Zheng, Rock River Section, has reserved a 27-inch TV, computer equipment, and microphone system for use in the tent.

The committee discussed what to show in our exhibit and decided on an environmental theme.

We decided to have a photo slide show of kids having fun watching or participating in chemistry demos.  Chong volunteered to compile such photos submitted to him into a slide show and burn CD’s for each of us with the resulting show.

Frank Salter (Mark Twain Section) offered to assist with advice and resources for removing waste chemicals from the demos.  He will also donate a reasonable number of safety glasses for audience members to borrow while watching or participating in the demos.

Frank passed out a compilation of suggestions submitted for possible demos to use.  We agreed that he will select a few appropriate demos and submit them to the rest of the committee for consideration.

We decided it would be reasonable to try to set up volunteers for three 4-hour shifts/day, such as 8:00AM-12:00PM, 12:00PM-4:00PM, and 4:00PM-8:00PM.  We would like 4-6 volunteers for each time slot.  An on-line form to help people sign up was also considered worth pursuing.

Marsha Phillips indicated that the Chem West people will help with the show.  She also suggested a number of items that she would like to be able to put in a bag and hand to each teacher.  We would need donations of materials or money to acquire these materials in sufficient quantities to hand out.

We would also like to be able to burn 500 CD copies of the ChemShorts for Kids program from the Chicago website to hand out, but don’t know of an inexpensive, efficient way to do this.