Stepping Up:Conference Call - November 13 2008

Thanks Nikhita for the notes!

Attendance

Present: Lia, Nikhita, Mubdi, Adil, Tanielle, Kartik

Recent Sci-Tech conference where regional fairs from Ontario came to Toronto to discuss
Calgary focus group - people went through every single page and talked about what needs to be changed
The guide is very successful so far, BASEF mentioned that they use Stepping Up as a major resource for science fair presentations

At the Toronto focus navigation issues group, one team will just be working on fixing these and deciding on how the guide will look like
Develop English presentations
Work on navigation and divide into separate groups to work on navigation, podcasts, and presentation

Topics for presentations will be chosen at the focus group
English presentations will be developed at Toronto focus groups
French presentations at Montreal focus group
Will also develop presenter notes so people can basically use presentation and notes to deliver the presentation
Expected to finish 2 presentations by end of Toronto session

5-10 podcasts where alumni discuss certain topics
at the focus groups, there will be time to rehearse prior to actually taping them
not necessarily scripted out, keep exciting and make into discussion
hoping to finish 3 podcasts by the end of Toronto work session

Discussed at Calgary, will also discuss in Toronto and Montreal
Pre-Canada Wide web cast
The basic idea is that there will be brief videos to get people excited about Canada Wide and ISEF, have an alumni panel, Stepping Up presentation, going through a run through of what to expect at the Canada Wide Science Fair
Filming will be done in Toronto, some travel allowances to get some people down to Toronto for the filming
On the web cast screen, there will be an IM system for interactive questions so they can ask alumni questions right there
Hoping for a studio audience, hoping to host in the CBC or Discovery Channel studios – nothing set in stone

One of our goals is to improve the guide
Mubdi will be compiling the list of suggested areas to edit sent in by people and sending after Montreal so anyone can work on it online
Anecdote additions to each section as a possibility as a “moral of the story” thing to lighten up the mood in the guide
Think about possible promotional material to give out at fairs . . . pens?