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Officers present:


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No

Beverly Murdock

Secretary


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Squirrl

President


X

John Dubelko

Treasurer

X


Christa Stern

Bookkeeper

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Attendance: 24 accounts signed on with 30 members present.

Meeting 

  • Introduce New Members! A large handful joined this past month!!
  • Host Comments - Jessee M filling in:
    • Events - go to #marketing in Slack
      • MagFest in January - We have hit our max number of volunteers and now need help prepping for the event. 
      • All Socials have been cancelled for 2024
    • New Equipment
      • UPDATE - New - Sublimation Printer and accessories - classes will start in 2024. If you would like to use it ahead of then, please contact Jessee (though please note that her schedule is already pretty packed, so you would be working around that)
      • New - Nova 51 & 24 Laser Cutters are running beautifully and Rotary Classes are coming soon! Advanced Classes will start late December or in 2024
      • New & Coming Soon - MS-L Metal Shop is undergoing a transformation right now, and I highly recommend taking a look! 
      • Transferred - the Universal Laser has been temporally moved to the lower building in Purcellville. Please see the #lasercutter channel for more information about precautions and such when using it.
    • We had an Empty Board of Directors Seat, and can now welcome Jennifer Chu has our newest Director! 
  • Education News (Diane Painter) 
    • Join the #k12educational Slack channel if you're interested in the youth education initiatives or want more on one of the information points below
    • Loudoun School Business Partnership Executive Council (SBP) that will host its annual career shadowing event, “Job For a Day” on November 6, 2023. The goal is for students to get an introductory and general experience to an industry, company, occupation, or overall career field.
    • There are industry resources that are free for teachers, parents and students wishing to explore clean energy topics while building STEM and critical thinking skills.
    • KidWind information meeting for parents will be organized toward the beginning of November.  We will begin KidWind activities again in December and they will run through mid-March with the aim to participate in the Northern VA KidWind Challenge at Shenandoah University on March 14.
  • Membership Report
    • 321 members (up by 11 from last month), 14 new members in last 30 days and 8 new members in last 7 days. We need more members ! ! ! !  If anyone has friend, acquaintance, relative that may be interested, send ’em our way.   Email us at info@makersmiths.org
  • Finances (John Dubelko) 

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