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Marija Mihailovic
I have one more comment regarding this sentence:
"After a discussion between the volunteers and the communication departments of the different centers, it has been decided to have a single day: an Open Day with Darwin flavour!"
We are not volunteers!! We are very organized group called SMS, and there is a big difference between people that just helping us in realization of the day (volunteers), and people that dedicate much more time to organize everything. Please, keep it separate :-)
Cheers,
Marija
(first, could everybody check that he/she subscribed to the correst google groups, because some people didn't get the e-mail. Thanks!)
Hi !
Nice ! I would only clarify on your announcement the difference between organizers and volunteers.
What we need right now is people interested is the organisation process (thinking about the activity, make a defined plan, with a defined budget, and get ready for the D-Day) and the volunteers (who will be helping during the D-day).
Other point, personnaly, I would not recruit organizers for budget, volunteers, PRBB interactions and communication plan, as these activities don't require much people, and will mostly involve very specific people (as for communication plan and budget).
(I tried some corrections about this in your text....aiming to delete the word "volonteer", that will for sure confuse people. Tell me what you think about these).
Hi everyone,
As some of you may know, after last year's success there is an Open Day planned this year as part of the SMS activities. Also, as 2009 it's the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his famous book on the origin of species, there was an idea of doing something to celebrate this, a type of Darwin Day.
After a discussion between the volunteers and the communication departments of the different centers, it has been decided to have a single day: an Open Day with Darwin flavour!
We are "recruiting" motivated persons to help organising this Day !
That means motivated organisers to contribute to the preparation of every activities listed below (thinking about the activity, make a defined plan, with a defined budget, and get ready for the D-Day).
Date: Saturday 6th June 2009, all day.
Place: PRBB and PRBB inner square and Darwin square
What:
Posters – We need people to synchronize the posters session, announcing the basic science done at the different PRBB centers. These will be the same posters as last year, plus some new ones if new people volunteer to make posters on other areas that have not yet been covered – if so, they will need to email the contact person and ask for a template to prepare the poster, since they all have a common pattern.
Building visits – Organise visits to several laboratories inside the building, in small groups, explaining basic things. This will be based on last year, but trying to increase the number of visits.
Experiments – some easy experiments on the Darwin square, also as last year but this year they will be focused on Darwin, evolution, diversity, etc.
Darwin Exhibition – an interactive exhibition with posters, video, audio, games, etc. to tell people about Darwin as a man, his trip to Galápagos, his discoveries his book and his theory, the uses and abuses the theory of evolution has been subjected to since his time, and an explanation of what things nowadays are affected by evolution (including the research being done here).
Café científico – as last year there will be a café científico in the afternoon, and the theme will be something related to Darwin and/or evolution.
Theater play – there will be a theater play about the Oxford debate, in which Darwin's theory of evolution was discussed. We are organizing a theater group at the PRBB who will rehearse every week to present this play on the 6th of June – do you want to join??
Video projections – there will be a room in which people will be able to see some videos. The idea would be to mix documents about Darwin (also with images, interviews, etc.).
Help us make an Open Day even more successful than last year's!
Maruxa Martinez Campos
Redactora científica - Departament de Comunicació
Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona - PRBB
Tel.: (+34) 93 316 0013
Fax: (+34) 93 316 0019
Doctor Aiguader, 88 / Barcelona E-08003
www.prbb.org
Hi everyone! I hope you all get this! J
Here's the email I am planning to send tomorrow to all SMS people. I will also send this on the email that is sent to everyone on Fridays (prbb.net). Please let me know if I forgot something or there's something you want to change. I'll send it tomorrow lunchtime if I haven't heard from you before.
I suggest we meet again on the first week of Feb (Mon 2nd Feb at 5pm as today?) to check how many volunteers we have and decide who is going to be the contact person for each subgroup – perhaps we should invite all the new volunteers to that meeting? From then on the subgroups should meet individually…
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Hi everyone,
As some of you may know, after last year's success there is an Open Day planned this year as part of the SMS activities. Also, as 2009 it's the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his famous book on the origin of species, there was an idea of doing something to celebrate this, a type of Darwin Day.
After a discussion between the volunteers and the communication departments of the different centers, it has been decided to have a single day: an Open Day with Darwin flavour!
The proposal is the following:
Date: Saturday 6th June 2009, all day.
Place: PRBB and PRBB inner square and Darwin square
What:
Posters – posters announcing the basic science done at the different PRBB centers. These will be the same posters as last year, plus some new ones if new people volunteer to make posters on other areas that have not yet been covered – if so, they will need to email the contact person and ask for a template to prepare the poster, since they all have a common pattern.
Building visits – visits to several laboratories inside the building, in small groups and two volunteers explaining basic things. This will be the same as last year, so we will only need volunteers to do the visits on the day.
Experiments – some easy experiments on the square, also as last year but this year they will be focused on Darwin, evolution, diversity, etc. So we need volunteers to come up with new ideas for them!
Darwin Exhibition – an interactive exhibition with posters, video, audio, games, etc. to tell people about Darwin as a man, his trip to Galápagos, his discoveries his book and his theory, the uses and abuses the theory of evolution has been subjected to since his time, and an explanation of what things nowadays are affected by evolution (including the research being done here). We need volunteers to come up with ideas and do the actual stuff!
Café científico – as last year there will be a café científico in the afternoon, and the theme will be something related to Darwin and/or evolution. We need volunteers to choose subject and speakers and organize the logistics.
Theater play – there will be a theater play about the Oxford debate, in which Darwin's theory of evolution was discussed. We are organizing a theater group at the PRBB who will rehearse every week to present this play on the 6th of June – do you want to join??
Video projections – there will be a room in which people will be able to see some videos. If there are two rooms, one will be the same as last year (a chill out video with some nice scientific images) and the other one will be about Darwin (also with images, interviews, etc.). If there is only one room available, we will do a single video with both things.
Please go to this doodle to choose which of these groups you want to collaborate with. We will also need volunteers for:
Communication plan – we need volunteers who will be in charge of making sure all Barcelona is aware of what will happen on June 6th at the PRBB. This will include preparing leaflets, posters, etc. and lists of places to send them. It will be very similar to last year's so it won't be difficult!
Budget – do you have good organizational and mathematical skills? We need some people like you to oversee the general budget of all the subgroups!
Volunteers – if you are a sociable person, join us to be in charge of all the volunteers that will join from now on and help them get organized into the different subgroups.
Interaction with PRBB – the PRBB will organize some things (security, cleaning, etc.) but they need to be aware of all our moves! Will you help keeping them updated on all the things we need, so they can check each thing is possible, organize security, cleaning, and give us feedback.
Help us make an Open Day even more successful than last year's!
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Marija Mihailovic
Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Gene Regulation Program
C/ Dr Aiguader 88
08003-Barcelona
Spain
Phone: 0034-93-3160124
FAX: 0034-93-3969983