TAG Meeting Minutes: May 17, 2013

People:

Maria, Fletcher, Izanna, Benji, Alex, Zoe, Maya, Kira, Jordan, Angela

Percy Jackson Plan:

Start out by dividing all participants into either Romans or Greeks Five gods will have activities, Hades, Ares, Apphrodite, Posidean and Zues

Hades: Treasure Hunt Tag

                -start point and end point (door to underworld)

                -person as Hades to be tagger

                -pick up treasure on the way

                -person with most treasure in the end wins

TAG Minutes: April 13th and 26th

TAG April 13^th and 26^th Minutes

May Events

·      Blackout Poetry May 17^th 7pm

·      Bake Sale at Ames Public Library, May 18^th 10-12pm

o   Volunteers needed!

·      Friends Foundation Meeting May 9^th

o   Maria and Zoe

·      Next TAG meeting May 11^th

o   Voting for one new co-president

o   Characteristics of a good co-president: availability, sense of humor, creative, consistent involvement and dedication, where do you see TAG in the future?

Summer Events listed below are all at Bandshell Park, 4pm

·      Percy Jackson, June 12^th

·      Tie-dye, June 19^th

·      Carnival, June 26^th

·      Harry Potter, July 10^th

·      The Hobbit, July 24^th

·      The Hobbit Movie at APL, July 31^st

Tag Meeting Minutes, 3/15/13

TAG Minutes

March 15, 2013
Present: Eunice, Caitlyn, Maria, Jenny, Caleb, Izanna, Benji, Fletcher, Angela, Alexander, Zoe, Mya

• Volunteers signed up to attend Friends Foundation Meetings--this is to prevent confusion about who will be attending the meetings.  If you sign up but can't make it, just let the group know.  At least one person from TAG should be in attendance each month.
• April 11 -- Zoe and Mya wil attend
• May 9 -- Maria and Zoey will attend (and maybe Jenny)
• May program -- Blackout poetry and Madlibs
• SUMMER PROGRAMS!!!!  TAG came up with basically the best ideas ever
  
• Rock the Library -- still need a date.  Friday, August 16?
• Harry Potter party celebrating Bill & Fleur's wedding!
• This will be a dance, but maybe with other stuff too?
• Last program of the summer
  
• Hobbit party!  Smaug treasure / scavenger hunt with obstacles
• Possibly have to compete in some obstacles wearing cheap flip flops?
• Have Kris dress up as Smaug for the final obstacle
• Percy Program!  We probably want this to be our kickoff event.  Ideas
• separate everyone into Roman vs. Greek, then separate further into separate cabins
• maybe have a test that divides everyone into their cabins
• have mini-events that you compete in to earn points that go towards your final score
• could also have extra water balloons to use in final battle as rewards
• use pool noodles
• the last battle is a water balloon capture the flag -- if you get hit, you're frozen until tagged by a teammate OR....you die
• The end.

Literary Costumes

So it's not quite time for Halloween (the BEST holiday, in my opinion), but it is almost time for VEISHEA.  Some of you TAG peoples have asked for book costume ideas, so here you go.  I REALLY want someone to dress like Captain Underpants, though I suspect that, as the owner of a pair of nude-colored leggings, that "someone" is going to be me...

Upcoming Stuff: Earth Day

April means Earth Day!  Also National Poetry Month, Arbor Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Tax Day, Record Store Day (so awesome), April Fool's Day, Jazz Appreciation Month, and Administrative Professionals' Day!  I know everyone is dying to have a wild celebration in honor of admin professionals, but I think at APL we'll just stick to Earth Day and National Poetry Month (I myself am a huge fan of both trees and poems, although I am less a fan of poems about trees).

I derive a lot of satisfaction from recycling and upcycling and making cool stuff out of junky stuff, because a)you save something from being tossed and creating more waste on our planet; b)you can make and own something that no one else has; c)your DIY skills and planet-saving savvy will impress that cute kid you've been eyeing; and d)making stuff is probably a better use of my time than watching cat videos on YouTube (or is it...*).

Anyone have any ideas of stuff you'd like to recycle into other stuff sometime in April at APL?  I kind of like these things:

*Yes. yes it is