Meeting Minutes January 22, 2025

 

Writers Guild meeting minutes for January 22, 2025

There were 12 members in attendance: Tajane, Chloe (new member), Devon (new member), Caleb, Allyra, Sheli, Kiera, Dave, Amare, Cindy, Sania and Jo (come to visit us again) 😊 Welcome new members!

We did the meet and greet, then talked business stuff:

·         We needed volunteers for Welcome Bash. Thank you Tajane, Laisha, Jayla, and Amare! (Hope I didn’t miss anyone). They recruited about 30 more people!

·         We need volunteers to be in a play on Feb 19 at noon. Caleb volunteered to play MLK Jr., a new member, Trynity wants to volunteer also. Does anyone else want to play Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, or Toussaint Couverture? ESOL Professor Dianna Ramos will give you a script that you can read.

We did an activity where we practiced pulling in the reader. Many of you write and forget the reader can’t picture what you see. So, we worked on not just telling a story, but to make a story relevant to the reader.

The next meeting is Wednesday February 5 at 4pm in the library, room 211.

Please send activity ideas for the upcoming meetings.

·         People asked if we could do a Guild War again

·         Another idea is to create a commercial for the Guild

Important! I am working on getting Teams to work during our meetings. I promise I will get the link right for the next meeting.

 

Meeting Minutes January 9, 2025

 

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 01/09/2025

There were 10 members at the meeting: Jacob Sania, Ryan, Tajane, Mark, Gerald (new member), Violet, Caleb, Jonathan, and Brandi (substituted as sponsor because Cindy was out)  

At the meeting

·         We had a meet and greet

·         Jacob, our Treasurer talked about the budget and a fundraiser

·         Members talk about what they created during the break.

Next meeting, we will talk about getting volunteers for the Welcome Bash and Byways

·         What is creativity mean to you?

·         What would you like to do with your creativity?

·         Ideas for this semester's meetings

Out of Group Activity

·         Start thinking about what you want to submit to Byways if you are a CTC student or were one Summer, Fall 2024 or this semester.

Next meeting January 22 at 4 pm.

Later gators!

Meeting minutes 12/11/24

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 12/11/2024

We had 20 members in attendance: Tajane, Devon, Ryan, Jacob, Dale, Sean, Sheli, Kiera, Jessica, Mark, Madison, Jayla, Caleb, Violet, Amare, Jonathan, Edward, Sania and Cindy (did I leave anyone out?)

• We ate junk food and played games.

• I attached the 2025 schedule.

• Congratulations to all of our graduates! We’re proud of you!

• Work on your Nanoramobazamo during the break.
  

• Stay in touch in Discord. If you need the link again, let me know.

Please have an amazing and safe holiday season and we’ll see each other next year!

Meeting minutes 12/4/2024

 Writers Guild Meeting Minutes – 12/4/2024

There were 20 members in attendance: Jonathan, Jayla, Jennifer, Madison, Violet, Amare, Mark, Tajane, Donald, Dave, Sheli, Jessica, Roman, Gina, William, Jacob, Caleb, Judah and Cindy

We voted in 2 new officers:

Jonathan is President

Jacob is Treasurer

Congratulations!

We want to wish our graduates well and will miss them! We know you will do great in your life journey!

In this meeting, we focused on working on our creative areas and gave feedback.

We discussed preparing for Byways. Here’s the Byways registration and information: https://www.ctcd.edu/academics/library/byways/ Let Cindy know if you have questions.

Our next meeting is on December 11 at 4 pm. Bring snacks to share. I’ll bring some board games and let’s talk and have fun!

 

Reminder: I will be switching over to using Microsoft Teams and Webex will go away. There’s more members that didn’t get an invitation, so I will be sending those out in the next couple of weeks. Make sure to download it.

2025 info: I attached the 2025 meeting dates. Times still  4-5:30 pm in Room 211 in the CTC Library. 

 

Poems about the National Debt: a Partnership between the CTC Writers Guild and Net Impact

What we think of the National Debt

Growing heavier

Each year on the shoulders of

Our Grandchildren

by Mark R.

The debt grows slowly

Chains tying down the power

Of our nation

by Mark R. 

Sunk into the depths

Money spent that was never held

A debt of depths

by Ryan N. 

Money Overflows

Debt is insurmountable

It must be stopped now

by Amare D. 

Selfishness corrupts

Out comes propaganda from 

Illegal funding

by Judah K.

The U.S. Federal debt keeps

Skyrocketing, generation after generation

Society cares more about themselves

Than to the health of the country

by Laisha C.

Neverending Loss

Inflating like a balloon

The National Debt

by Shelianne M. 

National Debt weight

is overwhelmingly great 

How will we survive?

by Nathaniel R.

Writers Guild Meeting Minutes 11/13/2024 (if you read it all the way through, you will find an amazing thing!)

 

Writers Guild 11/14/24

There were 28 members in attendance: Judah, Laisha (new member), Jadan, Madison, Kiera, Sheli, Jonathan, Ryan, Jacob, Logan (new member) Tajane, Christina (our Net Impact friend), Isabella, Gina, Mark, Amare, Caleb, Roman, Jayla, Sania, Nathaniel, Jennifer (new member), Jessica, Max, Sean, Kim, Edward, and Cindy

Announcements were made.

1) We need elves for Lighting of the Bell Tower Dec 3 from 6-8pm.

• Let Cindy know if you want to work it. 
• She will need your phone number. (Email it to her - don't reply to this email). 
• So far we have Judah, Sheli and Amare.
• You may get some type of elf shirt if you work.
• I’ll let everyone know.

2) Gina will be graduating, so we will have a Presidential election at the next meeting.

• Gina, you've been awesome and we'll miss your leadership!

3) The next meeting is on Wednesday Dec 4 at 4pm.

• We had to reschedule it because in 2 weeks we are in Thanksgiving break.

4) Our last meeting on Dec 11 will be a holiday party.

• Bring snacks and we can play games and have fun.

5) Haunted House/Fall Festival people, read the text I sent! I need an answer. 😊

 

For In-Guild activity:

• We played a one-word story game

• Then we created Haikus

• Some made Haikus about the National Debt and gave them to Christina for Net Impact

• We discussed the National Writing Contest and decided to do one from Friday Dec 13 to Jan 6 or you can start now and be done on Jan 6

• We realized we had new members so did the Meet and Greet later in the meeting

 

For Out-of-Guild activity:

Gina suggested that everyone work on answering the college question: “Tell us who you are.”

If anyone needs the Discord link, send a separate email to me. Laisha and Jennifer, I'll send you one. 

Amazing thing, I promised:

You are all amazing, inspiring, and creative! We are so glad that you are in our Guild! 

Later, gators, 

Meeting Minutes Oct 16, 2024

 

Writers Guild meeting Minutes 10/7/24

There were 32 members in attendance: Gina O, Jacob, Judah, Madison, Sheli, Keira, Caleb, Jonathan, Skyler, Ellie, Jayla, Randy, Jessica T, Laisha (visitor), Mark, Jeremiah, Edward, Isabella, Thomas, Roman, Gina M., Gina M’s Mom, Amare, Max, Cody (visitor), Christina (visitor), Nathaniel, Sean, Sania, Violet, Savannah, and Cindy

·         We did a brief introduction

• ·         We broke up in clan groups: musicians, artists, writers, poets, and video makers
• ·         Our activity was to create a fantasy video with input from each clan
• ·         Our guild war winners were our observers. 😊 Congratulations!

We made a Haunted House actor change, and briefly discussed that.

• ·         If you’re working it or the Fall Festival, please read the email I sent earlier this week.

Then, Net Impact asked the guild to participate in a National Debt Matters to You campaign.

• ·         Here’s more info:
• ·         https://youtu.be/c-19TrJfx7I?si=NQZwCi_9J0DvHpCm
• ·        https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nationaldebt
• ·         They asked us to submit writing and art depicting our thoughts on national debt
• ·         Deadline Oct 31 (Halloween).
• ·         Send your submissions to: development.nictc@gmail.com

Rotating Student Art Exhibit Contest

• ·         Deadline next Wednesday, Oct 23:
• ·         Info https://d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/accounts/203141/images/Rotating_Student_Art_Exhibit_contest.jpg.
• ·         Registration: https://forms.gle/RK6pmRwFqP2fWiy48
• ·         Must be a CTC student to enter.

Our next meeting is October 30 at 4pm, the library, room 211

See you then!