Sciences Teaching Club Budget

Donation from Biological Sciences Department to finance seminar speaker visits and honorarium for speaker.

Your JFC budget should only include expenses from the organization account. We have reason to believe that you are operating out of an departmental account. Please appeal with clarification.

Coffee and bagel fundraiser, will be held in the Mellon Institute.

Allocated to meeting food.

$25.00 per semester for general body meeting. For roughly 10 people.

The JFC will fund $100 per semester for food for rush/recruitment, $200 per semester for food at events, $5 per person per semester for food for general body meetings, and $15 per person per event for food at a cultural event, at a cap to 2 events.

$25.00 per semester to provide food for a group mixer. The purpose is to encourage club members from different departments to socialize, and we want to recruit more members from different departments. (usually for getting new members and advertizing)

The JFC will fund $100 per semester for food for rush/recruitment, $200 per semester for food at events, $5 per person per semester for food for general body meetings, and $15 per person per event for food at a cultural event, at a cap to 2 events.

Posters for advertisement of general body meetings, social events, seminars, and our book club.

$100.00 to purchase 10 books, at $10.00 a piece, "What the Best College Teachers Do" for members to read for a professional development book club. This will be paid for by the revenue we generate from our fundraising event. (these will stay with the group, so they are a capital expense)

Molecular biology kits for a teaching mentor event. We will host an outreach event each semester for local high school students who do not have access to cutting edge science and technology at their high school. The DNA amplification kit we purchased this year costs $160.00, and we plan to purchase the same one next year. This is the least expensive kit we could find. The total cost listed is for two kits because we need one for each of the two outreach visits we have planned.

Buccal swabs to isolate DNA from outreach participants, so they can amplify and analyze their own DNA. This year we plan to purchase buccal swabs that cost $98.00, and we plan to purchase the same ones next year. The total price, $196.00 is for two boxes of buccal swabs because we plan to do two outreach events and will need this amount of swabs to accommodate all of the participants.

Microcentrifuge tubes that will be used to perform DNA purification in during the high school outreach events.

Background checks with the state for working with schools. $20 per person for 15 people.

Refreshments during a reception after the seminar. This will be paid for by our donation revenue from the biology department.

The JFC will fund $100 per semester for food for rush/recruitment, $200 per semester for food at events, $5 per person per semester for food for general body meetings, and $15 per person per event for food at a cultural event, at a cap to 2 events.

Lodging for the seminar speaker. This will be paid for by our donation revenue from the biology department.

Reimbursement for mileage driven by the seminar speaker. Typically, we invite speakers from small undergraduate colleges or universities to speak about what it is like to have a teaching faculty position, and usually the speaker is within driving distance of Pittsburgh. This will be paid for by our donation revenue from the biology department.

Honorarium for the seminar speaker. This will be paid for by our donation revenue from the biology department.

We limit this to 25, but paying for it with revinue is acceptable.