A presentation for the establishment of a biology club at Kuwait University. Contains the detailed club structure, goals and plans

1. Second meeting:
Club structure, goals, plans
Hasan Alhaddad, PhD
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2. Sheno Bensawy ☺
1. What went on the first meeting?
2. Lessons from history
3. Long-term goals
4. Short term goals
5. General objectives and activities
6. Calendar
7. Club structure:
1. ROAD team
2. A team
3. C team
4. YOU team
8. To be done immediately
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3. First meeting – Rules!
1. Focus on science and education
2. No involvement with administrative work
3. No show-off
4. Collaboration not competition
5. Have fun!
6. Objectives and goals
7. Involve all programs
8. Organize
9. Schoolwork
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4. Attendees of the first meeting
Thanks
Huda Alaskar
Zainab Dashti
Fatm Ahmed hejazi
Arwa Ayman Afana
Ali Aashour Husain
Abdullah AlawamAbbas Adel Raram
Fajer Ahmed Alghamdi
Sakina Haider Behbahani
Mariam Hatim Nassar
Maha Faisal Alkharji
Nada Meshal Alghareeb
Tasneem Emad Maraqa
Fatma Hamdan Alresheedi
Amnah Fadel Alali
Fay Faisal Alhajri
Amal Mahmoud Dashti
Fahad Alinzy
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5. Lessons from history
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6. Lessons from history
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7. Long-term goals
1. Transform the club into a scientific society that
serves a vibrant scientific community.
2. Inform older generations of the public about
biological concepts and inspire younger generations
to study biological sciences.
Members of KUB club can later add more long-
term goals
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8. Short-term goals
1. Help students academically.
2. Provide students with a medium to gain experience in
organizing and carrying out activities.
3. Provide students with a medium to learn and share
biology.
4. Cleanse the scientific atmosphere in KU from the
poisonous and artificial divisions between biology
programs within the biology department.
Members of KUB club can later add more
short-term goals
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9. General objectives and activities
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1. Organize and attend seminars.
2. Organize and attend journal clubs.
3. Organize frequent competitions:
poetry, songs, art etc.
4. Organize book clubs.
5. Organize workshops.
6. Organize personal development
seminars.
7. Establish KUB Club store: t-shirts,
books etc.
8. Help and guide students with
academic work.
9. Make better use of social media outlets. Instagram,
twitter, blog etc (use hash tags that define the club
example #KUB_Club and week activity
#Kuwait_flora).

10. General objectives and activities
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• How can we bring to life these
objective and activities?
• Where do we start?
• How do we to start?
• When do we start?

11. Calendar
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1. A preplanned and defined calendar should be the anchor of
the activities of KUB Club.
2. The academic calendar gets designed by dividing the
entire year into weeks (this includes summer and holidays)
and assigns each week a topic.
3. The topics should be unifying the 5 programs and thus
should be general and based on biological concept or
general academic concepts.
4. Select activities that fit the theme of the week concept
(seminar about the topic etc.)

12. Topics for KUB club calendar
The topics for each week in KUB club calendar should be
general and unifies all five programs within the department.
The cell
Taxonomy
Reproduction
Phylogeny
Genetics
Ecosystem
Biological relationships: competition, mutualism, parasitism etc.
Model organisms
Evolution Bioinformatics
Developmental biology
Life cycle
Proteins
Kuwait flora
Kuwait Fauna
Desert ecosystem
Marine ecosystem
Immunology
Population biology
Cell cycle
DNA
Disease biologyChemical structure
Population genetics
Giants of biology
KU research
KISR research
Professors Say
Students Say
Personal development
Teaching styles
Learning styles
Studying styles
Biology department week: courses, programs etc.
Biology department staff week
Biology department faculty week
Biology department student week
Stem cells
Nutrition
Forensics
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13. Club structure
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YOU team
ROAD team
A team C team

14. ROAD team
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1. ROAD team is the Representation, Organization,
Assessment, and Development team (ROAD team).
2. As the name of the team indicates, this team is the
official representative of the club and its members.
3. The names of the five members of this team will be
submitted to the university’s administration.

15. ROAD team
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4. It is the duty of this team to organize the club and
ensure that every activity is carried out according to
the goals and objectives.
5. The team should meet frequently to assess the
performance of the club.
6. Lastly, it is the team responsibility to develop
strategies to achieve the club’s goals.

16. ROAD team
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Senior team leader
Junior team leader
Director of records and statistics
Director of finances
Director of student affairs

17. A team
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1. The A team is the Action team.
2. This team is responsible for conducting the overall
activities of the club.
3. This team has unlimited number of members.
4. The number of members depends on the number
of activities conducted.

18. A team
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Team Leader
Instagram manager
Twitter manager
FaceBook manager
Blog/Website manager
Events manager 1
Events manager 2

19. C team
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1. The C team is the Creativity team.
2. This team is the think tank of the club.
3. Its main purpose to come up with ideas to help the
other teams.
4. One of the members will be the leader of this team.
5. This team would be composed of five members.

20. C team
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Member from Biochemistry
Member from Microbiology
Member from Molecular Biology
Member from Plant Science
Member from Zoology

21. YOU team
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1. YOU team is you team !.
2. This is the most important team in KUB club.
3. As the name implies this is your team. Yes, a team
composed of you and acts for you.
4. As a result, everybody is a member of this team
including the members of the other teams.

22. YOU team
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YOU

23. YOU team responsibilities
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1. Participating as much as you can in the club’s activities.
2. Following the club’s accounts on twitter, instagram, facebook.
3. Visiting the club’s blog once in a while.
4. Leaving a comment at posts made by the (A) team in
(facebook, instagram, blog etc.).
5. Re-tweeting and favorite-ing the tweets of the club’s account.
6. Like instagram posts and mention your friends.
7. Attending events such as seminars,
workshops, trips, movies etc.

24. YOU team responsibilities
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8. Participating in journal and book clubs.
9. Sharing your love for science and biology with the club
members by using a unified simple hash-tag (#KUBclub) on
your own posts and tweets. This will enable other members
to see your personal contribution as well as enable the (A)
team to repost your post on the club’s account and
mentioning you. That will allow you a moment of fame if you
are looking for it.
10. Encouraging your social circles (friends and family)
especially the young ones to follow the club’s activities and
accounts.

25. YOU team responsibilities
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11. Contributing designs and artwork to the club.
12. Submitting your Thoughts, Concerns, Complains (TCCs),
and suggestions to the ROAD team.
13. Being proud to study biology and a happy member of the
club.
14. Studying hard to be a good scientist.

26. To be done immediately
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1. Select the representatives of each team.
2. Change the name of the club to an easier and a catchy
name. Hasan suggests using Kuwait University Biology
Club (KUB Club). This name is short, rhymes, and is easy
to remember and use for social media purposes.
3. Use the name of the club as a hash-tag that unifies all of
the clubs social media activities.
4. Finalize a calendar with each week devoted for a specific
concept or topic.
5. Set a competition to design a simple logo for the club.

27. To be done immediately
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6. Design bins for the teams. Design a large number of YOU
team bins. Everybody should get this bin if they like.
7. Need to get finances log file and receipt book.
8. Establish ways of communication between the members of
each team and between teams.
9. The plans put for the club are more important at this stage
than the activities.
10. Focus should be on the development of a strong plan and
understanding the responsibilities of each team.

28. Election/Selection – ROAD team
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Senior team leader
Junior team leader
Director of records and statistics
Director of finances
Director of student affairs

29. Election/Selection – A team
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Team Leader
Instagram manager
Twitter manager
FaceBook manager
Blog/Website manager
Events manager 1
Events manager 2

30. Election/Selection – C team
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Member from Biochemistry
Member from Microbiology
Member from Molecular Biology
Member from Plant Science
Member from Zoology

31. Election/Selection – YOU team
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ARE
YOU
IN?

32. My job is done. Now yours
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