Team:Calgary/Fundraising/Blog

Every Thursday (started at the end of June), our marketing team uses our Synthetic BLOGology blog to update both the public and the rest of the team of their progress in fundraising for both this year and future years. For more details regarding Synthetic BLOGology, please click HERE.

-July
-August

These updates have been posted with newest ones at the top.

Hey guys,

I’m Prima and I’m back on the show again!! This has been a very successful week for iGEM Calgary. I’d like to specially thank VWR and Corning Life Sciences for sponsoring our project. Both of these generous contributors have been recognized under the Bronze category of our sponsors.

The marketing team also finished, edited and began to distribute the July newsletter to all companies. This newsletter highlights the achievements and progress of iGEM Calgary for the month of July. Aside from that, Jamie, Fahd, Jeremy and I are slaving away with our hard core marketing responsibilities! We followed up with numerous companies who are considering our sponsorship package, set up meetings and thanked all other companies for considering our project.

We have an exciting week coming up as the team prepares for its next ultimate fundraising project: iGEM Bake sale trinity! This time we’ll come prepared with double the treats, triple the advertisements and of course 15 talented iGEMers to make Wednesday August 5th a once in a life time event!! Come devour the ambrosia!!! We have high expectations for next week and if all else goes well, iGEM Calgary will celebrate with a end of the year team get together. That’s about it! Peace out!

Some of the culinary delights offered at our bakesale

Hi, this is Fahd (AKA FM 707), and I just finished my first year in Health and Society. I love cooking, soccer, and being on the marketing team!

This week, our marketing team had organized a bake sale as part of our fundraising campaign for the University of Calgary 2009 iGEM team. The bake sale took place at the Health Sciences Centre, University of Calgary on Tuesday, 30th June 2009. All iGEM team members had participated at this event. Baked goods included samosas, spring rolls, cupcakes, muffins, cinnamon buns and cheese cakes. We made a net profit of $370.00 Cdn dollars which will be used for sequencing reactions. We also had a $1000 Cdn dollars contribution from BioAlberta whose logo we have posted on our WIKI. We have been, so far this week, turned down by VWR and LI-COR Biosciences.