Our Projects

Rewards program for attending different types of UMBC Events ranging from athletic events, SEB events, and student organization events to name a few.

This is a joint project with card services. Students will swipe their UMBC student ID cards when they attend an event on the schedule and receive a point for each event. There will be different levels of prizes for earning more points. Website soon to be launched.

*Transcript Fee*
Gabe Rettaliata – gabriel2@umbc.edu

Working with administration in regards to resolving the newly created $8
transcript fee.

*Peer Mentoring*
Tabassum Majid – tmajid1@umbc.edu

Creating a program where students will help students with their class schedule before their advising.

The purpose of this program is to have students who are further along within
their major help other students select their classes before students attend
advising. We will be launching a test program with several majors for
advising this semester.

*SGA Communications*
Nikunj Divecha - nikunjd1@umbc.edu

Working to improve the internal and external communications and transparency of SGA.

Aside from what you see here on this website, other aspects of this project
will be a periodic press release detailing what is happening with SGA as
well as pictures of all members with in/out of office markers in the Student
Orgs Area to facilitate more accessibility between SGA members and students.

*Project Black and Gold*
Aditi Srivastev - aditisr1@umbc.edu

Working on increase black and gold and school spirit around campus.

This project is on its first phase of creating a contest where students will
design light post banners that will be displayed all over campus for the
next five years. Website soon to be launched.

*Making the Black and Gold Card*
Toby Le – phuocle1@umbc.edu

Making the red card black and gold

Related to Project Black and Gold in that the winning design will be placed
on the Student ID Card.

*Transit Tracker*
Rahilla Tarfa – rat1@umbc.edu

An online GPS tracking system for UMBC Shuttle Busses.

An ongoing project that was started in the 2007-2008 year. This involves GPS
tracking for all UMBC shuttle busses. We are working on improving the
system. Please see http://umbc.transloc.com/ to use the transit tracker.

*Student Fees Transparency*
Steve Gilmore – Gilmore2@umbc.edu

Improving the transparency of the fees undergraduate students pay.

We are working to find detailed information regarding all the fees that
students pay in order to distribute this information before the Fee Forum.
This will allow students to have more information about what their fees are
being used for and allow for more informed questions at the Fee Forum.

*Library Hours/Places to Study *
Sunaina Khandelwal – khasun1@umbc.edu
Extending library hours or finding additional places for students to study.

This project has the purpose of either keeping the library open later into
the night or finding more late night areas for students to study.

*Prove – It*
Elani Odeyale – Elani1@umbc.edu

Implementing the Winning Prove It Design from last year

Green Space will be in the area between the Fine Arts Building and faculty
parking lot behind it. Construction will begin in March or April and will be
completed in May. Please see http://sga.umbc.edu/proveit/ for more
information.

*Early Move In Day*
Fouad Kanaan – Fou1@umbc.edu

Moving spring move-in one day earlier.

Allow students to move in a day earlier as opposed to the day before classes
start to give students more time to get settled and catch up with friends
before spring classes start.

*Gender Neutral Housing and Bathrooms*

Paula McCusker - paulam1@umbc.edu
Creating more gender neutral housing and gender neutral bathrooms on campus.

*Erickson Field*
James McCauley - jmccaul1@umbc.edu

Hiring outside contractor for consistant maintenance and care

Adding a simple but effective drainage system

With this project we are working on adding a simple but effective drainage
system to Erickson Field to prevent flooding during rainfalls. We have been
working with Facilities Management to get the
field re-seeded and aerated once the drainage is in place and the grass
actually has a chance to survive, while at the same time making sure it
still remains usable for all the activity it sees.