John Pruitt called the June 8, 2015 Rotary Club of Kirkland meeting to order at 6:30 and welcomed the guests.  We didn't have a pledge tonight - but the Rotary Minute Question:

 

For the Rotary Minute -Question. What makes our Rotary Club of Kirkland Exceptional? – here are some of the shout outs. Duck Dash, Miracle League, People, Salmon Bake, Bunko, Monday Nights, the Pledge, Beautiful Venue.

 

Rick Walters - took role for the attendance at the party, which was above the predicted forecast of people by 20%

 

Guests:

·         Rich Berghdal introduced his wife Nannette

·         Ben Premack introduced Trevor McCann

·         Harry introduced his wife of 14 months

·         Scott introduced his neighbor Mohgan

·         Dan Dix introduced Bride Shirley

·         Steve Shinstrom introduced his wife Patty

·         John introduced his wife Janet

 

 

Miracle League - Rick commented on the last miracle league game, with the Mariners Moose showing up - and already looking forward to next season.  John commented that it was nice to do a JV with the other Kirkland Club

 

Rich - commented on the  planning retreat with the new board last weekend.  Asked the current board members to continue on if they would like because the club has been running really well.  The Retreat was held at the Market Street , and they opened it up for the meeting in the morning

 

Anne Hamilton - commented on the LWIT dinner that was prepared for Rotary , and thanked James Nevers for planning and setting up a great event.

 

Ben Premack commented on the Face Book page that he has up and running. He asks that people send pictures to him for posting on the Face Book page.  Benjamin@premack.com

 

FIRST FEATURE: TEEN CEO

Scott Becker came up to kick off the Teen CEO feature of the program.

 

Introduced Rita Smith, the Career and Technical Education Specialist for Lake Washington School District.  We sponsored it for $2500.  Rita introduced two of the winners.  The CEO Awards were able to give away $6K to students to promote their businesses. 

 

Students have to have an existing business to compete. There was a judge from Kirkland Rotary (Angela Marx).  Rita thanks Scott Becker for his mentorship in the program.

 

First Place: Riley Kendal - CEO of Kendal's cards

Greeting Card business in which people can purchase cards online and customize them online.  Three customizable options:

1.       Choose a Photos

2.       Choose a quote you have on a web site - or write your own statement

3.       Inside of the Card - You can specify the occaision.

 

Kendal then makes the actual physical cards.  Kendal has a good quality stock - with high resolution images.  This is another way for Kendal to find a perfect card.  Kendal commented that she got interested in this business when trying to organize her own photography for Greeting Cards, and how she was interested in sharing her photographs.  Kendal sends the card to the address in the request. Each card is $5.  Local Businesses will buy a pack of 6 cards for $20 - and have the same card to customize for specific people.

 

Differentiation: Overall process for customization is simpler. Directed to middle age market rather than Youth - as the tradition of cards isn't highly adopted by the younger generation. Use of her own photographs 

 

Award: Kendal received $2500 for the first place award, and discussed how she spent the money, including her plans to build an app for her business.

 

 

Second Place - Anthony Humay - Midzy (Polling platform business)

 

Led off his presentation about discussing the importance of being curious beings.  Discussed how he started the company when he was in middle school (13 yrs old) - filed a business license.  Its Youtube but for polling.  Works hand in hand with twitter, fb,  etc.  Can create a poll on anything - and anyone can answer a poll on different topics. 

Two types of customers: 1) Enterprises and 2) General Consumers

 

Loop and Voice Poll - two main competitors.

Target Audience: Content Creators - people who create polls. 

Unique Users : 11K site visits per month -  plus goal of 5K.  Unique users in the hundreds but looking to break 1K

 

Also talked about how he used his money including expanding to other platforms.  Has two pending patents, and wants to integrate psycographics

 

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Second Feature: DUCK DASH:

Scott Becker came up to kick off the Duck Dash

Thanked James Nevers - for following up on documents

Thanked Alice for the Decorations

Jo Anne Primavera will handle the ticket coordination

Anne Hamilton - handling media and PR

Patty Smith - Coordinating the venue scheduling

Need volunteers for the duck sales and race day

Scott and Anne Roethke - have a new design on the tickets..

Rick Ostrander will be coordinate the tickets. Pick up what you want today  - Sunday is the only day (start at 10am)

 

Steve Shinstrom is coordinating the Duck and Trailer for the Parade. Patty will organize the volunteers for the Parade.  Steve asked for a number of people that will be joining the 4th of July Parade, and will be sending an email. He also asked for additional ideas if anyone would like to do anything different to please email him.

 

Patty asked for people to let her know what they would like to participate in - and also the schedule of when ticket sales will be happening - and who can coordinate.  Anyone who wants to participate who doesn't want to walk - can participate in the booth.  Patty is asking for volunteers to help class up the venues. 

 

Scott thanked all of the Platinum and Gold Sponsors for the Rotary Club

 

Bill Woods commented that he has made all 18 Duck Dashes that the Rotary Club has done

 

Rick Walter commented on how the club received a letter from Shelter Box thanking for the donation from the club.

 

 

Joker Pool:

President John predicted a winner

 

Terry Cole won the pool and he picked……. The 7 of diamonds… Down to 4 cards.

 

Next week - Devlin from Teague Engineering will give a presentation on the Future of Cars.  Invite friends as it will be a great presentation.  It will be the last meeting before the transition dinner.  June 29th.

 

Thought for the Week: Colin Powell - said a dream doesn't become a reality through magic.  It takes sweat, determination, and hard work. That is what we are going to do for the Duck Dash.

 

Samir Saluja Scribe for a week!!!.      (Editor Note:  Thanks Samir for THE fastest scribe notes in Rotary history.  They were in my inbox before I left the meeting!!!)