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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It's finally here: the first annual <b>All-GAPS meeting</b> will be held
<b>today at 12 pm in the MOB auditorium</b>. <span>This is your most significant chance of the year (in our opinion, anyway) to have your voice heard and to shape your own experience as a graduate student or postdoc at TRIUMF. We will do our absolute best to
make sure that this hour is worth your time.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">If you filled out our pizza poll, please come get your slices at
<b>11:45 inside the auditorium</b> to allow us to get started promptly at noon.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">More details on the meeting are below. <br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">See you soon! <br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">- Your GAPS</p>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The details:</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">On </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Thursday October 18th, 12 pm - 1 pm in the MOB auditorium, </b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">your
Grads and Postdocs Society (GAPS) is holding the first annual All-GAPS meeting, and you’re invited.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#3333FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>What’s this all about?</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b> </b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">GAPS, together with TRIUMF management, would like to set up our goals for the next year(s). </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>You</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> are
GAPS - so we need to hear what </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>you</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> want, and what is important
to </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>you</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">!</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">In the first part of the meeting, the </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">current GAPS organizing committee will
quickly tell you </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">what we have been doing over the past year. </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">In this
part of the meeting we'll also host </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">a few representatives of TRIUMF management, who will briefly introduce themselves and share their view of GAPS.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">In the second part - </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>open to grads and postdocs only!</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> -
we’ll host an open discussion about life for you at TRIUMF. You’ll hear from your fellow grads and postdocs about their TRIUMF experience, and you’ll get to share your own. </span></font></div>
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can I do to make sure my voice gets heard?</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#3333FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:0;background-color:white;white-space:normal;"><font size="1" face="Helvetica" color="black"><span style="font-size:12px;background-color:white;font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;"><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>First</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">,
please take a minute to fill out this very short survey by </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>noon,</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Wed.
Oct. 10th</b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">: </span></font><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3C7628T" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk853223" previewremoved="true"><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3C7628T</span></font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> .</span></font></span></font></div>
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come to the All-GAPS meeting! The agenda will be set according to what you write in the survey.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#3333FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Why participate at all?</b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">We know there are parts of life at TRIUMF that are really great, and other parts that you’d like to change. What works here, and what doesn't? Tell us, so that we can get
to work on the things that matter most to you. Your input will shape our focus for the next year(s), and you’ll get to talk with and hear from other grads and postdocs who probably have the same concerns. Also - there will be </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>pizza </b></span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">at
the meeting.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">We’re looking forward to seeing and hearing you.</span></font></div>
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