- Treasurer’s Report (Jon): Up $30 K
- IT Officer (Tony): Working on getting access given to Gamicon to Mindbridge cloud share
- Storage Manager (Carhoff Alliance)
- Items that are up for grabs contact the Carhoff Alliance
- Interlocking Foam Mats
- White plastic shelving
- Bean Bag Chairs x2
- Cereal Dispenser
- Wooden Board w/ Cork Material
- Projector Roll Screen Portrait
- 2 Family Programming Empty Bins
- Large & Small Photo Paper 100x Each
- Bin of Vintage Books from ICON
- ConSuite Tote of Plastic Cutlery & Accessories
- Bin of Art Show Coloring & Art Supplies
- Blue/Grey Tote of Costumes
- Possible Donation Clothing Tote, If Not Grabbed, Given to Donation Center
- Coffee Urn from ICON
- Please inform Jenny if you are going to go into the storage locker.
- Jenny will have dates at the next meeting that she will need help at the locker.
- Items that are up for grabs contact the Carhoff Alliance
- Convention Reports-All conventions are looking for additional help
- AnimeIowa (July 31st – Aug 2nd, 2026)
- Expectation that AI will appoint and vet an additional treasurer by June MB meeting
- If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions
- Next meeting will be Saturday May 9th at 2pm to be followed by the Mindbridge Membership meeting
- Volunteering please reach out at Recruitment@animeiowa.com
- contact: execs@animeiowa.com
- ICON (Oct 24th at the Hyatt ICON50-2026)
- Memberships are on sale
- Room blocks are open
- We are narrowing down our GOH – should have for the next meeting.
- Working on adding additional king rooms to the room block
- If interested in staff or have other questions contact: info@iowa-icon.com
- If interested in Volunteering contact:info.icon.mb@gmail.com
- Gamicon (Feb 26-28 2027)
- Hotel is changing its price for the vendor
- Redoing barcoding the game library
- Contacted a GOH
- Setting up room block for dealers in
- Sat only and at the door membership is going to be increased by $5
- Need several more staff
- Next meeting May 31st at Amanda Bowersox’s house and on Zoom 6420 Wolf Creek Trail, Cedar Rapids 52411 at 6pm
- If interested in volunteering, staff or have other questions contact: info@gamicon.org
- AnimeIowa (July 31st – Aug 2nd, 2026)
- Other Projects
- Game Library: Michele – We can no longer accept donations of games at this time due to space constraints
- Video Game Library
- Working on replacing some of the TVs
- Please Reach out if interested at Info@videogamelibrary.org
- Will purchase replacement tvs by June meeting
- Need assistance with running Video Game Library please contact Adam
- TrekFest– Jenny Carhoff & Alex Ward: If interested please contact Jenny at mommayaya911@gmail.com subject Trekfest
- Book Group
- May 21st 6pm at the Panera we will be discuGoblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- June 11th “He who fights with Monsters” by Shirtaloon
- Anybody wanting to become Mindbridge Members
- Jim Pitcher is now a Member
- James Sampers is now a Member
- Old Business
- We will no longer be able to have meetings at the Arc
- All monthly meetings at the Penticoff house going forward
- Alternate Locations:
- Ben Carhoff’s work has a Conference room in Tiffin – free
- Iowa City Library – free + parking
- Hyatt in Coralville cost $150 meeting plus parking
- Talking about doing Mindbridge Foundation T-shirts, hoodies, and polo
- Possibly moving the Day of the Monthly Mindbridge Meetings
- 2nd Wednesday of the month
- First Thursday of the month
- May 9th 4pm there will be a Mindbridge Membership Meeting after the Anime Iowa meeting and online
- Jimmy Johns est 30 people
- Board Position open
- If there are any problems or questions address them to Sheril from now until June 3rd, 2026 meeting Email mindbridge-bod@googlegroups.com
- We will no longer be able to have meetings at the Arc
- New Business: AnimeIowa 2028 bid
Next meeting will be Wed June 3rd, 2026 @ 7pm online and at Hart-Frederick Consultants (Ben Carhoff’s work) 510 State St, Tiffin, IA 52340