Week of Welcome
Tue, 06/02/2009 - 20:46
Howdy, folks. Hope you're all enjoying your summer thus far.
As you may or may not know, the office of New Student Orientation is starting to plan out the annual fall semester Week of Welcome. It is aimed at being a way for the new students to get familiar with campus and what the University of Akron has to offer. In this, we'll have a few thousand new freshmen attending UA for the first time. Of those, I'd wager that roughly half of them are undecided. Maybe 10% of those are considering computer science.
It is my impression that very few if any students outside of the CS program are even aware of the ACM's existence. And I'd like to say that if there's a good reason to take computer science at UA, we're it. We need to be the people to push them over that edge and get them to seriously consider computer science as a major. And we need to be the people to get the non-cs-but-still-heavily-computer-related-such-as-those-at-summit-college majors involved with computer science. The more the merrier. According to the week of welcome schedule, Campus Focus appears to be the only other student organization doing anything. That gives us a ton of room to do whatever the heck we want.
This is where you, the members come in. We're looking for suggestions of things to do. Something that'll tell everyone about the ACM: Who we are, what we do, our mission drive, how we can help them, and how they can help us. Don't be afraid to make a suggestion. We'll consider just about everything right now.
The deadline for registering an event is July 15th. That gives us a month and two weeks to think up ideas, and a frantic hour speeding down the highway for Adam or myself to turn the papers in before the SOuRCe closes :
Sat, 06/13/2009 - 10:53
#2
Re: Week of Welcome
hai guyz
maybe you could have someone's beefy computer running a game demo and be lik ... ya we like games
I like pizza
Mon, 06/15/2009 - 23:36
#3
Re: Week of Welcome
I'm particularly partial to Moses' idea, although I think that Kat is right on about trying to attract a wide variety of people. I'm just not really sure how to do that. Maybe start like a "video games wives" club, where the women who lost their men to the video games can associate with the ACM.
I also believe that exposure is key. I know that the only reason that I knew about ACM last year is because of my acute attention deficit disorder. I think that we could bring in many potential members just by introducing the concept to the first and second year classes.
I also think that extending the ACM brand to other activities around campus would help us be more attractive to members... imagine if the ACM had intermural interests (granted, we would need the member support to keep it up, but it is an idea.)
Just some thoughts I've been kicking around in my head.
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 21:08
#4
Re: Week of Welcome
so guys... how's the planning going? We've got about two weeks till that paperwork needs to be in.
I suggest an officer's meeting (open to the public, of course) in the irc. If you guys want to be losers and meet in person without me, that would be ok, too, I suppose. If we go with the irc, I suggest around 9 pm on a weekday Akron time, but if you pick another time, I'll make it work.
We can talk about welcome week and anything else that we want to start planning. We should also probably discuss the new financial situation.
Mon, 07/06/2009 - 18:33
#5
Re: Week of Welcome
Just let me know.
Wed, 07/08/2009 - 12:30
#8
Re: Week of Welcome
Would next wed at 9 not work for anyone?
Wed, 07/08/2009 - 15:00
#9
Re: Week of Welcome
I hope you mean 9 AM EST. 9 PM is way past the due date. But 9 AM wouldn't work either, as I work from 7-3.
Wed, 07/08/2009 - 15:12
#10
Re: Week of Welcome
Is it possible to make drupal prompt me for a username and password if I'm not logged in before I post? I keep thinking I'm logged in because it's letting me reply, but then it turns out I'm not. I know I'm a little scatterbrained and all, but you have to admit it's misleading.
Also, can we bypass the whole "forcing you to preview your message before you post it" business?
Thanks.
Wed, 07/08/2009 - 15:08
#11
Re: Week of Welcome
uh... no. 9 am EST would be 6 am PST for me. I'm not usually awake at 6 am, and if I'm awake, I'm not functional without a LOT of caffeine.
I was just trying to throw out a date and see if it would work, but for some reason I didn't put 2 and 2 together and realize next Wed is the due date on the paperwork. Umm... pick a time between now and then, and if it's after 8 am PST, I'll make it work, even if it means joining the chat from the lab when I should be working.
I love that you're so realistic about how turning in the paperwork will go. :-)
I vote for free pizza, some information about who we are, what we do, and why you should be a CS major and join us, and then maybe a demo of some sort. Can someone get the roomba working well enough to show it off? Or is someone working on a cool project over the summer that they can explain?
I think the really important thing is to make it seem attractive to everybody - girls, guys, freshmen, seniors, new members, old members, CS majors, related majors, and other random people who are techy. We're definitely going to want to send someone to every CS class to talk it up, and to other tech-type classes if we can.