Present: Jason Wellband, Mary Richardson, Joachim Stahl, Dr. Jarman, Dr. Medley
Introduction to our ACM Student Chapter
· Student chapter organized on campus about 20 years ago
· All CSCI majors officially members, though not necessarily active
· No dues for local membership
· ACM student memberships available – see Department bulletin board
or visit www.acm.org
· Largest international professional organization in Computer Science
· Local chapter website http://www.aug.edu/asuacm/
· Group available on Pipeline
· acm@aug.org - club email box
Ideas for club activities
· Linux drive – get more students interested in and running Linus
on their home computers
· T-shirt sale – need to come up with a good t-shirt design for
the organization, then ordering and sales should do well
· SOS activities – man a table to introduce the club to new students
· Intramurals – Joachim Stahl will check into possibilities for
a soccer team and Mary Richardson will do the same for softball
· Washington Hall display case can be reserved for student organizations
– need ideas
· Homecoming – sign design contest – need ideas
· Website needs refurbishing – Mary will work on it
· Speaker meetings – ideas for potential speakers:
· AFCEA – young AFCEANS at Ft. Gordon www.afcea-augusta.com
· ACM Lectureship Program - http://www.acm.org/top/lect.html
· Career planning center
· Local professionals
Club goals for the year proposed by Jason Wellband:
· Send teams to ACM and CCSC-SE programming contests
· Attract more active members
· T-shirt sale
· Linux drive
Next meeting 10 AM, March 3rd, Allgood Hall N338