February Meeting Recap ***don't TL;DR me until you've read about the programming competition***
Adam Gehringer
The meeting was held on February 18th at 8pm in PKI 252.
In attendance we 3 of the 4 officers and one member (not counting the
people who are only IEEE member).
***Before you TL;RD this message please skip to the section on the
programming competition and decide if you can contribute***
ACM Agenda:
-Chapter Status
-1400 level programming competition
-ACM Functions
Chapter Status:
We cannot proceed with obtaining official chapter status until we have
a consistently larger attendance. Patrick Cavanaugh and I have
discussed ways to recruit new members. We thing that it would be best
to focus on recruiting the lower classes, Incoming freshmen, freshmen
and sophomores, because these classes stand to benefit most from what
we intend to do with this organization.
1400 level programming competition:
We will be holding a programming competition for students in CIST1400.
The purpose of this competition will be to raise awareness of the
chapter with the younger classes. We plan to work with Bob Fulkerson
to get this to count for extra credit for participants and for more
extra credit for the winner. It will be modeled after the ACM
international colligate programming competition. The participants will
be given a number of problems to solve in a set amount of time. We
want to have single man teams. The completion will be held on Saturday
April 10th from 10am to 12:30pm. We will have free pizza for lunch for
contestants and those helping run the competition.
Tentative schedule:
10:00am - 10:30am : introduction to file I/O
10:30am - 12:30pm : competition
12:30pm - done : pizza while scoring results and announcement of
the winner
We are going to need some help with this. We need people to work on
creation of problems ( this will be difficult considering the
participants will only be able to do one dimensional arrays at this
point). We will also need help on the day of the competition itself
administering the completion and scoring the results. If you are
interested please email me at my personal email
adam.ge...@gmail.com or talk to me or Patrick Cavanaugh.
ACM Functions:
We need to decide what we want to be as an organization. Luckily, I
was about to get input from the IEEE members. This is key in getting
attendance up and in general. What is the point of being an
organization if we don't know why we want to exist.
So far through discussion we've come up with this list:
-source of information about changes in the college and to the
curriculum
-source of homework help
-talk about material not generally covered in core course material
-source of information about internships
-social events
We're still working on reforming ourselves as an organization and
deciding what our functions will be. We hope to eventually have our
own meetings as well as monthly or bimonthly help secessions.
If you have any input please post it up to this group or the Face Book
group or you can email me at adam.ge...@gmail.com and I can post
it for you.
Also, if you'd like to be removed from this list let me know and I
will remove you.
Thanks,
Adam Gehringer