NSBEMIT General Body Meeting 4

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NSBE-MITGeneral Body Meeting 4

• Preparation

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Agenda

• Recap of October Events
• Upcoming Events for November
• Fall Regional Conference (November 10-12)
• Community Service Initiatives
• Boeing Competition, ATB
• Member of the Month
• NSBE Catering Menu
• MOCK ATB!

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October Events

• Grad Panel Event
• Presented by Dean Christopher Jones of the
  Graduate Student Office
• Grad School Prep Series?

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October Events

• BLUES Research Colloquium 1
• Andrew Clare
• Sonic Boom Prediction A New Empirical
  Formulation and Animated Graphical Model
• Professor Wesley Harris
• Chas in Sickle Cell Anemia

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Fall Regional Conference INFO

• In Buffalo, New York
• Our Time, Our Renaissance
• November 10-12 (No School the 10th)
• Registration
• Collegiate Member 75 until Nov. 6 90 onsite
• Collegiate Torchbearer 70 until Nov. 6 80 on
  site

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Fall Regional Conference

• Friday Night Entertainment
• That Good Ol NSBE Love Date Auction Money goes
  to charity
• Open Mic Night Bring your Skills from Ill Vibes

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Fall Regional Conference

• Competitions to Check Out
• Academic Tech Bowl Battle of the Brains
• Watch MIT defend our championship title
• Undergraduate Students in Technical Research
• Step Competition

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Fall Regional Conference
Working Hard for That Money

• BAE Systems
• Bain and Company
• CitiGroup
• Columbia University
• General Mills
• General Motors
• General Electric
• Goldman Sachs
• Honda RD America
• IBM
• ITT Space Division
• Microsoft

• Inroads
• Lehman Brothers
• MIT Lincoln Lab
• Praxair
• Proctor and Gamble
• Raytheon
• RPI
• Stanford
• US Navy
• United Technologies
• Univ. of Michigan
• Vangard Group
• Verizon

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Fall Regional Conference
Workshops

• Generations of Excellence Black History in the
  STEM Fields
• Image Management (Ladies and Gents specific)
• Cause Im the Boss (Attributes of a Leader)
• Is it Too Late to Salvage My Semester?

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Fall Regional Conference
Workshops

• Eliminate Self Defeating Behavior and Achieve
  Success
• Work Smarter Not Harder
• Let Me Upgrade You Transferring from Collegiate
  to Professional Life
• How to Build a Windows Media Player Skin

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Fall Regional Conference

• The 2007 Howard University Windows Media Player
  Skins Challenge session takes students through
  the creative and technical process of developing
  their own unique Windows Media Player skin.
  Students can then submit their creation to win
  cool prizes, including an Xbox 360, cash, games,
  and a trip to Washington , DC. Previous Skins
  Challenge participants have used their creations
  to impress potential employers, and to help
  secure jobs as skin designers for Hollywood
  motion picture studios and the gaming industry.
  Skins Challenge details can be found at
  http//www.howard.edu/skinschallenge. Sponsored
  by Microsoft, in association with the National
  Society of Black Engineers.

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Fall Regional Conference

• Nov. 10
• Breakfast at 415am in MacGregor Convenience
• Depart at 445am
• Nov. 12
• Meet in Hotel Lobby 615am
• Depart for MIT at 715am
• Surprise Trip to
• Syracuse Salt Museum

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Fall Regional Conference

• JUST KIDDING.
• NIAGARA FALLS!!
• Just a quick visit to enjoy being with our NSBE
  Family

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Community Service Initiative

• Clothing Drive Highly Successful
• THANK YOU NSBE-MIT
• This Month
• NSBE Book Drive For Africa

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Boeing Competition

• BC 1st Meeting in Building 33, 1st floor lab
  Saturday, Nov. 18 _at_ Noon

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Academic Tech Bowl (ATB)

• Competition at Regional Level (FRC)-supposed to
  be BIG!
• Perform Well Free Nationals
• Eligibility Registered Member of NSBE

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Academic Tech Bowl

• MIT Team 1

• MIT Team 2

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Member of the MONTH!!!

• And the winner is
• For the prize of an HP all-in-one printer
• Etienne Toussaint

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• Why did you join NSBE?
• Create a list of things NSBE can do for your
  class.

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Any Questions?
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Mock-ATB

• Practice TIME!!!