UOIT Developers The Programming Club UOITDC

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UOIT DevelopersThe Programming Club _at_ UOIT-DC

• General Meeting
• January 16
• UA2240

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Meeting Outline

• Club Goals
• Benefits of active membership
• Committees
• Business Career Committee
• Guest Series Committee
• Marketing Recruitment Committee
• Magazine Committee
• Website Committee
• ACM Membership
• Certificates of participation
• Conclusion
• How to join

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Club Goals

• provide opportunities for students to learn and
  apply new skills
• promote career opportunities
• create an annual in-house programming competition
• establish an Association for Computing Machinery
  (ACM) chapter
• compete in regional ACM competition
• establish our own engineering/technical magazine
• promote relevant technical seminars
• reach out to the campus community with mentorship
  and tutoring
• Other goals
• Make awareness of the campus through a conference
• Get general sponsors

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Benefits of active membership

• gain new technical soft skills
• gain co-curricular points through SA
• http//cocurricular.mycampus.ca
• networking career opportunities

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Committees

• Each committee will consist of
• 1 Committee Leader / Executive
• 3 Members
• Available Executive positions
• Nominate yourself or a friend
• Interview with current executives
• Looking for dedication
• Experience not necessary
• Training provided

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Business Careers Committee

• responsible for contacting companies in order to
  bring co-op and internships to UOIT
• promoting our program and the skills we learn
• must create company profile before contacting
• must know course material (course description
  from course calendar, course outlines, lectures,
  etc)
• Coordinate with Guest Series Committee to get
  company recruiters on campus

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Hired
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Guest Series Committee

• Invite IT managers, Lead Software Architects,
  Project Managers to give speech _at_ UOIT
• Creates awareness of our campus even if we dont
  land the guests
• Coordinate with Faculty Student Association (SA)

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Marketing Recruitment Committee

• Promoting and expanding club membership
• First years Frosh week booth
• College students
• Poster Graphics Design
• Coordinate with Website Committee

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Magazine Team

• We need an engineering / technical magazine much
  like the MacEngineer to promote technical culture
  at our university
• We need to take the lead in establishing a campus
  tech magazine for current students and future
  alumni
• It would benefit everyone involved
• Highlight faculty achievements and campus
  developments
• Career opportunities for current students
• Co-op internships advice from pervious
  students
• Alumni connection
• How you can help we are looking for
• Authors, editors, designers
• Need faculty support and sponsorships for
  operations

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MacEngineer

• Their TOC
• Alumni Profiles
• Engineering News
• MES News
• Newsbriefs
• Alumni Grapevine
• We can also add
• Careers Section
• Co-op Internship experiences
• Sponsors

http//www.eng.mcmaster.ca/engalumni/macengineer/
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Website Committee

• Maintain current website and forum
• Installing, customizing, and testing components
  and modules
• Responsible for Hosting and Domain services
• Cost is SA write-off
• Requirements
• Basic HTML necessary
• PHP, C-panel, setting up databases are bonus

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Website CommitteeJoomla backend Cpanel
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ACM Membership

• 1. Form a group of at least ten (10) interested
  students, willing to participate in activities
  and carry out the chapter's mission.
• 2. Find an ACM professional member to sponsor
  your chapter. This person could be a professor in
  your school.
• 3. Elect four (4) officers out of your group to
  run chapter business. At least three of the
  petitioning officers must be student members of
  ACM.
• 4. Begin the chartering process by completing the
  petition, bylaws, and first year activity plan.
• http//www.acm.org/chapters/students/form-gen-inte
  rest

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Acknolwedgement Rewards

• Certificate of participation for all executives
  members
• Co-cirricular position points
• Must be registered with the club

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Conclusion

• Goals
• Benefits
• Committees
• Guest Speaker
• Business Career
• Magazine
• This is your university
• Make the most of your time here
• Get involved!

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How to join Club Committees

• Sign-up sheets being passed around
• Website
• Club and Committee signup forms are also
  available online
• www.uoitdevelopers.com
• A thanks to UOIT IEEE Student Branch
• www.uoitieee.com
• www.uoitieee.com/forum
• Facebook uoit software engineering
• http//uoit.facebook.com/group.php?gid2313248454
  

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Questions, comments, ideas?
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• Thank you!