a club for college FIRST-a-holics

[Matthew_H]

The Ubergeeks have started a FIRST webring that might be a good starting point for the FIRST club. You can sign-up and grab the code at http://firstubergeeks.com/webring/ I am hoping everyone with a FIRST website will join this new webring.

[Jeremy Roberts]

I'd love to join. I'll pass this on the the rest of the team here at Tech. We have a group of about 15 FIRSTers still active from high school to college (and growing...). We have quite a few of the high schools students from the teams we mentor moving up and joining us next year.

[Ken Leung]

Great to hear everyone so enthusiastic about it!

Lee offered his webspace to us already, so all we need is a web master *cough* sunny *cough*...

Also, I would like to hear some suggestions from people about what else you want to do in a College FIRST-a-holic club, as long as it takes very little work. All the ones I suggested only take a website to do, and they are still fun.

[Amanda Morrison]

There certainly aren't enough resources FIRST-wise for college students! Count me in.

[BionicAlumni]

I am down for it. Any club with Ken has to be cool.

[WakeZero]

Lol, hooray for Sunny

[Matt Leese]

Given I was part of this when we tried to do it before, I don't see why I wouldn't be willing to do it now. I just hope it works out better this time.

Matt

[Jferrante]

Woohoo! Go Hokies!

I'm up for any organization that lets me still do FIRST in college. Of course, i'm sure many of us have found ways to do so without one, it would be better if we had one. I'm currently helping several teams including the VT team and my old high school team 506 back in New York.

[Ken Leung]

Originally posted by Matt Leese
Given I was part of this when we tried to do it before, I don't see why I wouldn't be willing to do it now. I just hope it works out better this time.

Matt

Its a little different from the Society of College FIRST-a-holics, because we aren't going to do any of the hard work we planned for SCF, at the beginning anyway. Just planning to do something fun for all of us college students, and build a network for all the college FIRST-a-holic out there.

If people choose to do what SCF planned to do a while ago, then they can make use of this network, and get people interested and start SCF again.

As I said, the less work the better. And I know SCF is going to take a lot of work.

[Erin Rapacki]

I think it's a great idea... I'll definatley participate in this! And think... if this works, not only will it help as a social thing right now, but when we graduate college... we'll all have more contacts for jobs in the future too. It's always good to have friends working for/with you.

Well... because I am an overburdoned college student right now; I'm off to study! fun fun!

ByE

erin

[Chris]

Whenever you get around to forming the list i'd love to be included.

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[Ken Leung]

Talked to Sunny last night, and he's willing to help us out and do the website for us. For those of you who don't know him, he was the one (with the help of Nate Smith) who created www.pitnews.org a long with some very professional looking site.

For now, the first thing we are going to have is a place for people to come in and enter their into. Then they can go to a table, like the members list of CD forum, and look up people by sorting different info like team number, location, school, attending which competition, etc.

Then the second thing is something like slashdot.com , where people can go in and submit stories, depending what people are interested in, or doing many other things like I suggested earlier in the first post. Maybe even a forum for our own, and our own irc channel, etc.

But the key is we need to know what you want in the website. After all, this "club" is for all of you out there struggling with school and FIRST at the same time. So, either reply in the forum, or I will be IMing each of you about this and see what you guys want to do with this club. It can be as little or as many as you want.

[gilachick]

I am all for it. I would love to know how to kick sleep.

[Anne Shade]

I'd be more than happy to join too. There's more of us from Georgia Tech over here, some don't check chiefdelphi though. Once the site is up, I'll let them know.

[LaurenH]

I'm sure the students helping out from MSOE could go for something like this. At MSOE most people get burnt out the first day of classes ever.

PM on this site when you get things started