a club for college FIRST-a-holics

[Freddy Schurr]

I knew this is an old thread, but is it still happening, because I would like to join

[Leon Machado IV]

I'm curious if college alumni can join up? I'm graduated and basically have no involvement anymore.

[Amanda Morrison]

Instead of burdening Brandon Martus further, or until someone can make an individual website, I can help out with this.

The CollegiateFIRST.org website is currently looking for information about students to post underneath the colleges involved in FIRST. We can later expand this further, but for the time being, if your college has a team, we can put your contact information in the general field of the college.

If you are interested, please PM or email (ammorrison at gmail) me the following:
Your name, first and last
Your year in school (Junior, etc.)
Your expected graduation year
Your major and minor, if any
An email you'd like to be contacted at
An instant messenger name (AOL only please), if you'd like to be contacted

That's the best I can do for now. Perhaps I can rope my trusty webmasters Jtosh and David into helping me create, support, and maintain an individual website.

Thanks,
Amanda

[Josh Hambright]

Well this sounds like a very interesting idea.

And maybe in the next few months another FIRST related website will emerge into the world and maybe it will have to do with college age FIRST-A-Holics...we'll see

[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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Email: Cjc113083@yahoo.com

Chris
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