Well we had out first general meeting on the 23rd of September. It was held at Santa Clara University, Bannan Engineering Room #325, 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, California 95053. Curious why I have the whole address up on the blog?? Well that is because we will be holding all out meetings at this location from this point onwards. The building is kinda funky (you know how those engineers like to model every simple task into a full blown Rubik’s cube solving session) and for future reference you might wanna have someone’s number just in case you get lost within the building.
The initial intention was to actually combine the meeting with one more summer barbeque given that we had an extremely successful bbq in May when we officially kicked off the alumni group … long story short – we decided to do a breakfast event instead as this is the format in which all general body meetings will be modeled after.
The hot items on the agenda were a good old intro session. The icebreaker was interesting – something about everyone standing in a circle and adding an adjective (noun, shmoun, whatever) in from of their name e.g. adventurous Andrea, dynamic Dez … and everyone in the circle had to remember not only everyone’s name but also the little adjective the person chose to put in front of their names. Needless to say it got very comical. The meeting featured and explanation of our goals as a chapter, the things we have accomplished so far and upcoming stuff. (the powerpoint preso is available HERE)
Our first speaker was Mr Zuberi White who spoke on investing. He definitely oozed pure wisdom, Wise man I tell you. His stuff was solid and participation from the meeting attendees was great. Couldn’t have played out any better than it did. Our good friend Devaris threw in a lot of tips – he definitely has walked the investing earth and all in all it was a very informative session. Towards the end of the meeting suggestions were taken on future topics and some of the ones that seemed to shine were patents, real estate, handling workplace drama, diversity at work, interview techniques, even more about investing, …
At the end of the day, the meeting was great – good attendance, great company, ridiculous stories (you wont believe half the stuff that is out there), comedians all over the place, great vibes – very lovely event. October’s meeting should definitely be something to look forward to.
Well – talk about history is over. Lets talk about what’s coming up.
10.06.2006 – POWER LUNCH (yes, this is like in two days from now)
Well, you know what power lunch is all about. How about I tell you where its gonna be. Drumroll please! We shall be having Mongolian BBQ. The location is over in Santa Clara at 3380 El Camino Real, CA, 95051. Time: 11:30 – 1:00PM. Click HERE for more on this place (BTW, my picture is on the wall in this place)
10.06.2006 – In conjunction with San Jose State BASE, we will be taking a couple of PCI kids over to EA Sports so that they can see that it really isn’t all that bad being a geeky computer engineer.
10.06.2006 – Ira Dearing who happens to be a very important NSBE associate who is also on the San Francisco Opera board invites us all to attend THIS free opera event at Stanford.
10.08.2006 - One of our members, Kevin Jones, invites everyone to show up for a play "The taming of the shrew" put up by the African American Shakespeare Company. Check out THIS link for more details.
10.15.2006 – In an effort to give back to our community, we will be participating in the annual Silicon Valley AIDS walk. Please join us in supporting this cause either by:
1. Joining our team “NSBE Silicon Valley Alumni Extension” HERE
All the materials you require to solicit monies are available from the web address above or you can download them from our yahoo group
2. Sponsoring any of our walkers. Click HERE and take your pick
1 comment:
hmmm I wonder when the next meeting is???
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