By Roger "Denny" Ramses
The shift started out a little slow but traffic picked up a little as the afternoon progressed. The people that we spoke to while we were at the booth were an interesting mix. There were a number of families with children that we were able to discuss the PCI programs with, and I think several of them seemed pretty interested in getting their kids involved in the programs. Actually a few of the parents and grandparents that I spoke to had already heard about the PCI programs at San Jose State and they were happy to find a way of connecting with the organization. The children and adolescents that came to the booth enjoyed the science demos despite our somewhat feeble attempts at explaining them.
There were also a number of people who came by who were either engineers or had relatives who were engineers. A lot of these people were also already familiar with NSBE and they were happy to discover the alumni chapter restarting. One lady who stopped by was actually a past member of the Silicon Valley AE chapter and she had some interesting anecdotes about days gone by.
So overall it was a good day and hopefully a few people will become affiliated with NSBE because we were out there. It might have been nice to have a little more visibility, but I think we were pretty successful anyway.
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I wasn't at the table during the day when there was a lot of people traffic I think the 10-2 shift was too early. We did move the table from the inside of the non-profit area to the perimeter, around 1 pm, so our table could be more visible because initially no one was coming by. Cory and I spent hours on the robot, the during the week, but the sun light ended up not allowing the sensors to work, why I don't really know, but I had a video of the robot actually working and it was playing on the laptop at the table. I spent probably 30 minutes programming the robot at the table to do a simple route that just used the servos not the the sensors.
There were only a hand full of people that came to the table, after the move to the outside, and actually inquiring about NSBE or PCI. The last 30 minutes or so of my shift I actually had to start conversations with the few people walking by the non-profit area to get them interested in what NSBE had to offer because the robot and the lemon-lime project wasn't really attracting people to get them interested in NSBE ...but people did have a sugar tooth and wanted to grab candy. On the plus side it was a nice day, people seemed pretty peaceful, and I had a huge smoke turkey leg to eat after me shift :D
Seitu Barron
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