On February 27th we will be going to the Renaissance Festival. Please sign the spreadsheet if you would like to go. If we get 20 people to go it will cost $15 per ticket. You have till the 21th to sign up.

For more details on the festival go to this site: http://www.ren-fest.com/deerfield-home.asp

Where: Deerfield beach
Time: TBA

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aq8sg0sXfLwedEp4SkszenM0OGY3Ylk...

ACM will be having it's second general meeting for the semester.
This Thursday February 11th, 2010 at 3:30pm in the ACM room ECS 280.
Everyone is welcome to attend.

Some items we plan to discuss:

* Update on all the SIGs

* iPhone development workshop with Carlos M Icaza

* Summo Bot Competition hosted by UPE

* Projects to present at the Engineering Expo

* Ideas for future tutorials (arduino, learn by taking stuff apart, or anything someone is interested in learning)

* CSO points

* Ideas for any social events

Come join ACM for our annual picnic!

Don't miss out on the free food, games, activities, and beach-side fun!

When? February 6th, 2010. Starting at 1pm
Where? Crandon Park Shelter #2
Who can come? All FIU students are welcome!

Street address is,
4000 Crandon Boulevard
Key Biscayne, FL

Entrance via South Beach

On Thursday, February 4 at 3:30 there will be a town hall meeting with Director Navlakha & Associate Director Weiss. This town hall will act as a Q & A session for students with the Computer Science department's heads. This is a great opportunity to find out what's going on in the c.s. department and I hope you can attend.

Also, ACM, UPE, PLUG have created a facebook page where people can submit questions for Director Navlakha & Associate Director Weiss ahead of time. Please join the page and leave a question.

What: Town Hall Meeting
Where: VH (Viertes Haus) 131

To help the relief efforts in Haiti, UPE and ACM have placed a number of donation boxes around the ECS building.

Please donate canned food and bottled water.

Donation Box Locations:
- the JCCL
- Graduate Lab
- third floor of
ECS building

Every donation helps.

Welcome everyone to the new ACM website!

Please feel free to create an account if you would like. It is not necessary to have an account to be a member.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the professional organization for Computer Science. Any FIU student with an interest in software engineering, multimedia, networking, database management, computer programming, .NET, web development, computer graphics, animation, operating systems, game programming, or any other similar area is welcome to join our chapter.