[Robotgroup] Idea for more members

[Andre Lamothe]

I am sure people have thought of this, but one thing about all the groups I 
have attended, IEEE, programming, game dev, whatever. They tend to have 
speakers fairly often talking about something, teaching a subject after or 
before the meeting. I know that the robot group is always trying to find 
ways to entice new members to join, so I think that this would be a really 
cool feature of the group?

I was thinking maybe every other week a 20-30 mins PPT lecture/with PC if 
needed on "X" during the social time after all the what's going on and show 
and tell parts. This way, there would always be a semi-formal learning 
element to the meetings. Those that want to watch can, those that don't can 
socialize outside the room, so the speaker can have the floor. I bet there 
are tons of UT students working on cool projects, local company men that are 
nerds that would love to talk about their latest and greatest. And just, it 
would be cool to have little mini lectures on microcontrollers, .making a 
PCB, microsoft .Net development, mechanical engineering, materials, 
whatever. If it works out, it could be an every meeting part of the group, 
so everyone always learns something when they attend --- 

I would be willing to lecture on a number of tech topics for example.

The ACC gamedev group does this for example here, and the rooms are always 
packed.

Andre'