[Robotgroup] Idea for more members

[john at cozmicfunk.com]

Kind of a mixture of ACC game dev, 3DS users group and 
Dorkbot/Makerfaire. Hmmm...

Because show n tell at robot group already allows this and to have the 
guest speak afterwards with all the clamor going on would be 
distracting. We want to really respect and honor the guests coming to 
lecture.

I would suggest a formal once a month/every other month activity to host 
the Guest speaker and have a bigger room than the one at Heritage.
JPF

Andre Lamothe wrote:
> 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'
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