STARTING NUS ACM CHAPTER

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STARTING NUS ACM CHAPTER
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Todays Agenda

• Presentation by Alok Ranjan Singh
• Discussion on proposed activities
• Administrative stuff
• QA

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Steps in starting up an ACM chapter

• Form a group of at least ten (10) interested
  students, willing to participate in activities
  and carry out the chapter's mission.
• Find an ACM professional member to sponsor your
  chapter. This person could be a professor in your
  school.
• Elect four (4) officers out of your group to run
  chapter business. At least three of the
  petitioning officers must be student members of
  ACM.

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Steps in starting up an ACM chapter

• Begin the chartering process by completing the
  petition, bylaws, and first year activity plan.
• Finally email the bylaws and activity plan to
  Local Activities, and mail the petition with
  signatures, signed form, and hard copies of the
  bylaws and activity plan to the address below.

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Petition

• Whats a petition?
• Its the application to the ACM to recognize us
  as an official Student Chapter of the ACM
• http//www.acm.org/chapters/stu/petition.html

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Bylaws

• Bylaws is a constitution kind of document
  mentioning the laws/rules that our student
  chapter of ACM will be following.
• http//www.acm.org/chapters/stu/sample-by-laws.htm
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First Year Activity Plan

• It is a formal description of the activities that
  we are planning to do in the first year of the
  operation of our student chapter.
• This is the main topic of discussion in todays
  meeting
• http//www.acm.org/chapters/firstyrplan.doc

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First Year Activity Plan

• ACM itself suggests a number of activities for a
  student chapter which include social and
  educational activities, career development, fund
  raising and community service.
• The list of suggested activities can be found
  here
• http//www.acm.org/chapters/stu/why_join.html

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Proposed Activities

• JC Visits 2 each year
• Organizing talks 2 each year
• Helping charitable organizations like VWOs 2
  projects in first year
• Mentoring of junior students
• Any suggestions for more activities?

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THIS IS THE BEGINNING!