104 lines
3.9 KiB
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104 lines
3.9 KiB
Markdown
## Events
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### Overview
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## Semester 1
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### meet_greet.exe
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- Introductory event to the society.
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- Idea was to give a taste of future events and a social mixer.
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- Venue: We booked KBG15 from 18:00-21:00.
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- Announced via Discord and emails.
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### Skynet Introduction
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- Introductory event to Skynet.
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- Idea was to help members with setting up their accounts.
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- Venue: Room 3 to allow enough room for incoming members.
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- Members were required to bring their laptops to set up their Skynet accounts.
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### Capture The Flag
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- Interactive Event: Members were asked to bring their laptops to participate in the event.
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- Venue: Room 3 was booked to allow appropriate space for our participants
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- Email and Discord announcements were written to advertise the event.
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### Movie Night
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- Because it was Halloween, we decided to organise a movie night being projected.
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- Venue: Room 3 was booked to allow enough room for our participants.
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- We made a post on Discord and wrote an Email to advertise to our members.
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- We asked our members to vote for which movie they wanted to watch on Discord.
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- The movie that members picked out was Donnie Darko.
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- We got permission from the office first before showing the movie.
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- After we got permission to show the movie to our members, we acquired popcorn beforehand and used the microwave outside Room 3 to cook it.
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### Pycon
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- A large event that had plenty of organisational overhead, and was a trip to Dublin.
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- We lodged in the membership money for newer members who joined after the announcement for Pycon.
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- Bought event tickets and tote bags.
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- We applied for the trip's approval through Wolves.
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- Sent emails to Pycon to get group tickets.
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- Event costs were subsidized for members as a result.
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- Payments were tracked through wolves and processed online.
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### Game Engines - Presentation
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- Presentation about game engines; rehearsed beforehand.
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- Venue: Room 3 for participants.
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- Email had been written with some humor to enhance member engagement.
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### Advent of Code
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- Long-term running series of events, throughout December and early 2nd semester.
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- Useful to giving first years more coding experience.
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- 2 posters were made, and sent by emails.
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- Our own leaderboard was created for our members to compete, code for it was emailed separately.
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- We had a in-person as a primer to prepare members for the event.
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- Coding challenges released with Advent of Code and members were given the chance to solve them.
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- Separate forum topic was created on Discord for this purpose, members received help with the programming challenges.
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## Semester 2
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### Lightning Talks - Co-op
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- Lightning talks from students who were returning from Co-op.
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- Each talk was set to a maximum of five minutes.
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- Goal was to have a relaxing social event to promote networking.
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- Venue: Room 3, we had plenty of members and speakers coming in.
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- We had pizza at the end to cap it off.
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- We announced it via emails and a Discord announcement.
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### Film Night
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- An event proposed by a member.
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- The movie in question was an hour-long video about Randy Pausch's last lecture on achieving your dreams.
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- Venue: Room 3 to allow enough room and chairs for members.
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- We purchased popcorn beforehand and cooked it in the microwave outside Room 3.
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- We advertised it via emails and Discord announcements.
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### Minecraft LAN
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- Firstly we had a brief presentation on how to install a mod for voice chat in Minecraft, then helped people to join the server.
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- Members were required to have a Minecraft account and a Minecraft Launcher installed.
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- Members also required a Discord account in the CompSoc server.
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- Members also had to link their Discord account to their ULWolves email to access our Minecraft Server.
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- This event occurred right after an EGM so plenty of members had arrived.
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- We ordered some pizza as well to cap off the event.
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### Quiz with Games Dev
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### Licenses Presentation
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### Minecraft Server Event
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### Domain + Hosting
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### Treasure Hunt
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### Virtual Machines
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### RetroPi
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