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Website: acm-msu.github.io
Contact: [email protected]
ACM@MSU organizes tech talks, presentations, and other events with industry professionals and instructors from MSU to foster a community of developers. ACM@MSU also aims to provide material supplemental to classes with industry standard utilities like git, data visualization techniques with D3.js, workshops covering Haskell and much more.
Website: cse.msu.edu/msuwic
Contact: [email protected]
Michigan State University Women in Computing (MSU WIC) is an organization of students and faculty (both men and women) who work to recruit, support, and retain women in computing fields. If you are interested in computing, we would love to see you at our next meeting! We host many events during the semester including tech talks from visiting companies, Lean In Circles, Girl Scout workshops, web development workshops, social events, and more. Check out our calendar and events below to keep up to date or like us on Facebook by searching MSU WIC.
Website: fb.com/hack.at.state
Contact: [email protected]
Spartan Hackers exists to foster a community of technological innovation, collaboration, and creation at Michigan State University.
Website: 17.spartahack.com
Contact: [email protected]
SpartaHack organizes the annual hackathon at MSU, a 36-hour event with dozens of sponsors taking place in early Spring semester. There's food, swag, projects, cool tech and cool talks. They're always looking for organizers to join their team as it's no easy job putting everything together.
The student representatives are your connection to the faculty and administration of the Computer Science department. You should contact them if you have concerns, questions or ideas regarding curriculum or faculty interactions.
The current roster for the student representatives follows:
| Position | Name | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advisory Committee (UN) | Riley Annis | [email protected] | ||
| Advisory Committee (GR) | Hamid Karimi | [email protected] | ||
| Computer Environment Committee (UN) | Jason Brownell | [email protected] | ||
| Computer Environment Committee (GR) | Sari Sadiya | [email protected] | ||
| Curriculum Committee (UN) | Jacob Fenton | [email protected] | ||
| Department Committee (GR) | Steven Jorgensen | [email protected] | ||
| Department Committee (UN) | Alexana Stek | [email protected] | ||
| Grad. Studies and Research Committee | Kurt A. O'Hearn | [email protected] |
The MSU CS Facebook group is a great community for all things related to CS. Questions about classes, schedules, events, what progamming languages to learn in your spare time, when you're stuck on a project. As an added bonus all the clubs post their events there, so it's a fairly centralized way to get your event info.
This is a little tricky. You first have to be a member of the MSU Community Page, which requires that you add your @msu.edu email to your Facebook contact info (privately is fine). Otherwise you won't be able to see the CS page at all.
ACM elects their board members at the end of fall semester, before winter break. This is done so there is some overlap between former board members and incoming board members to ease the transition and help address any unexpected problems that may arise. This also means it's very easy to quickly get involved with ACM's board.
SpartaHack is MSU's yearly student-organized hackathon. It takes place in the Spring Semester, typically in early February. Dozens of companies sponsor and attend the hackathon, including Dell, Microsoft, Namecheap, Amazon and Microsoft. Attendance has been free in the past several years and SpartaHack often offers assistance with travel for those attending from other universities.
You can nominate fellow students or yourself for a student representative position in late March or early April. Elections take place in late April, which are open to all CSE majors. You can see the available positions from the roster above. You are encouraged to run for and vote for representatives as they are your liaisons to the administration for the college, and your best avenue for communication regarding issues you may have.