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Justin Esgar, C.E.O. of Autriv Software Development and Virtua Computers, Inc. took time out of his schedule to Skype in to our Winter semester kick-off meeting on January 18, 2012. Justin started his career by creating an ipad app called “SignMyPad”- a PDF signature app which currently sells on the itunes app store. During the meeting, Justin presented the ITM Club with some great information, including career advice and information about his company. He told us his story, how he developed his company, and how SignMyPad came to be. We look forward to meeting with more IT professionals, both in person and via Skype at future meetings.

 Next Club meeting:

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 3:00pm in 182FCS

The 3rd Annual ITM Club Winter Bowling Fundraiser will be held

Friday, March 9, 2012 at 9:00pm

Woodland Lanes
33775 Plymouth Rd.
(West of Farmington Rd.)
Livonia, MI 48150

Cost is $20 per person for 3 games of Bowling, shoe rental, pizza, and pop.

Come join the ITM Club at the lanes for a great time!

For more info, contact Kyle (734)-560-1205 or email kjbridge@umd.umich.edu

RSVP by signing up HERE

On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, the ITM club went on a tour of Google HQ in Ann Arbor.

The tour took us through Google’s offices, including the kitchen, stocked with tons of fresh local foods, a massage therapist on staff giving Googlers free massages whenever they want, and their new environmentally friendly rooftop dining area! 

Thank you to the 11 people who attended this event.  We look forward to touring Google’s facilities again soon.

During Homecoming week, the ITM club participated in the 2nd annual cardboard boat race along with 7 other student organizations. The college of Business was represented well, as both the ITM Club and our friends from AMA participated in the event. Although we were not the fastest boat, we won our heat and even made it through the entire race without sinking!! Although our friends from AMA were not so lucky (good thing for life vests!), we made sure to cheer them on in their race as well. The ITM Club did win “The most spirited team award” for our Pirate themed team uniforms, boat design, and team spirit. “Arr Matey!”

Last year the ITM Club won the same award for our Lifeguard team uniforms. We were very convincing lifeguards!

HiredMyWay, a sponsor of the ITM Club, can show you just how easy it is for YOU to find a job!!

They are a rapidly expanding company based out of Metro Detroit, which uses the token system to post and send resumes to employers. Users can also recommend people for a job, which in return gets you a cash bonus of up to $4,000!

On Friday, October 21, 2011, the ITM club held it’s 3rd annual Fall Bowling fundraiser at Woodland Lanes in Livonia.

The event included 3 games of Glow in the dark Bowling, food, prizes, and a lot of fun. In all, 55 people attended the event, including several club members and our faculty advisor. This was by far our best turnout yet for a Bowling fundraiser! Overall, between the 50/50 raffle and the money from admission, we raised an OUTSTANDING total of $920 for the Club!! That’s more than all of our past Bowling fundraisers combined!!

The money will be put towards our trip to the AIS student conference in Provo, Utah in April.

Thank you to everyone who attended this event.

We look forward to our future Bowling events, including our 3rd annual Winter Bowling fundraiser, which is scheduled for Friday, March 9, 2012!

The ITM Club gained new publicity recently, being featured as the student Spotlight for the month of September 2011 in the Midwest Association for Information Systems Newsletter. The article highlighted some of the scholastic and professional activities among the club, portraying the club as “Being the Club Where Students Want To Be”.

Below is a copy of the feature:

The annual AIS’s Americas Conference on Information Systems was in our own backyard this year, and the ITM Club wanted to be involved in any way we possibly could! Several members of the club helped out as student volunteers at the August 4-7 conference at the GM RenCen in Downtown Detroit, taking on a variety of tasks from working the registration desk to working with paper and poster sessions. The conference also gave club members the chance to attend the conference, sit in on paper sessions, attend social events, and network with other students and scholars from around the world! Our faculty advisor, Lise Urbaczewski was named the new Vice President of Student Chapters, and hosted a student chapter meet and greet at the conference on Thursday. The conference especially gave us a chance to network with schools and chapters in and around the Metro Detroit area, such as Oakland University, Wayne State University, and the University of Windsor. We are so grateful for this exciting experience the AIS has offered us and so very lucky to have the conference in our neighborhood this year! This is the 2nd AIS conference that club members have had the opportunity to attend this year, as several club members also attended AIS’s 2010 International Conference on Information Systems in St. Louis, MO in December.

On Wednesday, April 13th, 2011, The University of Michigan-Dearborn held its 31st annual Student Leadership Awards at Kochoff Hall in the University Center. The ITM Club and its members were nominated for several group and individual awards. Overall, the club and its members took home a multidue of awards.

Here are the winners representing the ITM Club:

• Service Learning Certificate Recipient – Phil Dean
• Leadership Synergy Certificate Recipient – Phil Dean
• Leadership Synergy Certificate Recipient – Claire DeLisle
• Leadership Synergy Certificate Recipient – Kyle Bridges
• Leadership Synergy Certificate Recipient – Tina Hewlett
• Leadership Legacy Certificate Recipient – Samantha Kleitsch
• Leadership Legacy Certificate Recipient – Hannah Sanday
• UM-Dearborn Difference Maker – Phil Dean
• UM-Dearborn Difference Maker – Claire DeLisle
• Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award Winner – Lise Urbaczewski
• Outstanding Student Program Award Winner – ITM Club Presents: John Gallagher- Re-Imagining Detroit

We would also like to congratulate our friends from all of the other College of Business Student Organizations who won awards. The COB was definitely represented well at the ceremony. Together, we are doing some great things!