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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!

The ITM Club would like to extend a HUGE Thank You to Pizza Papalis in  Dearborn for all of their generous help (and delicious pizza) during our USO fundraiser.

We were able to raise a good amount of donations for our troops during the week of April 11-17, bringing the ITM Club’s total donations for the USO to over $1,000 for the year!!

Thank You to everyone who participated.

On Friday, March 11, 2011, the ITM club held it’s 2nd annual Winter 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. Over 40 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 a total of $249 for the Club!!

Thank you to everyone who attended this event.

We look forward to our future Bowling events, including our 2nd annual Fall Bowling fundraiser and our 3rd annual Winter Bowling fundraiser, which are both scheduled for the 2011-2012 school year!

The second annual Professional Development Week (Jan 31-Feb 4, 2011), was a week-long event that was planned and organized by all University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Business student organizations. Our goal in this week was to assist students (the future leaders) in picking up professional skills through workshops and presentations, as well as networking with professionals from well-known companies.

The week kicked off with a Hallway Fair, where all of the College of Business student organizations ran a table. The goal of this event was to have fun with other students and tell them about Professional Development Week.  Well-known companies were also there to recruit potential employers. Marathon Oil was there to recruit IT students.

The week also consisted of a Speed Networking event, in which professionals from all fields of business visited the University to speak with students.

“Recover, Rebuild, Reform” was the theme of a panel discussion to conclude the week-long event. The discussion focused on how young adults can contribute to the growth and re-invention of Michigan’s economic status. The panel consisted of the Dean of the College of Business, Kim Schatzel, as well as other business executives from the Metro Detroit area.

On Thursday, January 13, 2011 several members of the ITM Club were invited to attend Inforum’s “She’s Just Not That Into You: Transforming the Auto Industry into the Destination of Choice for High-Talent Women” at the Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit. After the program concluded, members of the club had the distinguished honor to meet UM President Coleman and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow!

Donate to the USO and make a positive difference in the lives of our troops!

All money raised will help fund Operation Phone Home program for our men and women in uniform. Operation Phone Home was established in 2003 and has made a world of difference to those service men and women who have been deployed to other countries. The program takes donations to provide our service men and women with calling cards so they can call home. Since the USO has been working on the program for the past 7 years, they have even been able to develop a private telephone network (PTN) which is also funded based on donations.

The UMD ITM Club would like to keep track of its members and their participation in the club for this upcoming semester. If you have not already given us this information, please fill out this info and email it to pcdean@umd.umich.edu.