How To Start Your Student Tech Club

Student Tech Clubs
How to create your Student Tech Club

Agenda
What is aStudent Tech Club?
How to start Student Tech Club
Get Registered
Get Prepared
Get Efficient
Recommendation: Meeting Criteria (1)
Engage Participants
Engage Presenters
Tips and Tricks

What is a Student Tech Club?
Group of like-minded persons
Geographically close (same campus, same university, same city)
Passion/interest for new technologies
Readiness for knowledge sharing
Expanding of social sphere
Good place for communication and getting new knowledge

How-to start a Student Tech Club
Get support from your school if you can
Create a core team – people who are ready to present and to help with organizing meetings
Make meetings periodical. This helps you to:
Create a strategy for your STC development
Discuss topics for presentations
Solve other strategic and organizational questions

Get Registered
Start today:
Find a couple of friends that share your same passion
Go to www.studenttechclubs.com and log in
Create your Student Tech Club
Invite your friends to join as well

Get Prepared
It’s about technology so start with a technology presentation
Prepare presentation about interesting topic for you
Find a facility with projector
You can ask your academic advisor, professor or department
Invite your course mates
Make a presentation and ask you audience for any feedback using the Surveys in the platform
More details on other slides

Be Efficient
Use your site efficiently
Ask all participants to register at the site
Register every meeting
Register every presentation
Start a mail newsletter to all participants through site infrastructure

Choose the day for your meetings and try not to change it later
Recommendatoin:
Find out meeting days for other groups in your school
Find out the learning schedule at your department. They might have a free room.
Don’t do it on Sunday
Regularity of meetings:
It’s better to have 1-2 meetings per month

The meeting location should have the following:
Projector
Screen
Chairs
Internet (optional)
The size of room should be relevant for the audience.
Make sure that all participants can attend your meeting.

We had great experiences on evenings, between 6:00 PM and 9:00PM. At this time most of students don’t have lectures
Start with short presentations and then make them longer.
Start with 1 hour + 15 min for Q&A

Engage Participants
Subject forums– Post messages about new meetings
Blog posts– Post messages and more content in your blogs.
Subject sites – ask specific sites to post information about meetings
Viral marketing– tell your fellows about the meeting and ask them to tell their fellows

Engage Presenters
Create a coreof presentersfrom STC leaders and MSPs at your University or search for a speaker in the SPEAKER list on the STC portal.
At every meeting offer members to make presentations.
Microsoft speakers – engage Microsoft representatives to make presentations.
MSP – engage MSPs from other Universities at your city
MVPs - ask Microsoft representatives to bring MVPs to your presentations.

Tips and Tricks
Talk about the latest technologies
Create discussion and study groups
Easier to learn together
Give back to your community
Work together in a community project (web app for a high school, local library, hospital, etc)
Go to your high school to teach basic programming

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How To Start Your Student Tech Club

by Lee Stott on Apr 23, 2011

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