Thank you to all those who attended our November chapter meeting this past Tuesday! And a huge thanks to Tyler Moyer and Asad Raza of CooMo Travel for talking with us about being a startup here in Austin!
Don’t forget this Saturday the 10th is our November social. We will be tailgating the upcoming Texas State football game starting at 9am, we hope to see y’all there!
This year, Texas State AITP traveled to compete in the annual AITP Regional Competition held in Amarillo, Texas. Thank you to all those who attended and competed and Congrats to our winners!
Check out some of the highlights below
Tuesday November 6th we will host our monthly chapter meeting in LBJ 3-9.1. Come get free pizza and drinks! With a guest presentation from CooMo Travel.
Saturday November 10th we are hosting our November social via tailgating for the Texas State game! We hope you guys can come out and support our chapter and football team!
Thank you for another great year with hundreds of high school guests from all across Texas!
We want to thank all of our staff and volunteers who represented the CIS Department, Career Services, ITAC at TxState, and of course our sponsors RBFCU, Samsung, and McCoy’s Building Supply!
This year was a great success with over 350 attendees, thank you to all who made it!
Here are this years contest winners:
2018 Texas State AITP IT Symposium Winners:
Computer Security
1st) Bryan Pinedo (Southwest HS)
2nd) Avan Peltier (SouthWest HS)
3rd) Seth Brogden (Montgomery HS)
Java
1st) Zebulon McCorkle (Brenham HS)
2nd) Vincent Nguyen (John B. Connally HS)
3rd) Benjamin Pham (Hendrickson HS)
HM) Sean Cantwell (La Grange HS)
HM) Jairo Soto Lopez (La Grange HS)
Excel
1st) Allison Gutierrez (Southwest HS)
2nd) Felix Brooks (Southwest HS)
3rd) Molly Bennett (La Grange HS)
PC Troubleshooting
1st) Allison Maddox(Southwest HS)
2nd) Abram Perez (Southwest HS)
3rd) Jake Randall (Pflugerville HS)
Access
1st) Molly Bennett (La Grange HS)
Tomorrow we have our October Social event at The Spot in San Marcos!
If you think you’re a good bowler or just want to hang out come meet us at:
1180 Thorpe Ln #130, San Marcos, TX 78666
We hope to see you there!
Thanks to all of our members who came out to this Month’s chapter meeting! Even more so, we’d like to thank Randy Sabbagh and Taji Hall from Charles Schwab for coming out and speaking with us. It was very insightful learning about the company culture at Charles Schwab, and the many great internship and opportunities available to Texas State students!
We are still looking for volunteers for the IT Symposium on October the 19th. We are offering up to 20 points for anyone who’s able to come! If you’re looking to go to the USITCC Nationals in the spring, these points will help you reach discount goals.
If you are interested in attending regions October 25th- October 27th, below are the required documents. Registration forms are due no later than October 11th.
It’s the start of a new month and with it a new Chapter Meeting!
This Tuesday, October 2nd we will have our second chapter meeting in LBJ 3-9.1 starting at 5pm. Randy Sabbagh and Taji Hall from Charles Schwab are coming to speak with us, so bring any questions you might have!
Thanks to all of our members who came to any of our events this week! Geek Week was a huge success and it’s great to see a bunch of new faces!
Here’s a quick recap and reminders for the next few weeks.
We’d like to thank James Hunter and Clayton Bynum from USAA for coming out and talking with us. Both Clayton and James are Bobcat Alumni, and provided incredible insight into how a large, long-standing company like USAA is still able to innovate.
We are extremely thankful for their insight to our questions, and to USAA as a whole.(And thanks for the Pizza!)
Big shout out to our VP of Corporate Relations, Sam Ciaramitaro, for hosting a fantastic Resume Workshop! We hope the attendees now have a better understanding of what makes an IT resume. Thanks again Sam!
Thursday we had our officer panel where we delved deeper into what we do at AITP and answered any questions you guys might have.
If you have any remaining questions just send us an email!
We also had our first Social event of the semester at Grins! Big thank you to those who attended! We hope you enjoyed getting to know us better here at AITP(and the free appetizers!)
We are extremely excited for this Fall semester with everything in store for you guys. Guest speakers, Geek Week , and social events! We have lots of opportunities to learn, have fun, and earn points.
Geek Week:
Geek week, the Texas State AITP’s chapters annual recruiting event is back for the week of September 4-6th. Our first Chapter Meeting, a Resume Workshop session, Officer Panel, and our first Social are all taking place. Please attend and join AITP: for career, networking and social opportunities. Check the above Flyer for more information!
Dues:
If you haven’t paid your dues or just recently joined AITP, make sure you pay your dues! Fees are $25 and are due by September the 21st!
Check the Calendar:
With all of the exciting opportunities coming up, make sure you check our calendar frequently so that you don’t miss a thing! And if you have any questions on involvement or specifics, shoot us an e-mail at info@txstateaitp.com.
We are looking forward to a fantastic fall semester!
2018 TxState AITP IT Symposium Invitation
As a chapter we finished off this year with an incredible appreciation banquet at Mamacita’s! Texas State staff and Our Lady of the Lake University joined us for food and fun. Door prizes were awarded to many lucky attendees and even valuable scholarships to a select few. We’d like to congratulate our own Texas State AITP chapter Treasurer, Monica Sandoval, for winning a scholarship award this year! We also recognized winners from this years USITCC and members who had participated head and shoulders above the rest.
We had the joy of Mark Mills from PayPal joining us to deliver a keynote speech! He spoke about his years of experience with companies like Whole Foods, PayPal, and even the landscape of consulting during the .com boom and subsequent bust. On behalf of the chapter we would like to thank Mr. Mills for his time and wisdom.
To wrap up the banquet we sent off our seniors with their graduation cords. We have a lot of members graduating this upcoming week and will miss their participation dearly. We wish the best for every graduating senior and look forward to seeing what they accomplish in the future! Check out the photos below for snapshots from the entire night.
For all of our members, THANK YOU for an incredible year and best of luck on all your finals. Have a great summer and we look forward to seeing you in the fall!!
