ACM Student- Chapter

Objectives

• ★ Student Chapters provide unique opportunities for networking, mentoring and bonding over common interests
• ★ They provide support both within the student community and to local communities outside the institution

Student Chapter Resources and Benefits:

The following benefits are available to all types of ACM Student Chapters; they include:

Administrative Interface – allowing you to manage your chapter’s member roster, update your chapter’s contact information, and much more!

Chapter Web Tools – ACM offers Chapters the following web tools: website hosting, wikis and blogs. For more information please go to: http://www.acm.org/chapters/chapter-web-tools

Local Activities Calendar – You can let chapter members, ACM members, and other computing professionals, know about your

upcoming events: http://campus.acm.org/public/chapters_conf_cal/index.cfm

Chapters can submit chapter events through the Chapter Administrative Interface at https://campus.acm.org/chapter_admin. Simply login with your Chapter Web Account and choose ‘Add’ in the ‘Chapter Events/Local Activities Calendar’ box

Chapter Member Locator– If a group of chapter organizers do not have enough members (10 in total are needed), ACM will send a message to a selected group of ACM members that might be interested in helping to start the Chapter. Please contact local_activities@acm.org if you are interested in this service.

ACM Distinguished Speakers Program – The ACM Distinguished Speaker Program is one of the premier technology outreach programs in the computing industry. The ACM DSP has over 250 lectures from nearly 100 different speakers! For more information, please visit: http://www.dsp.acm.org/

UPE/ACM Student Chapter Scholarship Award – Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Honorary Computer Science Society, and ACM encourage academic excellence for students in the computing discipline. UPE initiated this award with ACM to raise the importance of academic achievement and professional commitment in our future computer professionals. Up to two awards of $1,000 each are given from UPE each year to competition winners. Winners also receive a certificate of commendation.

ACM Student Chapter Excellence Program – This program recognizes outstanding ACM student chapters in several categories. Chapters that display considerable initiative during the academic year are encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit: http://www.acm.org/chapters/student-chapter-excellence-awards

Promotional Materials – ACM can provide Chapters with materials for Chapter events: http://campus.acm.org/public/profqj/promotional_materials.cfm

Expected Outcomes

• ★ ACM is more focused towards computing and CS related fields like Data Analytics, Programming, Data Mining, Web and Software.
• ★ Expertise in configuring host and network by ensuring security for latest techniques
• ★ The students are motivated to create animations, video games and play games..
• ★ Students improve their creativity in visualizing scenes