1. Eastern Illinois University Student Chapter Presents Eelias Building a student chapter Building a student chapter

2. Overview • About Our Chapter • Keys To Success • How to Get Started • Questions and Answers

3. Our Club… • 49 Current Student Members • 8 Member Executive Board, 2 Faculty Advisors

4. ExecutiveBoard • President – Elias “E” Sahyouni • Vice President – Brad Saribekian • Secretary – Samson Hille • Treasurer – Andy Brachear • Student Representative – Zach Caskey • Speaker/Workshop Chair – Stephanie Evenson • Fundraising Chair – Jae Michels • Website Chair – Steve Gatses

5. Keys To Success • Must be able to offer members something • They must get value out of their membership! • Networking • Workshops • Free Stuff! • Potential Jobs • Tours • Professional Development

6. AITP@EIU • LAN Party/ Wii/ Rockband/ Food!! • Windows 7 Workshop • Folding @ Home Workshop • Virtual Machines Workshop • Consolidated Communications Speaker • EIU ITS Tour • Archer Daniels Midland Tour • Networking with IT Professionals Day • Information Systems Intern Panel • National Collegiate Conference • Final member meeting Pot Luck • FAH Prizes!

7. Make Guarantees • Guarantee your members opportunities others won’t have • 1 on 1 time with recruiters • Tours • Exposure to relevant/current technology (workshops)

8. Give Back through Philanthropic Activities • SCORE Work • Websites for other RSO’s/Entities • AITP Tutors in the School of Business • Folding@Home • Setting up Labs for MIS Classes • Co-host for 2010 NCC!!!!!!!

9. Be Diverse • Be open to all majors if possible • Make sure events are diverse (e.g. our LAN party) • Always ask for member opinions and include them in the planning of events

10. Plan, Plan, Plan • Create SOP’s for the club • Website – keep it current • Keep an updated calendar • Communicate through broadcast messages • Have “business” and “social” meetings

11. How You Can Get Started • Find out where opportunities exist • Build relationships with companies (or what schools can your company team with?) • Find where you have connections! • Alumni, Friends, Family, Faculty • Relationships create mutual benefit • Make your organization known at your school • Give back, Have Events, Advertise • Go to “intro” level classes to recruit • Go to MIS/CIS Classes • RSO Day on Campus (get your name out)

12. Association ofIT Professionals@ EIU Questions?? AITP @ EIU Website: http://www.eiu.edu/~aitp Email contact: aitp@eiu.edu “Plug into the Professional Network”

13. Pictures from events @ EIU

22. Networking with IT Professionals Day, Spring 2010