What We’re Going Over:

• Byte-le Programming Competition 2024
• Spring Kickoff + Game Night
• Spring Involvement Expo
• SIG-Collab
• CSO Budget
• Professor Talk Spotlight Update
• Github Workshop

What We Went Over:

• Bank Account
  • $841.57
• Byte-le Programming Competition 2024
  • Attendance
    • UND will have two teams coming to NDSU for competing!
  • Budget
    • $2000.00!
    • Budget was raised thanks to sponsors from companies, as well as alumni, board members, and current ACM members! Thank you!
    • Looking at about:
      • 1st place: $275 per team member
      • 2nd place: $150 per team member
      • 3rd place: $75 per team member
      • Prizes will be in amazon cards
    • More donations from today on will go to next years Byte-le
  • Advertising
    • Will be reaching out to classes to advertise, as well as sending out emails to undergrads
    • Setting up posters for Byte-le
  • Website
    • Will add business sponsors to website
    • Update prizes and donators on website
    • Update Python requirement 3.10 -> 3.11
    • Time changes for when competition starts
  • Time
    • Time for Byte-le will still be at 10am, Saturday, January 27th
• Spring Kickoff + Game Night
  • Looking at other catering options for this kickoff and game night
    • Have set with Jimmy John’s for catering
    • Order has been placed
• Spring Involvement Expo
  • We will be holding our booth during the Spring Involement Expo January 24th!
  • Will be getting more ducks for this event as well (thanks Gabe)
  • We have a majority of material for this expo ready
• SIG-Collab
  • Current Projects:
    • Bison Robotics Website Design
    • Byte-le Revamp 2.0
  • Will put off Library Database project due to conflicts with servers
• CSO Budget
  • CSO Budget has been submitted
  • Money will be provided before next semester
• Professor Talk Spotlight Update
  • Placing the Professor Talk Spotlights on hold currently since many events will be occuring very soon
  • Proposed idea for one Professor Talk Spotlight per year, starting a new event that occurs every year
• ACM Merch
  • Will be reusing old designs for merch this semester
• Github Workshop
  • Planned for a series of workshops on learning Github in February
  • These workshops will cover how to use Github and work with the version control
  • These workshops will be held by board members and ACM member “Github Gurus”

Board TO DO:

• Look into one professor talk spotlight per year
• Work on ACM merch

Upcoming Events

• Spring Kickoff - January 19th, starting at 5:30pm, QBB104
• Spring Involvement Expo - January 24th, 10am - 2pm, Memorial Union Ballroom
• Byte-le Programming Competition - January 27th, starting 10am
• FAST Corp-talk - February 5th, 5:30pm, QBB104
• Github Workshops
  • Will be a three week event, taking place every Friday between February 9th - February 23rd at 5:30pm in QBB104