 My name is a part of Keegan and I'm the peer advisor for computer science engineering and I'm also a junior in computer science engineering. And today we're lucky to be joined by Nesby. Um, do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself? Yeah, so my name is Enoch. I am a senior studying computer science as well. And I currently serve as the president of Nesby. Awesome. Um, so we'll go ahead and get started with like the basics. Um, can you talk a little bit about what Nesby is, what it stands for? Um, and then go into the types of majors and people, um, and the goal of the organization. Yeah, so Nesby is the natural society of black engineers, which mango is focused on increasing the number of black engineers that we produce out in America as well as around the world. And we hope to just essentially kind of guide black students into the engineering field and encourage them before college, during, and after our majors are specifically towards engineering. But we also have stem related majors who wish to get into the engineering field. So, whether that be engineering lawyers or HR, as well as a lot of people who do school information. Um, or business would like to do it as well. That's very cool. And then can you talk a little bit about what types of events you usually host and maybe go into them if you host more social or professional or like a mix of both? Yeah, so for us, we do like a mix of everything. Um, our main events are focused on professional and academic development as well as community outreach towards the Ann Arbor and surrounding communities as well as towards high school and elementary schools. And then we also have different social, um, social programs within the university as well some of the specific events that we have. Um, we host, um, study jams every Sunday with ship. We also do our general body meetings every other Friday. Um, usually the same 16, 10, but besides that, we have just a lot of random events focused on professional development as well as just like letting students know about different academic programs. Some of our staples that we have coming up, we have a backpacking program coming up within about 2 weeks. And we also have just different like panels as well. Perfect. So you mentioned that your general body means aren't specific days. So there are every other Friday. I think you said, is there a specific time that they're also hosted on? Yes. So, um, every, every other Friday will be at 530. Perfect. Okay. Um, and then to go off that too, what is the time commitment? Like being a member of the do you have to attend all events that requirement for members? Or, um, you know, is it you can just attend as many as you're able to? Yeah, so we have kind of 2 types of members. Um, so we like to say, like, member of the lower case and and then with the capital and like the members with the lower case and. You're free to attend any event that you want all the events are like open and free for you to use. There's no commitment towards it. And then we have members of the capital M, which for those who are interested in going to some of our national regional conferences. We have like a requirement of attending, I believe, like 5 general body meetings as well as 3 or 4 other non-general body meetings each semester. Um, and how has it been for you? Um, I guess, managing classes, you know, you mentioned your CSC student as well. Um, how has it been kind of being a leadership position? Or when you were a member, how was that for you? I think in the beginning, it was very difficult navigating it, but once I was able to kind of sit down, organize myself, it wasn't as bad. Um, SB is kind of like 1 of those fun commitments that you want to dedicate your time to a lot. Um, but I think learning how to organize myself was a big thing that I accomplished during my time as president. So, um, towards the spend about, like, 10 hours a week, um, towards just like, and everything, and then the rest goes towards, you know, my academics and other related things. Um, and then you mentioned before that you guys have a national and regional conference or conferences. What are those? I guess, for those people who haven't heard of those, like, what are those? And how are those like? Yeah, so the national regional conferences are like really fun events that help you basically gain skills professionally and also network, which is different people. Um, our fall regional conference is in the fall. Um, so we have that conference within like the region for so we're in our region for so that's some Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, the surrounding areas. And with that, we basically just kind of get together and network with 1 and other also have different types of events. We have career fairs workshops, social and professional workshops. And then we also get to do a little bit of community bonding within our work at Michigan. And then for the national conference, it's kind of a similar, but like on a broader scale with pretty much everyone in area and then regions in Africa. So we basically get together network kind of meet new people connect with professionals, connect with professionals in order who are in the same career field as you. And then, yeah, that sounds like great opportunities. Um, are members sponsored for these or like, how do members, how can members like attend these conferences? Um, yeah, so, as I stated earlier, members who attend a certain amount of GBMs, general body meetings, as well as some of the other events outside of the general body means are able to attend. Depending on the year, it may be sponsored. It may not reduce possible majority of the costs. We try to get it as low as possible, but most of the times there is a little bit of costs associated with attending the program. Yeah, yeah, national and regional conferences on like great opportunities for professional and social. That's really cool. Um, and then going off of that too, what type of professional opportunities do members gain from NSB? I mean, here at U of M, like, what kind of companies come and talk, you had mentioned that before. Um, yes, so we have a lot of all our GBMs, we invite companies to come talk to us. So some of our partners include meta, as well as Bloomberg, partner gamble. And a lot more companies, I can't take off the top of my head, but these companies are there to kind of get to know students and a lot of times from our general body meetings and other events that we hosted, a lot of students get help with their resumes, help with learning how to interview, especially for computer science. We do a lot of technical interview workshops and a lot of our members get jobs to some of the events that we go to, like the national regional conferences, as well as our general body meetings. Awesome. Um, and then with that too, what type of leadership opportunities are there? Is there a specific leadership programs or I guess, like, do you have director positions or things like that that members can join? Yeah, so we have a couple of different leadership opportunities specifically for freshman. We have our junior executive board, which is just freshman who are in charge of networking to other freshmen who may be interested in finding that community of black engineers, but may not know about NSB. We also have what we call a point of positions, which are just chairs that focus on academic excellence, professional development, NSB junior, which is our high school and 6th to 8th grade demographic. And then we have community services as well, and then we have our elected board positions, which are just basically in charge of getting together and planning. And so the typical secretary treasurer as well as president, vice president, and then we also have a programming chair and finance chair as well. Perfect. Okay, so a lot of great leadership opportunities as well. And then for students who want to join, is there a specific way that they need to join the through an application or I guess, what's the process for joining? Um, yeah, so we have a very lax process of joining basically just attending meeting. If you're interested, you can also reach out and follow. At NSB on Instagram or Twitter, we have like, once you attend the meeting, we'll most likely reach out to you. We try to talk to as many members as possible. But yeah, once you go to our Instagram, we have a link tree where you can get at it to the group me as well as find information on any events that are coming up. Perfect. Um, and then you mentioned some events you had coming up, but is there any this week that you want to highlight? Maybe you have coming up that members or people could go to. Yes, sorry, but this week we have a professional development week starting today. We're doing the partnership with Sam as well as ship and where we're just basically going to have a mentor panel talking about mentorship tomorrow. We're doing a technical interview at shop at Bloomberg and then I believe Thursday, we're having another professional event that you can find on our Instagram as well. So, yeah. Okay, awesome. Um, and then to my last question is just, um, can you talk a little bit about maybe your favorite thing or your favorite memory from that's me? Um, yeah, so I remember my very first kind of. We get Michigan, um, let's be hosted a barbecue and I think that was like 1 of the 1st times I got to like see a lot of black people gather together and have like a lot of fun. It was a very good experience for me, especially because I was very new to Michigan and didn't know a lot of people come again because I was. 1 of the only ones from high school who came to Michigan, so it was just nice to like, kind of feel that sense of community from the very beginning and that's kind of what made me get into that's been a lot of great story. Um, it sounds like there's a lot of great opportunities in that's be I know that there's great social professional outreach and technical opportunities. So that was a great overview. I really appreciate it. Thank you for your time and I hope you have a good rest of your day. All right, you as well. Thank you. Bye.