 Okay, we'll go ahead and get started. So my name is Ava. I'm the peer advisor for computer science engineering and today we have Michigan hackers here to talk a little bit about their club. Do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself? Yeah, sure. So my name is Abik. I'm a senior majoring in computer science through the College of Engineering. And yeah, I'm the current president of Michigan hackers. I've been involved with the club ever since my freshman year. And yeah, it's outside of like work and stuff. Awesome. Okay. We'll get started first thing. Can you tell us basically what is Michigan hackers, you know, what type of majors are in there and what type of people and maybe look what the gold organization is. Yeah, sure. So Michigan hackers is basically the largest tech focused organization on campus. And the way a club is structured is that we essentially have over 10 different development sub teams. Each of these teams are basically either working on projects or doing education sessions in a certain domain of tech. So we have like Android, iOS, web, machine learning, embedded systems, security, etc. And yeah, other than that, you know, we're a very big community. So we do a bunch of corporate events with sponsors that we have. So some of the sponsors that we have are like Meta, CrowdStrike, Oracle. And then we also have a bunch of social events. This semester we're going to be going to Houston. We're going to be doing ice skating. And in terms of like the target audience for a club, it's mainly computer science majors. But we also have a lot of data science majors courtesy of like the machine learning team that we have. And given the fact that we also have an embedded systems team. We also have a couple of electrical engineering majors. Yeah, that was perfect. That's awesome. You mentioned that you guys are like the biggest tech club here. How many members would you say roughly? Yes, I mean, every semester, we generally see around 100 to 150 members. And that is excluding our leadership team. Our leadership team itself is around 25 people. And yeah, you know, we have a huge outreach. Like the, we have like weekly emails that we send which go out to around like 4,500 people. We have a Slack work space which has like 2000 people. So yeah, that's awesome. That's really cool. And then you mentioned that you guys do all types of events like social professional outreach. Are they on specific dates or are they all spread out throughout the semester? Yeah, so they're generally pretty well distributed across the semester. Obviously, you know, when it comes to like midterm season or final season, we avoid setting up like, you know, the different professional events that we are, you know, corporate events that we have around that time. I guess like in general, so our club, we have weekly meetings, which we call hack nights. And that's when our different sub teams essentially meet. And those are always on Thursdays at 7pm on our campus. That is a staple that, you know, we've maintained for like quite a few years now. And generally when it comes to like these other initiatives such as corporate events, social events, we generally have them on other days of the week. So we tend to have the corporate events on like, we've done a lot of them on Tuesdays. We have like tech talks with my different each professors, which we do on Tuesdays. And when it comes to social events, we generally we've been trying to run them more on weekends. And yeah, you know, these, other than our hack nights, we generally have like one other event a week. Yeah, it's pretty. Um, and then also I want to ask about time commitment. Is there an expected time commitment for members or how has it been for you as well? You know, being engineering and also being the president and stuff like, what's the time commitment I guess for overall for different goals. Yeah, I mean, you know, the more time you invest into the club the more you'll get out of it. I think that's true for anything. In general, you know, as a regular member of the club, you generally put in around, I'd say, four hours a week for three to five hours a week, I would say. Because so like, as I mentioned, our hat nights are generally around two hours. So there's a commitment of coming to that. And then, you know, if you're attending the other event that we're having, let's say that week, if it's a corporate event, that's going to be like another hour, an hour and a half. And then there's obviously, you know, some time that you're expected to put in this outside of the scope of meetings as well in terms of like, you know, preparing for meetings, reading through materials that your team lead will send and so on. And yeah, like the commitment varies obviously if you're just like a normal member, it's three to five hours, you know, if your team lead, so all of our teams have like leads. And then there's obviously more time when it comes to like prepping prepping for meetings. So that's their commitment. And then, yeah, it's like if you're, you know, one of my real side are put my position as president and I'm part of the executive board team. So that's obviously an even bigger commitment. But yeah, it kind of like, I guess like goes up with like, yeah, that's a really good overview. How is it like managing the classes like being, you know, a big club like this and then also have rigorous like guest. Yeah, you know, it's, it's obviously challenging. Right. So given that each classes are often, I would say they're definitely one of the most demanding classes, you're in this entire university, especially if you're like the last semester I was taking 42, right, which is operating systems class. And that was a huge time commitment. But I think one thing that, you know, members kind of like understand realized is that student orgs like Michigan hackers, essentially offer a lot of stuff that is not available in the scope of a classroom, like sure in a classroom you're working on, you know, you're working on some four projects, I guess you're getting a good theoretical understanding of concepts, but in a club like Michigan hackers, it's more like application based, you're collaborating with a lot of students. And yeah, you, then there's obviously like the opportunities like network with people within the club network with, you know, companies and so on. Yeah, you know, it's, it's obviously, you know, a little difficult to manage it, especially, you know, if you're joining the club initially, but if you, if you attend like a couple meetings you kind of figure out the best way to like balance it out. So, I think it generally works. And management. And then you mentioned that you have different like projects and sub teams. Can you go over and I think you mentioned a little bit some of them, but can you go over work? Yeah, for sure. So first of all, so we have like core teams and we have like non core teams. So our core teams are essentially our teams that meet every Thursday. And, you know, work on their projects or do education sessions, and then non core teams are those that do not meet on Thursday. So members can be part of, you know, one core team and like one non core team. And you can basically join any core team you want, but non core teams are a little more like selective. Yeah, so like, for example, when it comes to our core teams, we have Android, right? So they're essentially building an Android app and this semester or this year essentially they've been working on kind of like building a fitness tracking app. So you can count like the number of steps that you've walked throughout, let's say a day, you can like invite your friends to compete with you and so on. And then we have an iOS team, which has been building iOS apps. You know, the last semester they were building like their own version of hurdle. And I think this semester we're working on like a study buddies app like where you can find a study buddies for your specific classes on campus. And then like we have an embedded systems team, and they've been working on building a drone. And then like our machine learning team they've so machine learning is put into like the education session section and like some project teams as well. So for the project teams, like I think one team's been working on building like a handwriting recognition neural network. So yeah, those are like the core teams we have 10 core teams in total. And on the side we also have like three non core teams. These are those three teams are like, one of them is essentially our website team where he's essentially since last semester. We've been working on a on the project of completely overhauling and you acting up website. So people have been working on that. There is an internal tooling team that we actually introduced recently. And that teams and it's responsible for building a software that automates a lot of the processes that go like in the background of the club. So yeah, I think that's kind of like a novel that's a lot of really great opportunities and projects. That's awesome. And you also mentioned that professional opportunities. How many times with these companies come in what exactly do they teach or attend these events. Yeah, so you know, we saw last semester for example we had five corporate events. This semester we've already had to one more. And yeah, you know, the what happens in these corporate events kind of varies from event to event. So for example, we did a, we did an event with Metta. We're essentially the engineers coming in. They talked about their experience of like working at a company on such a large scale. And then there's like an open Q&A session. Then we had an event with SIG. And they essentially not like hosted a coding challenge with us, which is really cool. And then this semester we had Grainger come in and they conducted kind of like a technical imaging workshop. So yeah, you know, the, the, I guess like the scope of the event kind of varies from event to event. And yeah, it's nice in the sense that you kind of like get a diverse array of like events. So, you know, it's, if it's the same thing again then you know it gets kind of boring. So we try to like provide as many different kinds of opportunities with these. Those are great opportunities. And then I also said there's different, there's like executive board and there's like leads for leadership opportunities. Can you talk about kind of like what I guess general leadership opportunities. Yeah, for sure. So I guess like, first of all, there's like being a general member right. So our club is open membership if you show up your member. But then we also have something called being a core member where in order to become a core member you need to show commitment in terms of showing up to meetings contributing to our community. So basically this semester, if you want to become a core member, you need seven attendance points. And if you want to retain your core membership for next semester, you need five attendance points. And then once you're a core member, you're eligible for being a team, a core team lead, and our core team leads are essentially responsible for like managing our core teams. So like, as I mentioned, we have Android iOS, and each team generally has around two leads. And the commitment of being a lead is generally, you know, it's at least a semester and then you can stretch it essentially to a year as long as you want. And yeah, you know, generally we have, we have leads graduating every semester. And, you know, our leads were like stepping down to go into more advise advisory role every semester. So there's the so essentially if you actively participated in a certain team, then there's like an application process that the current teams lead will set up and, you know, you can fill out that application. Basically interview with that team's lead. And if they think that you're a good fit for the team, you know, you can, you'll have the opportunity to lead it. And yeah, the responsibilities of a team lead are in general just like leading that specific team, you know, defining like a semester long or like a year long plan, you know, overseeing members, making sure that everyone's on the same page. And just like representing the club in general. And yeah, after, I guess, being a lead, we have executive board. So currently our executive board is three people, whereas our core leads are like 20 people right now. And yeah, the exact boards responsibility is to basically manage some wide activities. So, you know, overseeing our different team leads, setting up corporate events, setting up social lens, defining club strategy, you know, handling member relations, all that kind of stuff. And that is essentially a yearly commitment. So the 10 year generally starts from fall and goes up to winter. And yeah, we actually, if anyone for missing a hacker to see this. We, we actually have our exact board applications open to do on Friday. So if you're interested, fill it out. But yeah, I mean, at least then we also have senior advisors who are like, we're former leads or exact numbers and just want to like advise the club, not be as actively involved as they were. So in terms of like my personal experience, I, I've been part of happier since I've restaurant here. I was leading one team that we have called the interview team where help members for prepping for technical interviews. Very, very nice experience for me got to talk to a lot of members improve my, you know, technical and communications big time. And yeah, now as president. I've, yeah, I just, it's been a phenomenal opportunity to like lead a club that operates at such a large scale and just interacting with someone. That was a really awesome answer. So give a great overview of all the opportunities. You mentioned to that. Yeah, if you just if you're considered a member. Is there any you have to fill any application or is just just to clarify you just attend a meeting and you're considered a member and then you can work your way up. Yeah, basically, as I mentioned, we're open membership models. So if you attend, you remember, as long as you're part of a slack and you get our emails, you're basically a member. But then yet to become a core member, there's the attendance requirement. And then I think I forgot to mention there's also like a group celled coffee chat that you do with someone from execs. Yeah, and it's the coffee chat is like very chill. It's just to, you know, just to see what members are thinking about the club, you know, how, how their experience has been and basically just a casual conversation. Our goal is to, you know, basically sustain a community of passionate technologists, and we also believe that we want to provide resources to everyone interested in tech, which is why we're not exclusive. Um, and then my last question just to wrap it up is, can you talk a little bit about your favorite thing or maybe your favorite memory from the shakers. Oh, yeah, I've, I'd say quite a few, but I think the one that stands out is last year, we organized a social event at pinball Pete's. So yeah, that was just two hours of going to our kids. Yeah, that was really fun. But hopefully this semester it's. Yeah, that's awesome. Okay, well, thank you so much for joining me, actors. That was really awesome overview of everything that you guys have. Yes, a lot of great opportunities. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye. Yeah, thank you.