Tech Club News

August 7,2007 - FIRST TECH MEETING OF THE YEAR! The first meeting of the year has been scheduled for Wednesday August 29th, time and date to be announced later. new officers for the year will be elected and plans continue for the tech club events scheduled for this year. many things are rolling along including the annual Fall LAN party, the potato guns, and the Campus Radio. All in all it should be a fun and full year.

May 23, 2007 - Site Under Construction! For the next month or two our website and the server are going to be undergoing major renovations. Pages are getting re-vamped, moved and just plain changed and the whole site is moving to a new server.

May 2, 2007 - MAJOR NEWS!!! Tech Club now has a Team Speak server set up and ready to use! This handy little program is a great conference call type program that you can use to hook up with friends to better run team play in games or have online study sessions without all the jumping back and forth in messenger services. All you need is to load the client, connect with the server and have a good mic and speakers.
To get hooked up, first download the client at www.teamspeak.org . Once the client is loaded click on Connect at the top of the window, and right-click Servers. Enter in the name Tech Club TS or any other name that you can easily recognize. Hit Enter and a dialog box appears on the right. Under the server IP enter 206.176.95.37 . Then click Anonymous and enter in a nickname you want to use. This name can be changed at any time whenever you log into the server. There is no server password. Check the Auto-reconnect box and then click Connect at the bottom of the screen.
Now you should be logged into the server under the "Main Lobby" and you're ready to talk! There are a few mic and speaker settings that you may have to adjust under the Settings tab at the top of the window as far as if you want voice activated mic or key activated. In order to move to any of the other 'rooms' you will have to be a registered member of the server. If you would like to register on the MTI Tech Club TS server just give one of the SA's or CA's a yell.
There are already rooms set up for Guild Wars, Counterstrike, C&C, AA and WoW and soon there will be more specifically for study groups or private chat sessions. Come on in and join the fun in the ultimate chat room!

April 25, 2007 - Date set for Annual Fall LAN Event! At the last meeting of the year it was decided to schedule the annual fall LAN Event for the Weekend of September 29th. Details are still needing to be ironed out but the HUNT FOR SPONSORS, and simple details are being worked on over the summer.

April 3, 2007 - Revamp time! Now that Play Ground Spring 2007 is over it's time for some spring cleaning! Over the next few weeks you may notice a few major changes to the site, including some new pages and pictures from the last parties in The Vault! Oh, and thanks to everyone that made the LAN Party such a riot!

March 19, 2007 - Play Ground, Spring 2007 Join us on the 31st of March out at the Tech Center (see Play Ground page for directions) starting at 3pm for a night of tournaments and gaming! Door prizes will be given away all night and awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the tournaments.

February 7, 2007 - Food Drives, LAN Parties and potato guns. Oh my! Lots of things are happening lately. First of all the club has decided to band together on the Heart of Gold food drive SKILLS USA is setting up. Club members are collecting items from the below list and we'll see how much we can get by Feb 28.

NON-Food                                            Food
Diapers, size 3 and up                           Crackers
Shampoo                                              Cereal
Conditioner                                            Tuna
Hairbrushes                                           Mac & Cheese
Combs                                                  1 lb box of macaroni
Toothbrushes                                         Cream Soups
Toothpaste                                            Juice
Toilet Paper                                           Canned Tomatoes
Laundry Detergent                                  Spaghetti Sauce
Dish Soap                                             1 lb box spaghetti noodles
                                                            Noodle/rice side dish in a box
                                                            Hamburger Helper

 

Also, it was decided to donate $50.00 to the local United Way to finish out our Christmas raffle.
Next, LAN Party. We have a small one planned that is open to club members, their friends and MTI students/faculty on February 16. It is to be held in the commons area at the tech center. We're starting at 4pm but show up when you're able. BYOC as always!
Main Play Ground is planned for March 31. Tournament play and prizes to be offered. More information to come.
AND finally, Potato Gun! We have finally settled on a larger project. Next Wednesday watch out! The guns aren't going to be so virtual anymore.  J

January 1, 2007 - Happy New Year!! Here's wishing everyone a great year.

December 20, 2006 - We have a winner! Congratulations to Jill Reinesch on winning the Tech Club raffle.

December 11, 2006 - Pictures are up! Pictures from the LAN Party are up on the website now. Check it out! We had a great time and can't wait for the next party (to be announced)

November 15, 2006 - Raffle time! We're raffling off a DVD RECORDER just in time for Christmas! And yes, it IS a DVD burner. :)  Tickets will be $5 a ticket or 3 tickets for $10. Contact any tech club member to purchase them. Tickets will be sold now through Dec. 15 with the drawing on the 20th. Just in time for that last-minute Christmas present to yourself! Proceeds from this will be split, with 25% or $50, whichever is higher, being given to a charity TBA.

November 8, 2006 - Final plans for first annual LAN Party are nearly complete. Method of play will be decided the day of, being either tournament or free play. 1:00 setup, 3:00 start time, free play til 4:00. Will decide play by vote. Plans to build a Rube Goldberg machine are beginning to form. Club divided into 3 teams to start ideas. (see http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/honda.php for a great example. And yes it's all real!) Club servers are nearly ready for play! Have hardware and new drivers installed. Just need a little minor debugging and they'll be ready to roll for the 18th. Next meeting is November 15

November 1, 2006 - NEW EL PRESIDENTA! Tim Miller (a.k.a: Timmay) is elected the new club president.

October 26, 2006 - All new Tech site is open for business! Now under the new address of http://www.mitchelltechclub.org

March 18, 2005 - Received Mid-continent Communications Foundation Grant
    The Technology Club has been awarded a grant from Mid-continent Communications.  The Club submitted an application for the grant in hopes of purchasing servers for various projects and events the club plans to hold.  We would like to thank Mid-continent Communications for their support of our new club.