#!SUITSSydney University IT Society

O-Week is 2011 is about to make port and for all new students, from all of us at SUITS (The Sydney University IT Society), Welcome Aboard!

To all new students who may not be familiar with what we do, we are a student organisation, based in the School of IT (SIT), who basically run all sorts of awesome events throughout the year. Just to give you a little taste of all we have going, we run:

• The only weekly BBQ on campus, with gourmet sausages, tomatoes and vegetarian selections.
• Video Games Nights, with a wide selection of console games
• Board Games Nights
• Hack Sessions – Presentations by students and various people around SIT about any IT topic they are passionate about
• Company Site Tours – Give you an idea of what is on the other side of uni

In addition, we will be at some point giving tours around the School of IT, so if you are planning to do any IT units, come give down and take a look.

We will have stands set up in the main O-Week area, and down on the Engineering Lawns for Engineering Day. If you have any questions about who we are, what we do, or any IT related questions, we are here to help.

So, if you are at O-Week look us up. Membership to SUITS is ABSOLUTELY FREE! You can join by clicking the “Join #!SUITS” link on the right of this page. However, just a quick reminder that to access many of the benefits that SUITS offers, such as cheaper BBQ prices, free food at console and games nights etc. you MUST be an access card holder.

To all our existing members, Welcome Back! We hope you had a good holiday, and you are rested and ready for what is set to be an awesome year! A quick reminder that membership lists are refreshed each year, so if you want to continue to be involved, you have to re-register for the new year.

If you want any more information about us, don’t hesitate to email us at suits AT it.usyd.edu.au. There is always someone on the other end happy to help!

Have a Great Year,
SUITS Exec

Welcome back to Uni this week. Hope everyone had a restful vacation. Moving straight back into things, its a packed week for SUITS with out weekly BBQ, Atlassian Site Visits, and another Hack Session.

With the new exec coming in, we would love to hear from you on what we can do for the new year. If you have any suggestions, email us at: suits@it.usyd.edu.au

For this weeks Hack Session: Professor Judy Kay presents some of the leading research being conducted at USYD in the fields of surface computing and a demo of the much talked about Tabletop being developed in SIT.

When: Tuesday 1-2PM
Where: SIT Lab 117

Have a great week,

SUITS Exec

When: Tue 28th Sept
Where: Sydney City Area

SUITS Site Tours are on again this year during the mid-semester break next week! We will be visiting Commonwealth Bank and Optiver! (Atlassian Site tour will be delayed until later in the semester)

Discover your future in I.T.! Meet our sponsor companies and find out what they do, who they look for and what its like to work in that company.

If your looking for an internship or a possible graduate position or just want to see what its like to work in a premier company in the real-world then come along and gain some real inside knowledge.

Register your place here: suitsvisits.eventbrite.com

Sydney NYE 2010

Happy New Year SUITS people! Start of a new decade and start of a new chapter of SUITS (as corny as it may sound).

2010 has a whole feast of offerings for our SUITS members with many things in the works. First off the we have O-Week 2010 to look forward too! O-Week at Sydney Uni attracts 15 000 students and is the largest event of its type in the Southern Hemisphere. SUITS will be there in full force for all three days!

Side Note: We are looking for volunteers for our O week Stall so if your interested in coming aboard please do email us at suits (at) it.usyd.edu.au

Stuff to look forward too:

• SUITS O-Week Guitar Hero Competition! 24th of Feb
• SUITS O-Week Stall 24th-26th (did someone say free-stuff?)
• Trivia returns again for 2010
• Bi-Monthly Consol Gaming Nights
• NEW Lunchtime ‘Hack’ Sessions - Casual hour(y) presentations from SUITS and friends on anything. Code, hacks, Games, Mods, Hardware…
• NEW Spotlight Lecture Series - Keynote lecture series that will (hopefully) showcase the amazing research and partners of SUITS. Definitely something to look forward too.

Stay tuned for more O week info coming in the following days.

We’d like to thank everyone who came along to our Trivia Night on Wednesday Night.  Congratulations to Team When Doves Cry, who all won double-passes to the movies, SUITS Shirts, free barbeque and a whole lot chocolate.  It was a fantastic night, with categories ranging from geography to internet culture to an audio-visual round.  There was also more chocolate than you could ever consume as well as dinner and drinks, and it was all free!  If you missed out this time, don’t despair; we’re sure to have another Trivia Night next semester!