Week 2 Spring 2015 (Week of 2nd February 2015)

RCOS meeting Friday 6th Feb 2015

Above is a photo taken on 2/6/2015 (Friday). We have around 158 students - The big problem of collecting all the URP forms and the project proposals was ably managed by David Goldschmidt. The mentors are chosen.

Mentors for Spring 2015

On Tuesday (2/3/2015) we had a few remaining project pitch presentations. David G gave a tutorial on how to fill the various forms and how to submit them. Then instructions were given how to get into slack (our chat forum - http://rcos.slack.com ), Observatory (http://rcos.rpi.edu ) , google groups  (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rcos-at-rensselaer ) and git set up. The paper work at RPI is sapping my energy!

On Friday (2/6/2015), we had one more project pitch presentation  (hopefully name of that project will change - D'oh - didn't know that meaning - till Rob told me the meaning - shame on me being a pseudo cruciverbalist :( ) . Theo and Josh gave a brief talk on Git and showed its power. They posted their slides to the group. Here is it Sevi and his partner gave a talk on socket.io (javascript socket - with node.js) and showed off their network game. RCOS students participated with gusto.

The mentors/projects list may be found here 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1myM_ju6PCRiy9pJZQosFju6cktbmjlH-jYNw7mirUpE/edit?usp=sharing

I am looking forward to the spring semester - with some trepidation.