LOGIN
USERNAME:


PASSWORD:
Join Us
SEARCH
Event Ideas
PrintEmail
The following is a list of ideas for Club activities that is intended to be suggestive rather than limiting.  The ideas are lumped into seven groups: Broad categories,  Science and Technology, Business and Entrepreneurship, Career Management, Social, Sports/Recreation  and Volunteering and Philanthropy.  If you would like to organize one of the events on the list or have your own idea, please contact the Volunteer Co-ordinator for more information.    Be creative and help make the Club better by doing your part!

Broad categories:
-- events like those often held in SF, Palo Alto and Berkeley but in other cities and counties anywhere in northern California;
-- social gatherings that are geared to grayer alums as opposed to mixers for recent grads.

Business and Entrepreneurship
-- how to get started with electronic commerce
-- women entrepreneurs meeting
-- tech/business book discussion group
-- international alumni and globalization discussion
-- social enterpreneurship panel
-- MIT Press authors-on-tour events
-- sustainable agriculture panel

Science and Technology
-- Port of Oakland boat tour
-- United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park
-- Mt. Hamilton observatory tour
-- Audio Demo at Dolby Labs
-- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
-- Golden Gate Railroad Museum
-- Bay Model in Sausalito
-- Intel Museum
-- panel about encryption technologies
-- Pixar Studios
-- Industrial Light and Magic
-- dirigibles event at Moffett Field Museum
-- windpower facility at Altamont Pass
-- HP Garage Tour
-- United Airlines Maintenance Center Tour
-- Coast Guard Search-and-Rescue Tour
-- Jeremiah O'Brien and Pompanito event
-- Mining tour of Almaden or Hazel-Atlas
-- Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto
-- Marine Mammal Center in Marin Headlands tour
-- Guide Dogs for the Blind in Marin tour
-- Geologist-guided walk in Montebello or Los Trancos
-- Chevron Richmond refinery
-- TransBay terminal tour
-- College of San Mateo Planetarium visit

Career Management (contact Mike Bowles, mike_bowles AT alum.mit.edu)
-- Negotiating compensation packages
-- GSB/Haas admission tips
-- Industry overviews
-- Transition from engineer to manager
-- How to network
-- How to interview and be interviewed
-- Career mentoring/development (coordinate with MIT)
-- Recent graduate help

Social
-- Niles Canyon Railway event
-- laser tag
-- Lego event
-- Djerassi Resident Artists Program art hike
-- Bowling league
-- symphony or opera outings
-- wine tasting
-- Muir Woods hike
-- Malibu Raceway go-karts
-- Bridge (or other cards) tournament
-- Great America
-- stay-at-home parents group
-- MITCNC children's play groups
-- Chinese New Year or Diwali event
-- Free Shakespeare in the Park
-- MIT knitting or quilting circle
-- Hacks events with MIT Museum staff
-- Potrero Nuevo farm tour

Sports/Recreation
-- Sutter Buttes hike
-- whitewater rafting
-- marksmanship classes
-- rollerblading in Golden Gate park
-- sailing excursion
-- mountain or road biking outings
-- chess tournament
-- electronic games tournament
-- MITCNC golf or minigolf tournament

Volunteering and Philanthropy
-- Volunteers for Outdoor California trailwork day
-- Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition Bicycle Exchange
-- Coastal Cleanup Day