Tonight's alumni meeting is at the studio at 7pm. Attached please find the agenda, and below the web/phone conference info: 1. Please join my meeting. https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/339676785 2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone. Dial 630-869-1011 Access Code: 339-676-785 Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting Meeting ID: 339-676-785 GoToMeeting® Online Meetings Made Easy™

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Hi All, Don Donzal is willing to give free $100 Conference Tickets to i.c.stars students and alumni for the activities taking place on Fri Oct 31 and Sat Nov 1. Details can be found here: http://www.chicagocon.com/content/view/103/51/ Please forward me your names, email addresses and any other pertinent info, if you're interested in attending. This info is needed so they can have a proper head count for food and enough info for their badges. Don is the founder and organizer of Chicagocon, Editor-In-Chief for The Ethical Hacker and works for The Digital Construction Company Please get back to me no later than Tuesday, Oct. 27. Thanks, TR

Don Donzal, the founder of ChicagoCon, has extended an invite to the i.c.stars community. Here is the basic body of his email: Due to low enrollment (I can only guess economic woes), CEH and many other courses have been cancelled. Oh well. We take risks, right? The Ethical Hacking Conference is still a go on the weekend. Here’s what I can do. If anyone you know, with i. c. stars or not, truly can’t afford the $100 ticket, let me know. We’ll get them in. I just need a list with names, email address and organizations. So if anyone is interested in attending this extremely information conference, email me at rjames@icstars.org and I will forward your information to Don. Next weekend is fast approaching, however, and time is short. Here is the link for ChicagoCon: http://www.chicagocon.com/

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Due to this Saturday Oct, 18 2008, i.c.stars has decided to stop hosting such events such as Game Night, Movie Night, and other events of this nature. Now you ask why? Well there was inappropriate usage of alcoholic beverages this past weekend, and as Alumn we should of known better. We all love i.c.stars, and we also love to come back to this place, just hang out, catch up with other Alumn, help the current cycle and to Dare to Dream. We can still come back and do that but not in a party environment, the studio has been and will always continue to be our home, but lets try to remember that we also have to respect it. Friends and Family, Mother's Day Lunchon, and those type of events will continue to happen.

To be completely honest I feel truly sad about this outcome and I would like to apologize for the results of this unfortunate event

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Alumni,

One of the major issues we've been facing as an organization is an overall lack of post-commencement participation. The Alumni Association has been evolving over the past year (don't take my word for it...come see for yourself!) and we've come up with some new ideas to ensure that the future alum have a smooth transition from commencement to the Alumni community.

An idea we've discussed over the last few meetings is an Alumni/Intern mentoring program. Basically, we'd like to offer the current interns an alumni mentor to help share their experiences and offer support and guidance throughout the process. This program can potentially bridge that gap between interns and alum and allow us to welcome them to our community, as well as encouraging post-commencement participation.

The first step in this process is to create alumni bio's. These bio's will then be distributed to the interns so that they can choose the alumni they'd most like to mentor them.

Please provide a short bio (1-2 paragraphs) explaining your studio role, cycle project roles and current work experiences. If you have any community involvement or passions, please include that as well.

Sherita Whitaker from Cycle 16 has volunteered to be the main point of contact for submission/distribution of these bio's, so please send to swhitaker@icstars.org

Please keep in mind that cycle 17 is already halfway into project 2, so these should be submitted as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance.

-Seth