Our project is a promotion and support of the City Tech computer club. The focus is spreading knowledge of the computer club and increasing technology focused student interest in the club itself. Essentially we are trying to educate the technology focused students on what the computer club is and what it can offer them.
As a group, we feel very enthusiastic about the idea of helping our fellow students. It is important because the only computer club within a computer centric school doesn’t seem to be as well-known as it should be. It is relevant to this course because it will take a very precise tone and word base to communicate with various groups and individuals so as to persuade them to take interest in our cause and in the computer club itself.
The stakeholders are the entire city tech student body. All of our accomplishments in this project will benefit the students. It will give them greater access to the things that they are entitled to being in a school focused on technology. The audience will essentially include the entire student body but it will also include higher ups within the school (faculty, workers, etc…). Our project’s focus is to bring the computer club to a point where it is essentially interwoven into the fabric of the students at city tech. Our goal is to assist the club in becoming what it should be.
As a group, we have a variety of project deliverables. We will create surveys and distribute them to the student body. Along with the surveys, however, will be an attached informative/persuasive memo. The memo will include key information about the computer club and the wording will be biased toward our cause of recruiting new members to the computer club. We will also be working on a club improvement showcase showing how the computer club can better improve its image. The showcase will based off the results of the surveys and our own personal research. The showcase will also point out key limitations of the computer club. We will also be showing our Gantt chart, which will show what, when, and how certain portions of this project are to be finished.
Our work plan shall be divvied up based on strengths and availability. Derrick is focusing on the coordination of the group. Lian will be handling the contact and communication of the key individuals of the computer club through email. Chris will be focusing on providing information and key topics for our meetings and also the recording of major data and points made. Deniel will be focusing on the consolidation and the uploading of our work to pre-identified avenues (Openlab, Dropbox, class, etc…). In addition to the main jobs that we are assigned, we also have group assignments after every meeting.
Now onto the deliverables due. The survey ideas and actual format will discussed upon in our next meeting this Friday. However, we will have the surveys and memo first draft completed by next week. All major job functions in this work plan are subject for change and flexibility. We also won’t hesitate to notify and lean on each other for help or assistance.
We plan to complete this project by collaborating closely and effectively with each other. We will also be collaborating closely with the computer club, students and faculty alike. Our group already have established times that are comfortable for us to meet up and discuss this project. Fridays in the afternoon are this groups “in person” meeting time. We also have a Google group forum to communicate with each other at any time. We’ve also exchanged phone numbers and Skype addresses so that all avenues of communication are covered. We have designated weekend afternoon’s for Skype meetings.
We will learn how to improve an already established system through this project. We will learn how to accomplish that through to collaboration and planning power of a group effort. By utilizing ideas from every person in our group, as well as using our research and hard efforts to supplement that, we will pave the way for our success in this project. Although it will not be an easy task, we will strive to make it a reality
