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Students who contribute to TechNews regularly are also eligible to be paid for their work. A strong campus newspaper is part of a strong campus community, and we’d love to have the opportunity to share your work and passions with others at UT. To learn more about TechNews, please drop by a weekly Writer‘s Meeting, held every Sunday afternoon at 4 pm. in our office, located in MTCC room 221. TechNews will not be publishing next week due to Labor Day, so our next meeting will take place on Sunday, September 13. If you’d like to submit any content for the paper or ask any questions, feel free to send me an email at editor@technewsiit. com. Sincerely, Kori Bowns Editor—in-Chief, TechNews iitAIAS offers opportunities for architecture students Jennifer Nakano TECHNEWS WRITER iitAIAS is the IIT chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS), a national organization. It is an independent, nonprofit, student-run organization dedicated to providing programs, information, and resources on issues critical to an architectural education. The organization works in tandem with the College of Architecture (CoA) faculty and staff to foster communication, skill-building, networking, studio culture, and an overall better, more enriched experience for students, which can carry them from their academic life to their professional career. Besides traveling state—to- state for our legendary FORUM and Midwest Quad conferences, iitAIAS hosts lectures by CoA faculty and practicing architects, firm crawls with local and internationally renowned Chicago architects, workshops, and so much more. One of the first events of the academic year is the organization’s general body meeting, where students can get to know the executive board, upcoming events, and the overall benefits of joining AIAS. The organization even has a free raffle for students enrolled in AIAS. On top of that, they hosted a lot of events during Welcome Week, including a welcome BBQ, tours of downtown Chicago, a firm crawl, and a design charrette. Later in the year, amidst the organization’s lectures, workshops, and socials, comes along the annual FORUM conference. Every year in a different city, spanning the last few days of December through the first of January, iitAIAS meets other architecture students in the US from other colleges and universities; last year students traveled to Nashville, Tennessee and watched Lady Antebellum perform for free just before the New Year’s ball dropped. The year before that, iitAIAS hosted FORUM here in Chicago. Besides the festivities, iitAIAS also takes part in lectures, workshops, and socials—but with other schools, and on nationwide scale. Here students develop relationships and networks that otherwise wouldn’t be possible without first meeting and spending time with other chapters. Keynote speeches given by architects, workshops with other students, and the famed Beaux Arts Ball are just a few of the great events at FORUM. This year, members of iitAIAS look forward to seeing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco at FORUM 2015. As the spring semester rolls around, students have another conference to look forward to: the Midwest Spring Quad Conference, which, like FORUM, takes place in Ark/arise in a different city every year. But this conference is unique to just AIAS chapters in the Midwest, so students can get to know their neighbors and understand what other architecture students experience in their own programs, including their craft, skills, and a great Beaux Arts Ball of their own. In previous years, iitAIAS has been to Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Lexington. The next Spring Quad Conference will be held in Detroit, Michigan. Among and in-between these huge events are local events hosted by iitAIAS, unique to the College of Architecture. Last year, iitAIAS began a lecture series featuring architecture professors and practicing architects including Andrew Tinucci, Donna Robertson, and Peter Exley. iitAIAS also hosted various workshops, led by studio professors as well as digital design professors. One of the most exciting discussions included student and faculty roundtables, including a revision of studio culture, and portfolio revisions with alumni and professors, all of which foster improved experiences as well as communication within the CoA. If you’re still unconvinced, or have any questions for iitAIAS, feel free to email the organization at alas@iit.edu. COHTOLCT bUSIflQSS@TZCV\II@WSIIT.COII/I mscounfed ad contracts- now available for Full 206