OUTSTANDING CHAPTER AWARD NOMINATION
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY STUDENT CHAPTER UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS REGION 8 GREECE SECTION Website: www.computer.ieee-upatras.gr || www.ieee-upatras.gr
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CONTENTS
1.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Introduction 1.1 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Newsletters 1.2 …………………………………………………………………..…………………..Enlistment of Past and New CS Members 2. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Student Branch Chapter Activities 2.1 …………………………………………………………………………………Website Development with Joomla Workshop 2.2 ………………………………………………………Human Computer Interaction & Artificial Intelligence Seminar 2.3 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Games Expo 2012 2.4…………………………………………………………………………………………………. Connection with Industry-Internships 2.5 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………UBI-PATRAS 2012 3. …………………………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………Volunteer Activity 3.1…………………………………………………..………………………………..……… Field Trip to Gaming Forum 2012 by AIT 4. ………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………Contests 4.1 ………………………………………………………………………………Website Development Contest using Joomla CMS 5. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Fund
Raising
6. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Social Events 7. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Photos/Press
1.Introduction
The needs of IEEE Student Branch of University of Patras’ members and expressions of interest from IEEE members about scientific and Computer Science interests led to the establishment of an IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter. The IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras was found on November 5th, 2011 and approved by the IEEE on January 5th , 2012 with code SBC50001.It is the 1st and the only Computer Society Student Chapter to have been found in Greece. Since we were found, members were eager to organize and participate in Scientific Events about the field of Computer Science, as well as undertake scientific projects to develop applications. Our community grew numerically amazingly during the first months of our activity.Right now we are counting 49 Active Members and this number is growing rapidly day by day. Our had and and
outstanding effort and the organization of several interesting events during 2011-2012 as a result the creation of a huge network including researchers, students, professors industry, while also the Greek and IEEE Press published several articles in newsletters newspapers about our activity.
Therefore, we submit this petition in order to nominate our IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras, Greece for the Outstanding Chapter Award of IEEE Computer Society. 1.1 Newsletters
Student Branch Chapter Newsletters
Since January 6th 2012 we have published 2 NewsLetters(Greek Language) for 2 seasons(Winter & Spring).These Newsletters included information and summaries of past events as well as a section of “coming soon” events.
http://issuu.com/MariosBikos/docs/csupatras1stnewsletter/1 http://issuu.com/MariosBikos/docs/2nd_newsletter/1 1.2 Enlistment of Past and New CS Members
MEMBERS= 49 active Member Number 41461334 41531217 80151098 80367436 80428767 80727246 90237456 90298757 90364293 90457774 90551560 90617883 90677790
Full Name Andreas Papalambrou Nikolaos Kefalas Giorgos Gioulis Manolis Viennas Andreas G Kotsopoulos Spyros Theodoritsis George Apostolopoulos Michael G Epitropakis Apostolos P. Fournaris Christos A. Koulamas EPAMEINONDAS RONTOGIANNIS Marios Kendea Erikos Alkalai
IEEE Membership Status Description Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active
90789593 90866305 90872590 91161210 91167134 91211019 91213448 91226131 91253271 92029882 92043208 92102992 92104674 92104960 92113838 92122963 92141381 92142588 92142619 92147034 92147425 92151293 92151331 92160066 92160566 92160569 92161509 92184834 92264631 92267481 92270823 92288475 92311930 92313010 92416476 92416772
Charalampos Tsimpouris ATHANASIOS POLYZOS Theodoros Chatzigiannakis Filippos Vasilakis Thanasis Paraskevas George Lydakis Marios Fotios Bikos Thrasyvoulos Karidis Anestis Bechtsoudis Konstantinos Goutsos Maria Rossi Vasileios Keramidas Maria Karpathiotaki Eftychios Theodorakis Nicholas Kostas Zaglis Ioannis Prevezanos PANAGIOTIS TSINGANOS DIMITRIOS SKREPETOS ANDREAS BABOURIS George Konstantinos Bikos Filippos Dimosthenis Soulakis GEORGE KOULIKAS Spiros Kafkias Markos Petros Mertzemekianos Albano Seitaj Prokopis Antoniadis Isi Matalon Nikos Nikoloutsakos EFTYCHIA PANAGIOTOPOULOU Adamantios Ntanis Panagiota Revithi Paris Stefanou Anastasia Grigoropoulou Theodore Tsamis Achilleas John Yfantis Ioanna Tzanetou
Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active
21/09/2011-06/01/2012 Members=16 Member Number 91226131 92102992 92104674 92104960 92113838 92122963 92141381 92142588 92142619 92147034 92147425 92151293 92151331 92160566 92160569
Full Name Thrasyvoulos Karidis Vasileios Keramidas Maria Karpathiotaki Eftychios Theodorakis Nicholas Kostas Zaglis Ioannis Prevezanos PANAGIOTIS TSINGANOS DIMITRIOS SKREPETOS ANDREAS BABOURIS George Konstantinos Bikos Filippos Soulakis GEORGE KOULIKAS Spiros Kafkias Albano Seitaj Prokopis Antoniadis
IEEE Membership Status Description Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active
92161509
Isi Matalon
Active
06/01/2012-Present New Members Member Number 92160066 92184834 92264631 92267481 92270823 92288475 92311930 92313010 92416476 92416772
Full Name Markos Petros Mertzemekianos Nikos Nikoloutsakos EFTYCHIA PANAGIOTOPOULOU Adamantios Ntanis Panagiota Revithi Paris Stefanou Anastasia Grigoropoulou Theodore Tsamis Achilleas John Yfantis Ioanna Tzanetou
IEEE Membership Status Description Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active Active
2. Student Branch Chapter Activities 2.1 Website Development with Joomla-Workshop
Attendance: 250 people Building a website from scratch may sound like a complicated topic but on December 20th 2011, students of the University of Patras had the opportunity to build their own website using Joomla in a workshop organized by the IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras. Joomla is a content management system (CMS) which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility have made Joomla one of the most popular Web site software available. The workshop was delivered by Mr. Evangelou, Managing Director at Nuevo Webmare Ltd/ CTO at JoomlaWorks Ltd and creator of the most popular sports portal (gazzetta.gr) in Greece. The workshop included a presentation on how to launch a website as well as administrate its content. The participants were excited and really enjoyed the workshop.
2.2 Human-Computer Interaction & Artificial Intelligence Event
Attendance: 120 people On Thursday, February 16th, 2012 IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras organized a seminar entitled: "Human-Computer Interaction & Artificial Intelligence" The purpose of this event was to present to the public the sectors and research applications that have been developed by the laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction and Wire Communications, which also include the area of Artificial Intelligence and is part of
the Telecommunications and Information Technology Division that belongs to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) of the University of Patras. The attendees had the opportunity to become familiar with new technologies and learn more about them such as eye tracking and user monitor equipment , portable devices development and testing methods and tools as well as multimedia and software development tools. But, the most important part of the event was that the attendeesstudents were given the chance to participate in these projects and assist professors with their research.The presentations were given by N.Fakotakis, Director of the Laboratory of Wire Communications (EBC), and head of the Artificial Intelligence Group, N.Avouris, Head of Group HCI, Professor of Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction and K.Sgarbas, Assistant Professor on "Symbolic Artificial Intelligence with emphasis on Interactive Systems", Faculty Advisor of the IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter. Students were amazed by the perspective of these new technologies and were motivated to participate in the labs and research activities.
2.3 Games Expo 2012
Attendance: 1018 people IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter & IEEE Student Branch of University of Patras organized the first Greek Games Expo in the city of Patras. A series of successful events at the University of Patras, and the expertise combined with the appetite of the members of the Organizing Committee led to our decision to organize an event on a field that we all know from when we were young but we want to know more about, the one of ...Video Games! Video games have become an entertainment for all ages and genders, with huge appeal to both young people and adults. They are available in every format from digital consoles to mobile phones. Gradually changing the way we communicate, we interact, we learn, we work. It's an industry with great history, but with an even greater future. We Deserve to know gaming better and what better way than to present this field to new students with interest and hunger for learning! This event was addressed to the public generally, but particularly young people and students interested in the field of Gaming in Greece. Our goal was to bring together in this event a series of speeches by researchers and Greek companies operating in the area of Gaming in Greece as well as informing the public about how they started, what is happening currently in the field of Gaming in Greece, what do they think about the future of video games in Greece, business solutions through this area, information on the stages and processes of a project and finally a video game demo or Demo Videos from video games that have been developed by them. Partial, our goal was to strengthen the presence of Greece in the developing field of videogames. Main concern of the event was to bring young people into more direct contact with the area of Game Development in Greece and to highlight the interconnection between academics-researchers and production & development of videogames. Personal contact and dialogue between companies, researchers and young people emerged interesting proposals and prospects for participants from both sides .To achieve these objectives, each participating company was presented to the public through a speech, while it could have its own space in the event. Thus, a friendly atmosphere enabled all attendees to learn about the activities of companies, recruiting chances, Gaming Projects dealt with. It also enabled the public to play video games on consoles which had been placed to live closely the thrill of Gaming. The event was held on Friday, March 16th at the Conference and Cultural Centre of the University of Patras. 1018 attendees really enjoyed
the presentations and the parallel events and everyone is looking forward for the next Games Expo which is going to be Games & Mobile Expo 2013.
2.4 Connection with Industry through our activity During Games Expo 2012 personal contact and dialogue between companies, researchers and young people emerged 2 interesting proposals for participants.Specifically, 2 Gaming Companies from Greece, Saicon Games (http://www.saicongames.com/) and Eyelead (http://eyelead.com) offered internships for students of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department during the students’ diploma thesis in the field of Game Development.
2.5 UBI-PATRAS 2012 Attendance: 110 people On Friday, May 25th, 2012, the workshop on Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing was organized by the Research Group on Internet Technologies Computer Engineering and Informatics, Univ. Patras, in collaboration with the student associations StudentGuru Patras, IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of University of Patras and i-Bite team. The workshop’s goal was to inform students about the activities of the University and the ITYE in this research area and demonstrate the possibility of doing project work in undergraduate and postgraduate level. For those already active members of the University the conference provided an opportunity to meet, and stimulate fruitful discussion for better cooperation with a view to participation in national and international projects. The workshop included lectures on the background of the field of Mobile Computing and scattered by the University faculty members and a large student competition in which the students participated and won fantastic prizes! The event was considered successful and everyone left the event having been motivated to participate in national and international projects.
3. Volunteer Activity 3.1 Field Trip-Gaming Forum 2012 by Athens Information Technology Center The 1st Gaming Forum 2012 was held in collaboration with the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, Athens Plaython and IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of the University of Patras. The 1st Gaming Forum 2012 was envisaged to become an annual networking and information sharing event aimed at discussing trends in game design and its applications in entertainment, education and marketing; analyzing the business of gaming and creating a game development community The 1st Gaming Forum was a two-day event, on April 27th-28th 2012, comprised of two parts,the Gaming Convention: a networking and information sharing event which aimed to
bring together the academia and industry to discuss various topics related to the concepts of gaming and gamification and the Gaming Contest which aimed at bringing together game enthusiasts and game developers, in order to facilitate the creation of highly innovative game ideas and working game prototypes. IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter of University of Patras arranged a field trip to the Event for the support through the Volunteering Students and the organization of the event. During this event we managed to set up several mini-contests like Typing Contest, XBOX 360 contests etc using our experience from Games Expo 2012.
4. Contests 4.1 WebSite Creation Contest-Joomla CMS IEEE Computer Chapter organized a contest for it's website computer.ieee-upatras.gr. Students were invited to submit their site for IEEE Computer Chapter using ONLY Joomla CMS. We wanted them to create their website as they would have imagined it should be, using their imagination and creativity, and of course JOOMLA CMS 1.6-1.7.They had to create the site locally to their computer(localhost) and then send us their files via email. This Contest began on Wednesday December 21st, 2011 and ended on Tuesday February 14th, 2012. Prizes 1 HTC Trophy mobile phone by HTC!! â‚Ź70.00 cash by Found.gr 2 Domain Names .gr, .eu or 1 Domain Name .com by Papaki.gr 1 Web Hosting-Dynamic for 1 Year Free-1 Web Hosting Pro for 1 Year Free! by Papaki.gr Final Judges: Professor N. Avouris, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras-Dr K. Sgarbas, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Advisor of the Computer Society Student Student Branch, Univ of PatrasMr F. Evangelou, Managing Director at Nuevvo Webware Ltd.,Mr M. Bikos, IEEE Computer Society Student Student Branch Acting Chair The IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter at the University of Patras had the pleasure to announce the winner of the "Competition for Website Development" with Joomla CMS who was Pantazis Dimitris.3 sites were submitted, and judges were asked to evaluate on the basis of functionality,aesthetics, organizing information, navigation and The Browser Portability.
5. Fund-Raising During the Games Expo 2012 organization and throughout the year we managed to raise funds and created T-shirts with our Logos and IEEE Computer Society Stamps. Here are some photos
6.Social Events Boosting membership with a Student Branch Chapter Social and Orientation Night. Just before Christmas Holiday IEEE Computer Society Student Chapter and Fellow IEEE EMBS Student Chapter of University of Patras arranged their first social event to celebrate the end of 2011. During this event the members from both chapters had the opportunity to meet each other and most importantly, exchange opinions and knowledge as all of them have different scientific backgrounds such as Electrical and Computer Engineering , Medicine , Mechanical Engineering and Biology. Last but not least, the Members of the IEEE Student Branch University of Patras enjoyed the event and had a great time and a lot of fun!
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