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Ask any student, and you’ll likely get the same response: Get involved! The number of student organizations in IST keeps growing; it’s a unconfined way to alimony the learning going outside the classroom, connect with other students, and plane network with potential employers! Explore the possibilities and get involved one of theHigherof IST’s student organizations. “By stuff a member of variegated clubs, I have met so many IST students! It is unchangingly nice walking into matriculation on the first day and seeing someone that you know or at least recognize. Penn State doesn’t finger so intimidating to me anymore considering I know that I can unchangingly walk into IST and finger right at home.”—Maria Verardi, ’14 IST, 2013-2014 Women in IST (WIST) president, IST Diplomat Room Reservations: Please go to the 25Live scheduling system and follow these instructions to reserve your event space on campus. IST Student organizations, clubs, and committees: Competitive Cyber Security Organization (CCSO) The Competitive Cyber Security Organization (CCSO) at the Pennsylvania State University aims to educate those involved on current cyber security methods and practices and facilitate an informative environment where students from all educational levels and backgrounds can master unscratched computing practices. The club hosts trips to cyber security conferences and competitions locally and nationally where members can practice what they have learned. Members are not required to shepherd these competitions, but they are encouraged to protract learning. President:Mark Wallace Adviser:Nicklaus Giacobe Website:https://cyberlions.github.io Information Assurance (IA) Club The Information Assurance (IA) Club is designed to supplement and proffer the information security concepts discussed in the IST and SRA majors. Through talks, demonstrations, interactive seminars, competitions, and guest speakers, they seek to alimony members informed of cutting-edge concepts and explore the challenges of the future, while upholding the highest levels of values and responsibility.The club moreover invites corporations to speak well-nigh current issues facing the industry, as well as provide networking opportunities and information sessions for club members. President:Ted Decker Adviser:Marc Friedenberg Website:   IST Consulting Group The IST Consulting Group focuses on the “real life” of consultants, going vastitude the classroom experience. Students with an interest in the consulting field get together to work on consulting projects within the polity and learn from current consultants well-nigh what life is like in the industry. President:Celeste Tanega Adviser:David Fusco Website:http://icg.ist.psu.edu IST Diplomats The IST Diplomats are a select group of undergraduate students in theHigherof Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus. The IST Diplomats are a vital plug-in in profitable theHigherin the recruitment and retention of highly qualified students and serving as representatives of IST to prospective students and families, recruiters, and corporate partners, and friends. The IST Diplomats work closely with the Office of the Dean,MinutiaeOffice, Office of Inclusion & Diversity Engagement, Office of Career Solutions, IST Recruiting Office and Advising Center and have the opportunity to develop liaison skills, network with professionals, mentor students, and establish working relationships with higher and university faculty, students, staff and administrators wideness the Penn State system. Their mission is to create an sensation of the wonk programs and career opportunities in or related to information technology, systems, security, risk analysis, and management sciences. IST Diplomats squire with prospective student visits to campus, unshut houses, orientation programs, professional information sessions, student panel sessions, new student orientation, alumni functions, towers tours, and events and/or visits by corporate partners and executives. Before rhadamanthine an IST Diplomat, students must wield to the IST Diplomat Leadership Academy. This one semester, one credit matriculation focuses on various aspects of leadership and moreover touches on professional minutiae topics. Click here for increasingly information on the IST Diplomat Leadership Academy.  Applications for the fall 2018 diplomat matriculation are now open. For increasingly information, please send questions to leadership@ist.psu.edu. 2017-2018 Diplomats: Allison Alicea Alexandra "Allie" Bardusch Sarah Coughlin Emma Dodoo Sima Farzanegan Sam French Nicole Generose Sabrina Ghazal Dan Goga Stephen Goldsman Samatha Heavner Eric Hite Heather Johnson Kody Kem Andres Kline, Vice President Mihir Marathe Christina McMahon Patrice Morris Samuel Onimus Sean Parsons Mckenzie Powell Bianca Quattrocchi Lauren Ritter Annie Schoen, President Melanie Treff Megan Tucker A Sample of IST Diplomat Activities and Responsibilities: Alumni Events Parent’s Weekend New Student Orientation Building/Facilities Tours Prospective Student MeetingsUnshutHouseWontedStudent ProgramsHigherDevelopment Activities IST Benefitting THON IST Benefitting THON strives to bring the IST polity together to support the Penn State Dance Marathon (THON) and the Four Diamonds Fund. Through tropical partnerships among students, alumni, sense and staff in the College, IST FTK will “Inspire Hope” by providing emotional and financial support.  Executive Chair:Sarah Hume Adviser:Don Shemanski Website:http://thon.ist.psu.edu IST Honors Society The purpose of Gamma Tau Phi is to recognize and encourage scholarship, leadership, and service among students enrolled in theHigherof Information Sciences and Technology. The Society strives to develop skilled, motivated, and upstanding future leaders in the field of information technology. Students with upper wonk merits have the opportunity to network and shepherd special events together. President:Steve Cromity Adviser:Andrew Sears Website:http://gtp.ist.psu.edu IST Interest House, Special Living Option The IST Interest House is a special living option misogynist to students who would like to live among other students with similar interests. By immersing students in the IST and SRA majors in an environment conducive to interaction with one another, students are worldly-wise to squire each other with school work and build lasting friendships both in and out of the classroom. President:Paul Suchko Adviser:Alison Murphy Website:http://slo.ist.psu.edu IST Student Government The IST Student Government is the official voice of the student soul to all faculty, staff, and administration. Students are given the opportunity to express feedback and discuss all matters surrounding any speciality of the IST wits and the unstipulated student population. Student Government serves to build a culture of learning and leadership that would be expected of tomorrow’s leaders. President:Carson Brown Adviser:Andrew Sears Website:http://sg.ist.psu.edu Nittany Data Labs Nittany Data Labs provides students with education, exposure and wits in Data Science. It provides a comprehensive training program to teach and provide the tools and framework for students interested in largest understanding Data Science - both in the fundamentals as well as the state-of-the-art techniques. After completing the internal training program, the club shifts to providing real corporate and research projects for students to test their skills. By towers a polity virtually Data Science, we hope to grow the field here at Penn State. President:Sean Parsons Adviser: TBD Website:nittanydatalabs.org Red Cell Analytics Lab The Red Cell Analytics Lab promotes the research, practice, and using of structured analytics, hair-trigger thinking, and visual analytics. Through collaborating with university and external partners, the RCAL strives to bring real world problems into the hands of students to enhance supersensual output. President:McKenzie Powell Adviser:Jake Graham Website:rcal.ist.psu.edu Security and RiskWringer(SRA) Club The Security and RiskWringer(SRA) Club was founded to help students learn increasingly well-nigh the multi-disciplined SRA major and its applications in both the public and private sectors. Members of the SRA Club enjoy expanding their knowledge of the security and risk wringer field through a variety of activities including unstipulated meetings, speaker events, social events, special projects, seminars and networking events. President:Matt Ruff Adviser:Johnson Kinyua Website:http://sites.psu.edu/securityriskanalysisclub WIRED IN The purpose of Women International Racial Ethnic Diversity Intercultural Network (WIRED IN) is to unite underrepresented students in theHigherof IST and cater a supportive network that fosters an inclusive environment. President:Emma Dodoo Adviser:Jason Gines Website:   Women in IST (WIST) The purpose of Women in IST (WIST) is to promote a sense of unity among the women of IST by offering networking opportunities, career resources, polity and wonk presentations, and leadership training. The organization strives to support the recruitment and sustained interest of women in theHigherof Information Sciences and Technology, ensuring that sexuality students and sense members are equally and urgently involved in all aspects of education and in the rapidly waffly world of technology. President:Bailey MacDowell Adviser:Rita Griffith Website:http://wist.ist.psu.edu World Campus Technology Club The Penn State World Campus Technology Club was founded to be a networking platform for students with interests relating to the IST and SRA programs offered through World Campus. While organizations exist that help students to network and meet, none had existed prior that unliable students to gather virtually the interest of technology. The Penn State World Campus Technology Club was founded in the Spring of 2014. The leadership is well-balanced of 5 student workbench members, 3 advisers, and other collaborators within the World Campus programs. President:Ray Vasquez Adviser:Gary Heberling Website: Start Your Own Student Organization IST student organizations focus primarily on IST topics and students. To form an IST organization, founders must have unrepealable things in place as well as clearance from the dean of IST. The pursuit is a template for starting a new IST student organization: 1. Develop the organization concept The first step in starting an IST organization is to determine its focus, which should be related to information technology. Try to envision what the organization would do on a regular understructure or if it would have any special events. Also, read the current IST student organization descriptions and see if your ideas are once stuff carried out by flipside organization or if they could be integrated into flipside organization. After forming your own ideas well-nigh the organization, seek translating from others, including your professors and other knowledgeable people. Explain your reasoning for starting the organization and ask if they think the organization would goody IST students. Listen to their suggestions and concerns. 2. Get an tipster Your tipster should be a sense or staff member who is knowledgeable well-nigh the subject matter of the organization. Ask IST sense and staff who they think might be a suitable candidate for your adviser. Approach a potential tipster with your ideas well-nigh your club and its purpose and ask if he or she would be willing to help you with the organization and wilt the organization's official adviser. If you are turned lanugo by one person, alimony searching and speaking with sense and staff; sooner you will find the right person for the job. 3. Write a proposal Consider the pursuit when writing a proposal: What are you trying to succeed with your organization? What can the organization bring to the college? How will this organization help IST students? Why is your organization necessary? Has something similar once been created? What does your organization need to succeed its goals (funding, room reservations, support from the college, corporate support, members, etc.)? 4. Submit proposal to the Dean It is important to obtain the dean's clearance considering he will be worldly-wise to provide your organization with funding and other resources. Once you have a finalized your proposal, it's time to discuss it with the Dean of IST. You will need to contact the Dean's office for an appointment. Present your proposal to the Dean explaining that you have support of your tipster and of other members of the sense and staff. If the Dean rejects your proposal, find out why your proposal was not accepted. Consult with your tipster and other sense and staff for advice. Rewrite your proposal based on the Dean's comments and present it again. Once the Dean accepts your proposal, you officially have a new IST organization. 5. Elect leadership Once you are an official IST organization, you will need to create a strong wiring for the success of your organization. Care and consideration should be taken when electing your initial leadership, considering your leaders will form the cadre of your organization. The executive workbench should be made up self-sustaining thinkers who voice their opinions, take initiative, and get things done.Possible executive officer positions: president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, Webmaster, social chair, corporate liaison, and public relations representative/historian. Look at other IST organizations and ask your tipster for examples of how to manage the executive workbench and how the executive workbench should manage the organization's members. 6. Recognition by the IST Student Government The leadership of your organization must contact the IST Student Government for its clearance and wisecrack within the IST Student Government constitution. Once tried by the president of the IST Student Government and the executive board, the organization will be signed into the constitution. The throne of the recognized IST organization will serve on the executive workbench of the IST Student Government. 7. Recruiting For a successful organization, recruit members of all matriculation years and with a variety of skills. The older or increasingly experienced members can pass lanugo their knowledge to the younger, less experienced members. It is necessary to have younger members considering in a few years they will be the leadership and without them you organization cannot survive in the long run.  Footer Quick Links Contact Us Directions Support IST Nittany Lion Careers Directory Connect Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Flickr LinkedIn The Pennsylvania State University © 2018 Privacy Legal Accessibility Copyright Log in