It's official. Startup Weekend is coming to State College if my beautifully intricate relatively simple URL hack is any indicator. See for yourself: http://statecollege.startupweekend.com Startup Weekend has not advertised State College as a "Future Weekend" yet, but the city vote results were hard to ignore.

Today, six Security and Risk Analysis (SRA) Club members and myself attended the first day of the 2nd Annual National Security Analysis and Risk Management Conference hosted by SARMA and George Mason Law School's Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Program. My intentions are not to summarize the speakers events, but they are instead to share specific points. As Matt wrote in his previous post, SARMA is an acronym for ...

The Security and Risk Management Association will be hosting their 2nd annual conference in Arlington, VA from May 15th to 17th. The conference will feature panel sessions from some of the most respected and renowned intelligence and security professionals in the private & government industries. I am attending with several other SRA club members and will be live blogging throughout the duration of the event on Maiselog. Stay ...

The Social Media Meets E-Ship, which was originally advertised as a BBQ, took place at the Indian Pavilion in downtown State College this evening. Our staff meteorologist, Daehee Park, had predicted a thunderstorm earlier this week and moved the BBQ indoors (it was actually quite nice outside throughout our entire dinner). Although the event was moved inside, the food was absolutely delicious, and the company ...

This Friday afternoon we are having a cookout at Spring Creek Park for Penn Staters who have a passion for web 2.0, social media, and entrepreneurship. The event is being jointly organized by David Adewumi, Liz Kisenwether from the E-Ship Minor, and me. The weather forecast says it will be 70 degrees and sunny, so it'll be a fun time with burgers, hot dogs, and kickball. More importantly, we ...

I wrote an enthusiastic post yesterday, after the IST Mentorship Breakfast, about the success of the IST Mentorship Program. A source says otherwise. I didn't realize it at the time, but only 3 IST Mentors showed up at yesterday's Mentorship Breakfast out of only 7 who RSVP'd 5 IST Mentors showed up at yesterday's Mentorship Breakfast. There are about 35 Mentors total. I talked to a couple of Mentees ...

Mentors and mentees in the IST Mentorship Program gathered this morning for a hot breakfast in IST 110. The new IST Alumni Society President Peter Lechner said that the program, which was started by the SRA Club in March earlier this year, has been successful beyond expectations. The SRA Club matched up students with distinctive alumni by common interests so that students could receive advice and career coaching. ...

The 2008 edition of the IST Night of Honors happened earlier tonight. The short and sweet event hosted by Dean Foley went pretty smooth. I just wanted to congratulate the winners and all nominees on a great year! Freshman of the Year Winner: Tammara Ross Nominees: Russ Beck, Pat Bonner, Justin Brown, Michael Castner, Eileen Chan Sophomore of the Year Winner: Ryan Muller Nominees: Tom Bierly, Hannah Hershey Junior of the Year Winner: Anthony ...