Events

The ASB Fundraising Committee--with the help of SI students, faculty, staff, and alumni--raised a total of $15,434 for ASB 2011! More than doubling their fundraising total from last year, the committee was wildly successful due to the following programs:

• The Penny Wars raised $3,151
• The ASB Book Sale raised $1,252
• The Crowdrise Initiative raised $11,031

A very special thank you to our 2011 Fundriasing Committee:

Whitney Ferdon, Hanna Stelman, Emily Thompson, Catherine Hrbal, Elizabeth Skene, Aravindh Baskaran, Meg Hixon, Jessica Scott, Kayle Lenkner, Owen Ellis, Sarah Barbrow, Stephanie Smith, Susan Gilmore, Erica Willar, Becky Chu, Emily Rinck, Shi Chen, Lisa Marchessault, Kendra Tsai, Mallorie Colvin, Kristel Wieneke, Caitlin Holman, Jerry Marshall, Natalie Bond, Mallory Hood, Ted McCarthy, Cassandra Palmer, Hilary Townsend, Liu Liu, Mo Ibrahim, Karen Stover, Graham Hukill, Elena Azadbakht, Killian Escobedo, Candra Gill, Emily Bowman, Kayla Ondracek, Anne Cox, Steve Cherry, Can Wang

The 2011 SI Alternative Spring Break program did something quite exciting as a fundraising initiative this year... ASB students were the first academic unit of the University of Michigan to experiment with fundraising using the social networking site Crowdrise.com. In this pilot, SI students promoted their ASB projects and used the power of their own social networks to spread the word about SI ASB and raise funds for the program. In addition to traditional fundraising methods, the Fundraising Committee supplemented them with an online component that combines our academic expertise in social computing with the growing success of micro-donations. And it paid off...

SI ASB students and their networks raised $11,031 on Crowdrise alone this year!

Spread the word about ASB through your own contacts, by posting the ASB Crowdrise URL (www.crowdrise.com/siasb2011) on your favorite social networking sites. It's a great way to encourage enterprising students in their volunteer efforts and support a very worthwhile program. If you feel inclined, please donate! We need to raise over $30,000 to support ASB each year.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Ehrlicher Room (3100 NQ)

Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Location: 2245 NQ

Please RSVP on iTrack to attend.

New York City - Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 5:30 - 7:00pm
3 West Club
3 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
The reception will be held in the Lincoln Room.
Note: there is a business casual dress code – no denim, t-shirts, tennis shoes, etc.

Washington, DC - Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Library of Congress, James Madison Memorial Building
101 Independence Avenue
Washington, DC
The reception will be held in the Mumford Room (6th floor).

Chicago - Thursday, March 3, 2011, 6:00 - 7:30pm
The Berghoff Restaurant
17 W Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60603
The reception will be in the East Room.

All SI ASB Participants are required to attend a Pre-Departure Meeting before leaving for SI ASB.

New York City: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 11:30am - 1:00pm, 1255 North Quad
Washington D.C.: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 11:30am - 1:00pm, Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad)
Chicago: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 11:30am - 1:00pm, Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad)
Detroit: Monday, February 21, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad)
Make-Up Session*: Monday, February 21, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Ehrlicher Room (3100 North Quad)

*If you cannot attend the meeting for your designated city, you must attend the Make-Up Session Pre-Departure Meetings. Please register on iTrack to attend. If you are unable to attend any of these sessions, please contact Kelly Kowatch at kkowatch@umich.edu

2011 Penny Wars - February 7-11, 2011
SI Student Lounge, North Quad

UPDATE! Congratulations to the Faculty, Staff, and PhD Students of SI, who took first place in the 2011 Penny Wars with a count of $860.11! Total donations for the 2011 Penny Wars were $3,151.58... the most ever raised during this annual event. A big thanks to all of our donors!

SI specializations, faculty, and staff will be pitted against each other to donate the most amount of money. Pennies and checks* count as positive amounts; silver coins and dollar bills count against a group. Start saving your pennies!

You can follow the Penny Wars progress at SI ASB 2011 Penny Wars Update. View previous years' Penny Wars Results at Penny Wars

Rules of Engagement:
Offense - Put pennies or checks* in the container corresponding with your SI affiliation.
Defense - Put silver change and bills in the containers of your opponents to detract from their totals.
*Checks made out to the "University of Michigan" are counted as positive.

Virtual donations can also be made via UM SI ASB Crowdrise.

The battle lines have been drawn. The combatants are:

• ARM and PI - Archives and Records Management; Preservation of Information
• HCI, IAR and SC - Human-Computer Interaction; Information Analysis and Retrieval; Social Computing
• IPOL and IEM - Information Policy; Information Economics for Management
• LIS (with K-12 school media) - Library and Information Services
• CI - Community Informatics and Tailored
• Faculty, staff, and Ph.D. students

Here's how it works:

• Visit the UM SI ASB Crowdrise Team Page.
• Check out the students' team pages to see how they are directing the donations they receive - positively or negatively toward any group. The designations for every page will change during the week:
• SI ASB Page - Negative toward the faculty, staff, and Ph.D. students all week
• Monday & Tuesday - team member choice (positive)
• Wednesday and Thursday - team member choice (negative)
• Friday - free for all!
• Spread the word and get others to participate! Follow end of day tallies.

The School of Information sponsored a bus tour for 40 SI students through the city of Detroit on Saturday, January 8, 2011. The trip included many Detroit highlights including….

Corktown/Mexicantown, Historic Fort Wayne, Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant, Henry Ford’s House, 12th and Clairmont (the Site of 1967 Rebellion/Riot), the Original Model T Plant in Highland Park, Lafayette Park Comerica Park/Lions Stadium/Entertainment District, Guardian Building/Campus Martius, the Detroit Riverfront, Earthworks Urban Farm, the Georgia Street Collective, Belle Isle, Midtown/Cass Corridor including the UM Detroit Center.

Thursday, November 18, 2010 12:00 – 1:00pm, 1255 North Quad

Friday January 7, 2011, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, 3100 North Quad (Ehrlicher Room)

If you would like to learn more about the SI-ASB program, please plan to attend and register on iTrack under events.

If you are unable to attend either Interest Meetings or are a 2011 Winter Admitted student and have questions, contact Kelly Kowatch at kkowatch@umich.edu.

All interested School of Information and Informatics students should join the SI ASB Interest listserv on the UM Online Directory. Search for SIASB-Interest and add your UM Uniquname. You can read how to Join A Group/Listserv. The majority of all SI ASB-related communications go through this listserv, so please be sure to add yourself.

Wednesday, December 1 and Thursday, December 2 , 2010 9AM - 6PM - Media Gateway, North Quad
Books are $1 for soft covers, $2 for hard covers.

All book types are available! Cook books, literature, fiction, non-fiction, self-help, children’s, text books -- we have it all!

The 2011 SI ASB Fund Raising Committee raised $1252.49 from the 2011 book sale. Thanks to all that made book donations and purchases!

The SI Alternative Spring Break Fund Raising Committee is always collecting books of all types for the annual SI ASB Book Sale.

Donations for the next book sale will be collected anytime before December 1. Contact Kelly Kowatch at kkowatch@umich.edu if you would like to make a donation. Pick-up can be arranged. All book types are welcome! Cook books, literature, fiction, self-help, children's, text books -- whatever you have to give, we'll take! Please spread the word!

Saturday, January 15, 2011, 12:00pm - 5:30pm
2255 North Quad

The School of Information students, alumni, faculty, and staff will come together as one community to offer their time and abilities by engaging in multiple concurrent projects with local Michigan organizations that have expressed a need.

If you are interested in participating in this event, please register at SI Service Day 2011.

This event is sponsored by the School of Information Student Association.

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Read about the event in the SI Service Day 2011.