IIT - Inventing the Future

The Office of Undergraduate Admission will close at 5:00pm today, November 26, 2008, in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, and will re-open at 8:30am on Monday, December 1, 2008.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, and wish you and your family a wonderful holiday weekend. We look forward to speaking with you soon!

Thanks,

Carolyn

Linda Goldstein, a 3rd-year Professional and Technical Communications (PTC) major from L.A., has started the LiiT magazine. LiiT is a is a literary arts magazine which solicits poetry and prose from members of the IIT community, including IIT staff and students from Chicago-Kent College of Law and Shimer College.

LiiT can be found on Facebook. You can also support the magazine by buying a copy of the first volume from Lulu for only $5.88. See a preview of the first few pages of LiiT here; the magazine is 69 pages total.

As a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the IIT Entrepreneurship Program, the Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE) and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) held an entrepreneurship and innovation event for high-achieving CPS students yesterday.

100 juniors and seniors from CPS Brooks, Chicago AG, Curie, Dunbar, Hyde Park Academy, Kennedy, Lane and Von Steuben worked with IIT student innovators and entrepreneurs in the MTCC ballroom. In teams, the CPS students created and presented a pitch for a product prototype.

The CPS students' interests and backgrounds included information processing, graphic design, architecture, pre-engineering, science, math and business. IIT President John Anderson (pictured right) and Dr. David Pistrui, Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Coleman Chair in Entrepreneurship, spoke at the welcome.

Thalia

INTERNATIONAL FEST 2008: A World Without Borders

The 33^rd annual International Fest was held Friday, November 7, 2008. It was a wonderful celebration of the d iversity of the IIT community.

 Did you know that over 90 countries are represented on IIT’s campus?  

Students come join IIT from countries spread across six continents including following: Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

International Fest consisted of the daytime event, Cuisine Without Borders, and the evening performance, Talent Without Borders. Both of the events allowed students to showcase their culture to IIT students, staff, faculty and administration.

Cuisine Without Borders was held from 11:30am - 2pm in the Herman Hall lobby. The student groups were given $150 to help supplement the cost for decorations for their booth and ingredients for their food dishes. The purpose of the daytime event is to showcase different cuisine throughout the world; however, it is also a competition and groups are being judged on their booth and dishes.  The judges were faculty and staff members on campus--I was a judge this year and it was great fun to sample the different food on friday!

Talent Without Borde rs was help at 7:30pm in the Herman Hall auditorium, which was almost full with spectators! There were 13 different student performances throughout the evening including: French Students Association, TV news skit highlighting French cultural life; IIT Turk, belly dancing singing; African Student Organization, energizing dance, Chinese Students Association, performing on the Guzheng (a traditi  onal music instrument); and Indian Student Association, showing how different countries influence the music, dance and culture of India.

It was an extremely entertaining evening with a wide range of countries and acts. Evening performance concluded with a fashion show which highlighted the traditional clothing attire around the world.

It was a wonderful day and helped highlight the diversity of cultures that make up the IIT community!

Thanks,

Carolyn

This past Saturday, November 8, we hosted our final fall open house, the Veterans' Day Weekend Open House. There were about 135 students, and the guest number totalled to around 280 people.

The Open House featured mostly the same activities as the Columbus Day Open House we hosted last month, but this time we shook up the order of events a little. The morning still started with a check-in plus continental breakfast, followed by a welcome to IIT during which guests heard from Gerald Doyle, Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Enrollment and Financial Aid, and Professor Stephen Sennott, Associate Dean, College of Architecture.

However, here, we swapped the campus tour/admission and financial aid overview portion of the Open House with the "explore your major" event. We also held a new session, a transfer admission overview. The campus tour, which we usually do earlier in the day, this time wrapped up the day's events. It was unfortunately very cold and we experienced some sleet and rain, but our guests (and of course our Student Ambassadors, who led the tour groups) were good sports, and appeared to have an enjoyable time of it.

To view photos of Saturday's open house, please visit our gallery. For information on our next Open House in February, check back on our visit page in December.

Thalia