First Web Developer Club of the Semester

I was reelected as the secretary of the Web Developer Club at Moraine Park Technical College during our first meeting of the fall semester! We held elections for the president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, and student senate representative. I became the secretary of the Web Developer Club last spring, and I’ve been a member since last fall.

I was very happy to see some members from last year as well as several new people. I think it’s going to be a good semester for the WDC. It seems like a good group of people who really want to get involved.

We discussed a few ideas we may pursue this semester. We’re hoping to have at least one field trip. There’s a possibility that we will get club shirts as well. Next month we’ll be voting on logos.

The Web Developer Club is trying to bring back the open lab for the Web developer students. As I mentioned last semester, we have held an open lab once a week in one of the computer classrooms where students can work on their homework, get help, provide help, or share sites and information related to Web design.

Our next meeting is Thursday, October 20. If you’re in the IT field and want to learn new things, network, and have fun, think about joining the Web Developer Club.

Open Lab Hosted by the Web Club

One of the groups I am in at the West Bend Moraine Park Technical College campus is the Web Club. Most of the people in the club are people I have class with on a regular basis, and we end up spending a lot of time together.

It was the club’s idea to have an open lab where students in the Web Developer program could go to work on homework and get help if they needed it. I’m there almost every Monday to work on homework since the open lab is right before my evening class.

One day I was having trouble with one of my assignments. I just couldn’t get the JavaScript to work even though everything looked like it was coded (typed) correctly. Somebody from my class was also working in the lab. She took a look at my code and told me a few things to try to make it work. The problem ended up being an external link placement issue. I was very thankful for the help!

Open lab also gives us the opportunity to show each other projects we are working on and get feedback from others. Sometimes people find a really cool or funny website and share it with each other. One of the sites we were looking at one day was actor Jim Carrey’s site: http://www.jimcarrey.com/. It is pretty amazing.

The open lab is on Mondays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in room S112 at the West Bend MPTC campus. Come join us for homework or for fun!