Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Olin has five teams (Captain Morgan; CannonFodder; DROP TABLE TEAMS; Ground Control & The UltraViolet Catastrophe) competing in in the Microsoft Puzzle Challenge. Thanks to Professor Chris Morse's Puzzle Cocurricular the teams have been preparing for a couple months now and it shows... The Ultraviolet Catastrophe is cu……rrently ranked #3! Perhaps most notably Olin has 5 of the 15 teams competing in Cambridge, not bad seeing as only 25 schools on the continent are invited to play.（更多内容）

danah boyd, Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society & Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division visit Olin.

The schedule is as follows:

* 5:00-6:00 pm: dana boyd "Youth-Generate Culture: Growing Up in an…… Era of Social Media"
* 6:00-7:00 pm: refreshments in the Auditorium entrance
* 7:00-8:00 pm: Steven Sinofsky "Developing Real World Software"

Please visit www.olin.edu/events for more information（更多内容）

On Tuesday, November 10 John Bullard, President of the Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole, MA will speak to Olin students about "Being a Sustainable Engineer." Following his talk he will do a SEA information session in the Milas Hall Mezzanine for student who might be interested to hear more about the Semest……er at Sea program.

To learn more about John, please click here: http://www.sea.edu/aboutsea/bullard.aspx and to learn more about SEA click here: http://www.sea.edu/home/index.aspx （更多内容）

Wonder why some good ideas in the world get rejected? Why bad ones get accepted? It's about communication and persuasion, and this talk, based on the upcoming book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, provides honest, provocative and funny lessons on how to present ideas to groups of people. Based on Berkun's 15 years of ……experience pitching, lecturing and teaching groups of all sizes, including appearances on NPR, CNBC and MSNBC. Bring your toughest questions about public speaking, pitching and tough communication situations for the no-holds barred Q&A.

www.scottberkun.com （更多内容）