Hello everyone, I’m the Membership officer for the Puget Sound Club.

Here’s the online renewal link (https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/PayDues.dyn?groupID=159) for those who are in a hurry and don’t need to read the rest of the note. I realize this note is not formatted succinctly for your smartphone… J

For the rest of us there are some great reasons to join now. The club offers a broad spectrum of events for its members, and is a great way to stay connected with MIT and friends. Your membership entitles you to attend our member-only events, featuring lectures from visiting MIT professors and other exclusive events and activities.

Each year we host:

• Monthly lectures and events featuring prominent local speakers and visiting professors from MIT.

• Monthly Happy Hours/Networking Events in Seattle and the Eastside

• Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT) - we select 5 teachers each year to attend this one-week summer program for primary, middle, and high-school teachers to take a "drink from the fire hose" that is MIT.

• Discounts to the MIT Enterprise Forum.

• December luncheon with current MIT students from our area during their Winter break.

• Dinner honoring new students admitted to MIT for the following year.

• Annual Summer Picnic - A great chance to meet old friends and make new ones.

If you didn’t participate in the club last year, you missed out on an exciting program of activities and events throughout the greater Seattle region:

·         Power Tools for Interviewing – Redmond

·         Special MIT Club Volunteer Cruise

·         MIT Admissions Meeting & EC Dinner – Bellevue

·         Docent Led Tour of Seattle Art Museum – Seattle

·         King County Water Treatment Plant Tour – Seattle

·         Event Planning Meeting – Redmond

·         Pictures and Tales from MIT 2008 – Redmond

·         MIT Club Tour of UW ISIS Lab – Seattle – Seattle

·         Toast to IAP – Seattle

·         Eastside Happy Hours – Bellevue

·         Arachnoscience: Science of Spiders and Insects – Woodinville

·         MIT Prof O’Neil: Looking beyond English – Seattle

·         MIT Club Annual Board Meeting – Bellevue

·         King County Water Treatment Plant Tour – Seattle

·         An Evening with MIT Prof Grimson – Seattle

·         Northwest Startup DEMO – Seattle

·         Volunteer at Shoreline Food Lifeline   Shoreline

·         Electroimpact Tour – Mukilteo

·         MIT Deputy Dean Rick Locke: Sustainability Challenges – Seattle

Plus discounted attendance at a variety of MIT Enterprise Forum events, such as:

·         MITEF Dinner: The Emergence of the Semantic Web – Seattle

·         MITEF Venture Lab: Sustainability for Start-ups – Seattle

·         MITEF: Clean Tech: Will Green Return the Green? – Seattle

·         MITEF Dinner Mtg on Social Media: Business Strategies – Bellevue

·         MITEF Dinner Program: To VC or Not to VC?   Bellevue