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New committees are starting, apply now!

As you might (or should) know, the intro period will be happening in August, for this, we need your help! Also, two other new committees are starting: the Symposium and Acquisition Committees.
Companies appreciate it a lot that besides your studies you’ve been an active student. Not only is a position in a committee a great addition to your CV, it’s a lot of fun as well! Scroll down to read about every committee of Pattern and click on the link to apply!
Application deadline is February 10! Questions? Send an email to secretary@dsapattern.nl.

The Intro Week Committee (IWC) organizes the whole Introduction Week (in Eindhoven mainly). This includes: setting up an original Data Science business case (with a company), organizing a grand Pattern party, arranging a demo lecture with the coolest professor, devising the infamous crazy88 challenges, fixing t-shirts (with sponsors) for all the 1st years, arranging dinner(s), finding enough intro mommies and daddies for both Eindhoven and Tilburg, and also finding volunteers to help during the week itself.

The Intro Camp Committee (ICC) is responsible for the Intro Camp for the future 1st year bachelor Data Science students. Some examples of the committee's tasks are: arranging the info sessions at the beginning of the camp, arranging busses to travel between the universities and the accommodation, organizing fun activities at the camp (e.g. party, cantus, get to know each other games), organizing a formal event (e.g. business case), arranging food and drinks for the whole camp, and finding volunteers to help during the Intro Camp.

The Symposium Committee (SC) will organize one or multiple symposia with a certain topic. Pattern's first symposium was organized in collaboration with Magister JFT | E-law (law association, specifically for the master Law and Technology) and was about the overlap between Data Science and Law, hence the name Law meets Data Science . Tasks of this committee will include: thinking of a interesting topic, possible collaborating with another association and/ or company, finding a suitable location, finding speakers, promoting the event, finding sponsors, and arranging food and drinks.

The Acquisition Committee (AqCo) will be responsible for finding new sponsors and partners for Pattern, in collaboration with the External Affairs Officer (Michael) and Treasurer (Robin). The committee will contact companies, if a company is interested in a partnership, a meeting will be planned with the company, Michael or Robin, and you. Then a deal needs to be made and a contract needs to be signed. If a company wants to do a lunch lecture, the committee needs to find a date, time, location, arrange food, and do promotion. The idea is that you, as a committee member, will do the whole process from contacting a company to actually organzing a career event. *NOTE* this is a completely new commitee and will be set up as a pilot to see if it works out.

The Activity Committee (AC) organizes informal events, such as parties, several informal drinks, game nights, a cantus and other fun activities.

The Education Committee (EC) is responsible for supporting all Data Science students with their education. This includes complaint handling, book discounts, study sessions, panel meetings, course evaluations, and tutorships.

The Promotion Committee (PC) is mainly responsible for promoting Pattern in general. A few of its tasks include designing and selling merchandise, keeping up and stepping up our social media game, designing a Pattern house style and creating the monthly newsletter.
The IT committee (ITC) is responsible for the maintenance of our website and web shop. Besides that, they also work on making sure that our servers are all well protected and that we are in coherence with the data protection law. *NOTE* We highly value applications with previous experience in web development, however, this is not a requirement.

The First Years’ Committee (FYC) is similar to the AC but only first year students are allowed in this committee. The FYC or free to organize different kinds of activities. First year students that have no idea which committee to join, this might be the committee for you!
Bartending at Hubble, this is not a committee! This speaks for itself, you will never have to bartend if you're not available or don't want to. If you just want to do it once, that's fine as well.