filename: "e-club-public-services" contents: activities of the mit entrepreneurs club's public-services and related on-and-off-campus educational and other outreach programs; p-s chair's comments; clients listing; rewrite1: wed 24 nov 93; -------- draft draft draft chair: richard shyduroff at mit: 253-2000; fax: 253-8000; at home: 864-4039; emergencies: append "urgent" flag to x3-2000 messages to richard, or page directly: 468-2886 (type in call-back number after 3 tones); mit mail: E15-443, MIT, Cambridge, Ma. 02139 This year, The E-Club has been quite active in the public services area, as a sampling of the following projects suggests, and opportunities abound for MIT students, alum and members of The MIT Community to get involved: assistance with non-profit educational organisations' start-ups, like Cambridge's Parents' Forum, The North Attleboro Kids' Sci-Tech Center, and Boston's Gang Peace African-American Kids' Inventors and Entrepreneurs Club, ranging from brainstorming help through helping to develop materials for applications for IRS 501(c)(3) charitable or private operating foundation status. The E-Club also worked with the City of Cambridge to develop the Cambridge Business Development Center, which is Co-Directed by E-Club Co-Founder and Co-Director, Douglass Ling. The E-Club also offers area k-12 students from public and private schools a variety of Athena-based, Internet-as-a-research-tool courses which introduce kids to electronic mail, collaborative writing and "distance learning" projects. Alexander "Zinky" Shyduroff is the kid-T.A. in this wide-ranging program, which offers three areas of study through the MIT Educational Studies Program's fall _Splash_ weekend marathon and the ten-consecutive-Saturday series known as the High School Studies Program. On most weekends, E-Club Co-Founder and Co-Director Richard Shyduroff, Zinky Shyduroff, E-Club Research Associate Joost Bonsen, '92, and guest tutors from the MIT Community, offer the same sessions for free for MIT parents and their kids on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons. The emphasis is on bringing kids together with their local science teachers and school librarians to explore what The Internet has to offer for kids in schools, doing home-schooling or in "distance learning" environments. On campus The E-Club offers a variety of networking and business-plan writing seminars and workshops, and is the original developer of the MIT $10K Student Entrepreneurial Competition, now in it's fifth year. The MIT Entrepreneurs Club, aka: "The E-Club, meets nearly every Tuesday, year-round, at MIT in building 66-144, at 6-7pm. Area university, college and k-12 students are welcome to attend and participate at the Tuesday meetings, which are generally open to the public. Co-Director Richard Shyduroff also offers undergraduates a 6-credit seminar titled: "Starting New Technology-Based Business Enterprises at MIT" which meets on Tuesday evenings at 7-9pm in 66-148. Further community outreach is planned for 1994 with Harvard University's new Undergraduate Entrepreneurs Club, which is being re-designed and re-structured with assistance from Mr. Shyduroff and select members of The MIT E-Club, The 10K Committee (Joost Bonsen, Chair) and MIT Alum. Between the activities of the two organisations, many more members of the local public will be able to receive assisatnce with their profit or non-profit new enterprises. So, if you think you have something to offer, or if you just want to get involved with The E-Club to see how we might help you, or citizens off campus who could use our combined talents and energies, just drop by any Tuesday meeting, give us a call, or better yet send e-mail to: or and if you have Athena access, browse around the e-club locker. Thanks! And we'll see you! - richard shyduroff --------