ATS Mahjong Tournament
Peter Tia
Sat Jan 29, 07-10:00pm, McCormick
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join us for ATS's annual mahjong tournament! The teaching session starts at 7, and the tournament starts at 8. We'll have prizes for first, second, third, fourth places (gift certificates from Boston Tea Stop, JP Licks, Galleria, Boston Common Loew's) and best newbie (a mahjong set)!
Contact: Peter Tia, petertia@mit.edu
Sponsor: Association of Taiwanese Students
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Annual MIT Mystery Hunt
Kate Baker
Fri Jan 14 thru Mon Jan 17, 12pm-??:00am, Lobby 7
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join us for the 2011 Mystery Hunt, the annual MIT puzzle and sleep-deprivation competition. Get together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The hunt starts Friday at noon and ends when the coin is found, some days later.
Please sign up at the website. Lone hunters looking for a team can sign up as unattached hunters. New hunters always welcome. It is strongly encouraged that teams register for hunt by December 17th but we will happily accept submissions after this date.
(This year's Hunt supported by the Large Event Fund)
Web: http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www
Contact: Kate Baker, puzzle@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mystery Hunt
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Become a Game Master for an Educational Alternate Reality Game!
Jason Haas, Scot Osterweil
Wed Jan 19, 04-06:00pm, E15-301
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None, but prior CMS or Teacher Education courses helpful
Join fellow MIT undergraduates to learn more about an exciting UROP opportunity for Spring 2011. The MIT Education Arcade will be debuting its first Curated Game, connecting middle schoolers to the scientists and museums of the Smithsonian Institution, and we need student Game Masters. This event is informational about the nature of the game and the work for the semester. You'll see student work already done for the game and learn more about this exciting opportunity!
Contact: Jason Haas, E15-309, (617) 715-4052, jhaas@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Bridge Tournament
Richard Stanley, Richard Stanley
Fri Jan 28, 12-06:00pm, 2-290
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The Mathematics Department challenges all MIT bridge players to a team-of-four tournament. Those without a full team can still come and hope to find teammates. Refreshments offered, prizes awarded. Come and have a good time.
Contact: Richard Stanley, 2-375, x3-7930, rstan@math.mit.edu
Sponsor: Mathematics
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Game Design Challenge: You've Just Got Two Students and a Microphone
Rik Eberhardt, Sara Verrilli, Clara Fernandez-Vara, Abe Stein
Tue-Thu, Jan 18-20, 25-27, 11am-04:00pm, NE25-375, Lecture: 11am-1pm/Lab: 2pm-4pm
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2011
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: "Geared for Freshmen and Sophomores."
Have you ever wanted to make a video game but didn't know where to start? This class will provide the tools and instruction required to create what we're calling a 'one-button audio game'. Students in the class will work in pairs to create one game using an engine created at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab codenamed 'Click to Speak'. As part of the challenge, the games are audio only and only using sounds produced with a simple microphone.
The class is scheduled to run for two weeks. Each week consists of 6 hours of lecture and guided work time, with 3 or more additional hours of lab time. Topics covered in lectures include: game design, writing dialog for games, designing characters and themes, recording audio, and developing for the one-button audio game engine, 'Click to Speak'. The games will be featured and available for download from the GAMBIT website at the end of the two weeks (but the students will own the work created).
Participants should be Freshmen or Sophomores at MIT, Harvard, or Wellesley who are interested in designing games but have not yet had the chance to do so. No programming experience is required. Lecture 11am to 1pm/Lab 2pm to 4pm
Contact: Rik Eberhardt, NE25-383, x4-2173, reberhar@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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Go Tournament
Brian Lee
Wed Jan 26, 10am-05:00pm, W20-491
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Prereq: None
A go tournament will be held Wednesday, Jan 26, 10-1, 2-5 in the Student Center/room 491 with an hour break for lunch.
Beginner's division runs from 10am-1pm, and advanced division will run for both three hour sessions. Format will be four rounds of handicapped games, with 30 minutes main, 20 stones in 5 minutes overtime.
Andy Liu 9d (bigbadwolf on KGS) has graciously donated a private lesson as a first place prize. KGS+ subscriptions are available for top four places.
Preregister by emailing mitgoclub-tournament@mit.edu with your name and approximate strength. (Indicate beginner if you don't know)
Web: http://web.mit.edu/go/
Contact: Brian Lee, (551) 427-2546, brilee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Go Club
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Go Workshop/Meetings
Brian Lee
Mon, Wed, Jan 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 07-10:00pm, W20, PDR 1/2
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: None. Beginners welcome!
Special Workshop series for advanced players as well as beginners.
Advanced lectures, aimed at the 10k-1d level, will be held each Monday, taught by Walther Chen 5d.
Beginner lectures, aimed at beginner - 20k level, will be held each Wednesday, taught by Brian Lee 1d
Meetings are in the Student Center, 3rd floor (Private Dining Rooms 1/2)
See also: Go Tournament, on Wednesday, Jan. 26 2011.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/go/
Contact: Brian Lee, (551) 427-2546, brilee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Go Club
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Harry Potter Year 7: Hogwarts Under Siege
Paul Weaver, Emily Rosser, Andrew Menard, Jake Beal
Sun-Mon, Wed-Sat, Jan 21-24, 26-29, 06-12:00pm, Varies, Times will vary per player.
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2011
Limited to 65 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Must fill out application. E-mail year7@mit.edu to request.
The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a darker place this year than ever before. The Dark Lord is on the rise outside the walls, and it is an open secret that his influence has penetrated the Ministry of Magic. Muggleborn wizards have been declared illegal. Fear rules the streets, and many wizarding families have been murdered or gone into hiding. Inside Hogwarts, Snape has replaced Dumbledore as Headmaster, despite persistent rumors of foul play, and the Dark Arts are openly taught. Some students are revelling in the changes, while others are pursuing quiet-- and not-so-quiet-- rebellion. Familiar faces are missing from the classrooms, and new students replace them. Almost every day, new word arrives of relatives killed and friends vanished.
And yet, school goes on. There are NEWTs to be studied for, and house points to be won; Quidditch matches to be played, and, of course, dates to be found for the Yule Ball. Your time at Hogwarts is coming to an end, one way or another; you'd better get everything you can out
of it.
Hogwarts Under Siege is a "ten-day" live-action role-playing game. New and experienced players welcome.
Contact: Ariel Segall, (617) 642-9213, year7@mit.edu
Sponsor: Assassins Guild
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Integration Bee
Abhinav Kumar
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
See individual session descriptions below.
Contact: Abhinav Kumar, 2-169, x3-4057, abhinav@math.mit.edu
Sponsor: Mathematics
Integration Bee Qualifying Testing
Abhinav Kumar
Stop by at any point during the session, for a quick test of your single variable integration skills. Top scorers qualify for the Integration Bee. No knowledge beyond 18.01 necessary.
Fri Jan 14, 05-07:00pm, 4-149
Integration Bee
Abhinav Kumar
No enrollment limit. No advance sign up (but contestants must qualify, see Friday, Jan. 14th). Single session event. Come watch your fellow students match wits and single variable integration skills for prizes and the title of "Grand Integrator."
Tue Jan 18, 05-08:00pm, 10-250
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Introduction to Contract Bridge
Brian Duran, Gloria Tsoi
Mon, Thu, Jan 3, 6, 10, 13, 20, 24, 27, 07-09:30pm, 4-149
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Come and discover the fun and intellectual challenge associated with contract bridge! In this course, we explore the fundamentals of the game, including bidding, declarer play, and defense. The lessons are based on The Club Series by Audrey Grant, published by the American Contract Bridge League.
Each session will consist of a lecture, several examples, and supervised play. By the end of this eight-session course, the student will have learned enough to play bridge socially, and start exploring the exciting world of duplicate bridge.
There will also be an individual tournament at the end of the course, with prizes for the winners.
Please bring $10 for a book deposit on the first day of class. We will return your $10 at the end of IAP and you get to keep the book.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitdlbc/www/index.html#IAPBridge
Contact: Brian Duran, iapbridge@mit.edu
Sponsor: Mathematics
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Introduction to Japanese Chess
Keigo Arai, Sho Sato
Fri Jan 14, 06-07:30pm, 4-153
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This course is an introduction to Japanese Chess (Shogi).
Shogi is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess and Chinese Xiangqi. What makes Shogi unique among them is that a player may take a piece that had been previously captured and place it again. It is this rule that makes it the hardest for computer programmers to beat the highest rated player of Shogi.
We will learn how to move pieces for the first 20 minutes and then enjoy playing Shogi after that.
Contact: Keigo Arai, karai@mit.edu
Sponsor: Japanese Association of MIT
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Play StarCraft 2
Philip Tan
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
In IAP, students will be creating maps for Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game, StarCraft 2. (See the "StarCraft 2 Map Editing" IAP course for details.) Play their creations and give them vital feedback while crushing your enemies! From January 24th to January 26th from 3-5 PM, come to the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab above Legal Sea Foods in Kendall and play a couple of matches against other students. This IAP series will culminate on January 27th with a multiplayer tournament based entirely on the new maps from NOON-6PM! Good luck and have fun!
Join us at 4PM on Tuesday and Wednesday for pro-gamer analysis of the new maps with Sean Plott a.k.a. Day [9], the 2007 WCG Starcraft Pan American Champion and host of Day [9] Daily online show!
Contact: Generoso Fierro, NE25-385, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
Philip Tan
Mon Jan 24, 03-05:00pm, NE25-311, FREE PLAY!
Philip Tan
Tue Jan 25, 03-05:00pm, NE25-311, FREE PLAY!
Philip Tan
Wed Jan 26, 03-05:00pm, NE25-311, FREE PLAY!
Philip Tan
This IAP series will culminate on January 27th with a multiplayer tournament based entirely on the new maps!
Thu Jan 27, 12-06:00pm, NE25-311, TOURNAMENT!
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StarCraft 2 Map Editing
Philip Tan
Mon Jan 24, 11am-03:00pm, NE25-311, Lecture 11AM to Noon/LAB 12-3
Tue Jan 25, 12-03:00pm, NE25-311, LAB 12-3PM
Tue Jan 25, 04-05:00pm, NE25-311, Day [9] Guest Discussion
Wed Jan 26, 12-03:00pm, NE25-311, LAB 12-3PM
Wed Jan 26, 04-05:00pm, NE25-311, Day [9] Guest Discussion
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2011
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Enjoy StarCraft 2 but getting bored with the basic Blizzard maps? Have a great idea for a complex single-player mission, or do you just want to whip up a weird arena for your friends? GAMBIT US Executive Director Philip Tan presents a basic introduction to the StarCraft 2 Galaxy Map Editor by Blizzard entertainment. After the talk, students are invited to create their own maps on their own laptops or in the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.
Interested students are also encouraged to check out the "Play StarCraft 2" IAP offering and help playtest the new maps!
Join us at 4PM on Tuesday and Wednesday for a live-stream discussion with Sean Plott a.k.a. Day [9] (2007 WCG Starcraft Pan American Champion and host of the Day [9] Daily online show)
Contact: Generoso Fierro, Ne25-385, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
Sponsor: Comparative Media Studies
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