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Aero Design is a multidisciplinary student team focused on designing, testing, building, and flying small-scale RC aircraft. Each year, the team works on unique and challenging projects that help members gain experience with aerodynamics, CAD software, physical construction, and the engineering process as a whole.

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24 Hour access to the Aero Design Lab [after 1 semester of active involvement], flying trips, hands on experience with composites, laser cutting, and aerodynamic concepts.

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The purpose and goal of this organization is to provide a safe space for black, female identifying students in engineering and technology, alongside providing tools and resources to aid their professional and academic excellence

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Our mission is to educate students about blockchain technology and explore its potential implications for society. Blockchain technology is rapidly bringing finance, supply chain logistics, voting, and more into the decentralized digital age. We aim to make it as easy to understand as possible, so that everyone can participate. Our members are developers, miners, traders, and just plain enthusiasts. Come join us!

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BrickHack is a multidisciplinary group of students who are passionate about running hackathons. We love the challenge of organizing great events through careful planning, empathy, and a little bit of luck. Every year, we come together to organize several hackathon events for the students of RIT and across northeastern North America. We strive to help our event attendees learn and practice new skills in software development and beyond, and we strive to learn communication, teamwork, and organization skills as a club.

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The mission of BTP shall be to cultivate an environment of business based technical learning outside of the classroom to any student interested. We will provide resources and assistance to all students who wish to enrich their college experience.

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RITDSE is a student club committed to teaching critical thinking through empirical statistical methods. The RITDSE club is dedicated to providing a platform of education, healthy competition, engaging community, and integrated methodology to teach all students about how data informs decisions in the world around them.

The RITDSE opens its doors to all students, as we aim to evangelize and teach empirical data science methods to all. We encourage participation from people of all majors and backgrounds to indulge in our weekly tutorials, live team-based competitions, research, interesting use cases of machine learning, and more.

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Engineering House is a Special Interest House with a focus on an interest in any, and all, forms of engineering. Established in 1971, we have a large range of alumni to support us. We promote team-building and encourage members to work together to accomplish goals. Engineering studies at RIT are demanding, but you will find that you could have a significant advantage by being a member of Engineering House. Members have access to our pool lounge, kitchen, study lounge, and VAX. In the study lounge you will find walls blanketed with white boards, study aids, and easily accessible tutoring. Half of the VAX houses our stadium seating theater with a surround sound and VR system. The other half is dominated by our workshop, in which you will find a 3D printer, hand tools, power tools, and anything else needed to complete your project. Our strong family atmosphere allows us to work together to sponsor events, encourage project completion, and participate in many exclusive activities throughout the year, including movie nights, athletic events, intramural sports, house trips, community service, and much more.

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If you wish to be an on-floor member, you must be an incoming freshman and apply through housing. If you wish to be an off-floor member, you can simply email ehouserecruitment@gmail.com.

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FIRST Robotics provides mentoring to local FIRST teams, volunteers and supports local FIRST events, and works on robotics related projects throughout the academic year.

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Thank you for you interest in RIT FIRST.

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The RIT Formula SAE Racing Team is dedicated to designing, fabricating, testing, developing, racing, and promoting the finest Formula SAE racecar in the world. We will strive to become the most professional, respected, and prestigious team in SAE. We will provide a constructive learning environment that will strengthen new team members by giving them the best hands-on engineering experience. Through our commitment to quality both in the shop and on the track we will better ourselves and our competition. We will accomplish this through teamwork, dedication and effective communication.

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RIT Formula SAE members get valuable real-world experience working on a multi-disciplinary team to produce a tangible product each year. This experience translates into doors opening for the best available co-op and full-time opportunities, as well as a tight network of friends.

Come to our meetings Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8PM in GLE-2360, and Saturdays at 10AM, also in GLE-2360. That's it!

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To drive continued advancements in Neurotechnology, to make computer interaction more efficient, more immersive, and more human, and introduce students to the field of neurotechnology and get them involved.
[this is the progression from the NXT research group]

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RIT's Networking and Systems Administration club. We have Build-it-Nights (BINs) every other week, and host NSIC, RIT's Networking Sysadmin and Infrastructure competition. See https://nexthop.network for more information.

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The purpose of this organization is to foster friendship, knowledge, and innovation - not only among students from the photo science majors - but among all who are interested in learning about the scientific applications of photography and imaging.

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The mission of QICS is to introduce and engage the RIT community in the field of Quantum Computing. As a new and bustling field, Quantum technology has vastly changed how our computers, society, and science will look in the future. Our goal as the Quantum Information and Computing Society is to be at the forefront of this field. We aspire to both discuss new research and also develop our new ideas.

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We are Queer in STEM! We are a club aiming to create a fun, inclusive community for queer students in STEM and perform outreach to other STEM groups and allies. Our club is open to all.

We host small, informal meetings. We typically have a cool activity planned for each meeting (movie night, painting, jeopardy, etc.), and everyone is welcome.

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We have a small Discord community where members can connect with other queer STEM students.

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RIT Autonomous Racing is RIT's entry into the Indy Autonomous Challenge competition being ran by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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The purpose of RIT SPEX is to function as an astronautical engineering student-faculty
research group at Rochester Institute of Technology. Our goal is to introduce students to the
space industry and further their chances at pursuing a career in the industry by giving hands-on project experience. We want to introduce people of all backgrounds to the space industry and provide a welcoming environment.

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To sign up, please email spex.rit@gmail.com expressing interest in the team

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The User Experience Club @ RIT is a group that aims to promote the visibility of User Centered design and research on the RIT campus. We meet weekly during the school year to discuss and try out UX practices, hear from professionals, and to network with like minded individuals.

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We are the Multi-Disciplinary Robotics Club, and aim to teach, create, and manage robotic projects, using skills learned across electrical, mechanical, and software engineering. Our motto is "we build robots", and we work our hardest to bring our design into reality, whether for research or for competition.

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We have lots of tools, materials, and company connections when it comes to building robots, entering competitions, and even finding Co-ops.

Make an account with our Slack Workspace: ritmdrc.slack.com

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The Society of Software Engineers (SSE) is a student organization at RIT composed of software engineers, computer scientists, and other students. We have over fifty active members that participate in mentoring, software projects, intramural sports, and social events. The SSE has strong relationships with companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Northrup Grumman, Goodrich, IBM, and Oracle. We work closely with companies in the software industry to provide our members with potential career opportunities.

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To repair, preserve, and share the forgotten and important devices that made the modern age so future generations have the opportunity to learn from them and enjoy them.

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To provide widespread access to XR experiences and explore technologies of the future.

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WITR Radio is a student run radio station at the Rochester Institute of Technology. We serve the Rochester metropolitan area on FM 89.7MHz and the world at large via our web streams. We are home to nearly 100 individuals who are dedicated to providing a focused variety of emerging music, news segments, and RIT sports coverage to our audience.

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DJing Opportunities
Audio Engineering Experience
Recording Studio Access
Broadcasting Experience
Music Culture Knowledge
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Saltines

Reach out to the WITR Member At Large to get you the password: mal@witr.rit.edu