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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear Professor Amitava Datta,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I'm writing on behalf of the University Computer Club to ask for your assistance promoting awareness of our club to students in your class.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Should you be willing to: say a kind word about us, maybe include a slide in a lecture introducing us, or let us steal a few minutes of a lecture to introduce ourselves, we would be most appreciative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are keen to advertise the club to early CS students, as we suspect that many are unaware of what we offer � namely:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- In-clubroom hosting and computer resources, freely available for member use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- A social space, equipped with desktops, that provides an environment to work amongst other like-minded CS students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- A large set of real-world problems and projects from the club which can be used to gain experience contributing to computing projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Additionally, we run a series of semi-regular weekly tech talks over the semester on a variety of computing-related topics (for example, a 3-part *Getting Started with Linux* last semester).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">To try to maximise how helpful we can be for students, we are curious if there are any topics in particular that you think would be useful for 1st/2nd year CS students to explore that aren't covered
in 1st/2nd year courses?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Grace Fowler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UCC Secretary 2021<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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