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INAUGRATION EVENT 2026
# AWS Student Builders Group – Inauguration Event
Join us for the official inauguration of the AWS Student Builders Group at our campus!
This event marks the beginning of a new tech community focused on cloud computing, AWS technologies, innovation, and student collaboration. During the session, we will introduce the club, our core team members, and our vision for upcoming workshops, events, and opportunities.
Our Faculty Advisor will also address the students and share insights about the importance of cloud technologies in today’s industry.
## What You’ll Learn
* Introduction to AWS Student Builders Group
* Basics of Cloud Computing & AWS
* Upcoming plans, workshops, and community activities
* Opportunities for students in cloud and tech domains
## Special Interaction
We will also connect with student leaders and community members from different states through an online meet session, where they will share their experiences and insights with attendees.
## Event Format
Hybrid Event
* Offline: College Campus
* Online: Guest interaction through virtual meeting
Whether you are a beginner or already interested in cloud technologies, this event is a great opportunity to connect, learn, and grow with the community.
📅 Date: 2nd July
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM
📍 Venue: Oriental College of Technology
We look forward to welcoming you to the community!
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Alum Creek Trail Hike
Join us for a 2.4 mile hike along the Alum Creek Trail south from Casto park to Strawberry Farms park and back. This is a fully paved flat trail along Alum Creek. Come and enjoy a great hike with us!
Stop Guessing: How to Measure and Improve LLM Outputs
Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it “seems good,” and move on.
That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable.
In this talk, we’ll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. We’ll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork.
This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it.
We’ll cover:
* Why “it looks good” is not enough
* How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints
* How to compare LLM outputs more systematically
* Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness
* How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results
* Where automated evaluation works — and where humans still need to stay in the loop
By the end, you’ll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve.
LOGISTICS AND PARKING:
The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks!
The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.
Cocoaheads
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IxDA Chat n Pancakes
You can sleep in on the Sesquicentennial (observed), we’re shifting to the following Friday.
But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why I’d even want to.
Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.
Columbus PHP: Monthly Meetup
Our monthly PHP meetup.
A virtual shindig courtesy of Zoom. Check back here for the details around 6:15 pm









