Hello 2012!

Here are the top five finalists for the Ivy Stone Design competition!  Vote for your favorite using the Google Form sent to your Penn email address.  The voting period will close on Wednesday 3/4 at 11:59pm.

1) Catherine Tien

2) Sherry Epstein

3) Lizi Marks

4) Jillian Fleischer

5) Kaitlyn Reese

Thanks!

-2012 Class Board

The Penn Club
proudly presents

Moving to New York Information Session

Moving to New York?
Not sure what to expect?
Need to find an apartment but don’t know how?

Join us for an hour long session with a Penn alumna, who is a trusted broker from Spire Group. The session will cover a brief overview of the different neighborhoods of Manhattan, public transportation systems, what to expect after you move and The Penn Club. A Penn Club member who is a New York City broker will explain how to find, pay for and rent an apartment in Manhattan. There will be a Q&A session to follow so come prepared with any questions you may have about how to live and rent in the Big Apple.

When: Wednesday March 28th, 4:30pm OR 6pm (both sessions will be about 1 hour and cover the same material)
Where: John M Huntsman Hall Room F85
Cost: FREE
How to attend: RSVP in advance at www.pennclub.org/gonyc.html<http://www.pennclub.org/gonyc.html>

Don’t worry about taking notes; we’ll email the entire presentation to you after the event!

Brought to you by

[cid:image001.jpg@01CCFB93.758D4AA0]
The Penn Club
NYC Landmark
Top 10 Best City Club in USA
#1 City Club in New York City
www.pennclub.org<http://www.pennclub.org>

Connect with Real Movers and Quakers

Questions? Call 212-403-6627 or email Regina Jaslow, W’97 atmembership@pennclubny.org<mailto:membership@pennclubny.org>

We collected 2 full Harrison moving bins with food to donate to SREHUP (Student Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia) and moved 5 tons of logs, sticks, and debris at Morris Park.  Thanks everyone!

The infamous month for SENIORS is here…

Feb Club Introductory Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWhX9KCtJQ&feature=youtu.be

Event List

The following is a brief description of every night’s events for February.

Wednesday, February 1 - THE FIRST TOAST: Pyramid Club, 9 – 11 PM

Thursday, February 2 - Vango Lounge & Skybar, 10 PM – Midnight
Friday, February 3 - Dave & Buster’s, 9 – 11 PM
Saturday, February 4 - Dock Street Brewery, 2-4 PM
Sunday, February 5 - Superbowl Pregame @ Blarney, 2 – 4 PM
Monday, February 6 - McGillin’s Olde Ale House, 7 – 9 PM
Tuesday, February 7 - Live Music @ World Cafe Live, 5 – 7 PM
Wednesday, February 8 - Distrito, 6 – 8 PM
Thursday, February 9 - Philadelphia Orchestra, 8 – 10 PM
Friday, February 10 - Penn vs. Harvard Basketball, 7 – 10 PM
Saturday, February 11 - Vagina Monologues, 8 – 10 PM
Sunday, February 12 - Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2 – 4 PM
Monday, February 13 - Drinker’s West, 9 – 11 PM
Tuesday, February 14 - Love Letter Mural Tour, 1 – 2 PM
Wednesday, February 15 - Yards Brewery, 7 – 10 PM
Thursday, February 16 - Mask & Wig, 8 – 10 PM
Friday, February 17 - Philadelphia 76ers vs. Dallas Mavericks, 7 – 10 PM
Saturday, February 18 - RiverRink @ Penn’s Landing, 3 – 5:30 PM
Sunday, February 19 - Community Service Day, 12 – 2:30 PM
Monday, February 20 - President’s Day Party @ City Tap House, 9 – 11 PM
Tuesday, February 21 - Cavanaugh’s, 9 – 11 PM
Wednesday, February 22 - Historic Philadelphia, 2 – 5 PM
Thursday, February 23 - Bingo @ Frankford Hall, 9 – 11 PM
Friday, February 24 - Reading Terminal Market, 2 – 4 PM
Saturday, February 25 - Sansom Pub Crawl, 8 PM – Midnight
Sunday, February 26 - Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, 12 – 3:30 PM
Monday, February 27 - Millcreek Monday, 8 – 10 PM
Tuesday, February 28 - THE PENNULTIMATE: Water Works Restaurant, 8 – 10 PM
Wednesday, February 29 - THE FINALE: Smokey Joe’s Sink or Swim, 9 PM – Midnight

A Google Calendar with all events can be found HERE. Click the small button in the bottom right to sync with your personal calendar.

Feb Club Points (and how to get them)

There are two ways to participate in Feb Club every day:

1) Attend the event of the day (100 points per event stamp)

2) Facebook (10 points per activity)

- STATUS UPDATE: Write a status update about Feb Club and tag the “UPenn FebClub” profile in your status.

- EVENT TAG: Tag the current day’s Feb Club event page in your status.

- CHECK-IN: Check-in to an event location and tag “UPenn FebClub” as an attendee.

Rules for points:

1) Each point value can only be earned once per day (for a total of 130 possible points per day).

2) The opportunity to win Facebook points for a given day will end at midnight of that day.

3) Any Facebook activity must appear on the “UPenn FebClub” profile page in order to earn points for it.

4) Senior Class Board reserves the right to take action against any inappropriate Facebook activity on any Feb Club-related pages..

The Feb Club cards have been generously donated by The Penn Club http://www.pennclub.org/.

What you can do right now: Go on Facebook and friend request the “UPenn FebClub” profile.

Feb Club Prizes

Your participation in Feb Club will be rewarded with a variety of prizes.

Prize List:

500+ points: Sunglasses.

1000+ points: Keychain + Sunglasses
1500+ points: Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
2000+ points: Hat + Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
2500+ points: Flask + Hat + Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
3000+ points: Sweatshirt + Flask + Hat + Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
Attending all 29 events (regardless of points): Name on a plaque at Smoke’s + everything above.

As always, if you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact one of us.

Looking forward to an incredible month,

– Your 2012 Class Board —

www.penn12.com

Winners of Global Entrepreneurship Week, MTV, & NYSE Movers & Changers Competition

Recognized by CNBC and Mark Cuban

Sushanth and Karishma founded SkillHub this past summer just after they interned at Google. They both saw a need for an online platform to enable users of all backgrounds to share skills and knowledge. SkillHub, which is currently in alpha phase, is a disruptive platform that aims to bridge traditional knowledge disparities as well as enable the sharing of skills with “micro-lessons.”

Sushanth and Karishma applied on a whim to Movers & Changers and are incredibly grateful to have secured $25K in seed funding. After the exhilarating experience of ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange alongside Mark Cuban and receiving his mentorship, Karishma and Sushanth are looking forward to testing the first version of SkillHub in the Penn community before iterating and scaling.

Besides SkillHub, Karishma is Co-President of the Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and Captain of the Penn Raas team, pursuing a degree in Economics and Math. Sushanth has served on the Boards of Alternative Spring Break and Penn Society for International Development and is pursuing a degree in Physics and Math.

Seniors,

Jesse is a senior Operations and Information Management major. He has interned with This Is That Corporation, the indie film production company that put out “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “21 Grams,” and “Adventureland.” He has also interned with JP Morgan’s Private Bank. At Penn he started the Jewish Film Society, but his Hillel contact was let go due to budget cuts and his club perished. He is also a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and plays in the band Rail 3 – maybe you’ve seen their posters, maybe you haven’t. Jesse typically wears graphic tees (like his “Little Lebowski Urban Achievers” shirt) and often sports his red “Life Aquatic” beanie.

He is currently working on a film project with his brother Zachary. They wrote a script called “Elijah the Prophet,” and it beat out over 500 other submissions to win first place at the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition. Together, they have been assembling a team and raising money to bring their vision to the big screen. They have assembled an all-star cast including an actor from HBO’s “The Wire,” a cinematographer who worked on “Degrassi,” and a producer who has put together films with budgets around $15-20 million and has worked with Jessica Biel, Milla Jovovich, and Forest Whitaker. Below is a link to their Kickstarter page – an online forum that helps independent artists, like Jesse, fund their project. They are about one third funded and, with a wink, he added that they offer cool prizes for donating money to the project.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1312644311/elijah-the-prophet – Kickstarter page
http://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/2ej24e4j – to vote for their project on indieWire (before 10/31 at 10am)

Jesse can be reached at hjesse@wharton.upenn.edu.

Born and raised in Monaco, Guillaume decided to come to the United States to study Finance and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Creating his own startup is something that he always wanted to achieve. This is one of the reasons why he decided to come the US which he sees as the Eldorado of entrepreneurship. He believes it is the only place where students can get taken seriously and encouraged when building their own business at a very young age. The result: Famocracy.

Guillaume Hajek thinks Famocracy is filling a void: epic successes such as American Idol, America’s Got Talent, America’s Best Dance Crew, or the X-Factor, have not been replicated online. Until now.

Two Penn students, Guillaume Hajek and Edward Lando (’14) have created Famocracy.com, a platform that allows people to become famous for their talents. Many Penn groups and artists have joined, so go ahead! Share your talent, and support your fellow Quakers by voting for them on Famocracy! You’re the judge and their gateway to their fame.

It’s time to officiate our SENIOR status on Penn campus and have it known to the rest of the school…

SENIORS 2012 T-SHIRTS!

on Sale M-F this week, 12-2 PM

@ Houston Hall 2nd Floor (outside Office of Student Affairs)

$10 each. Available in both regular and V-neck!

And V-necks for girls…

And of course, the shirt reps 2012 on the back:

Much love,

Your 2012 Class Board

If you are part of the great Class of 2012, then you are probably just as  baffled as I am at where the past three years have flown. Time has        been moving incredibly fast over our collegiate careers and this year    will undoubtedly zoom by faster than ever. It’s because of this that I    strongly emphasize taking as much advantage of this final year at  Penn as possible. Penn, college, and the school environment we are   in now will all be over before we know it.

Check out some new clubs for this year, trying out activities you would  have never thought of doing before. Or, heck, make your own club –  after all, once you’ve landed that job/grad school/research grant/etc,  what are you going to do with that new free time? If you’re trying to l  learn outside of classes, there are some great preceptorials you should check out on PennPortal. Maybe your more interested in seeing what your fellow peers have been up to in their respective involvements. Hit up as many sporting games (in the process, check out the new Penn Park!), performing arts events, and other campus on-goings as possible. With so many things going on all the time, there’s no excuse to ever find yourself bored this year.

In addition to pursuing more on-campus events, definitely take advantage of the everything Philadelphia has to offer this year. If you’re into the arts then definitely check out a Symphony or the Philadelphia Film Festival this year. If you’re a sports fan, there’s no better time to be rooting on the Phillies. Most of you are 21 now, so why not check out the Sugar House Casino some night? And let’s not forget the endless dining adventures to be had in the City of Brotherly Love.

All in all, really push yourself to make the most of this year. It will probably be, for most of us, the last opportunity to freely explore and learn without being constrained by work, family, and other obligations. We as the Senior Class Board are working to do as much as possible to maximize your ultimate college year experience and hope you really do maximize this year. Get amped, 2012!

Best,

Jibran Khan

President, University of Pennsylvania Class of 2012