{"id":33630,"date":"2008-11-20T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/two-groups-twel"},"modified":"2008-11-20T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T17:23:54","slug":"two-groups-twel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/11\/two-groups-twel.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Groups, Twelve Students, Four Kids, and a Cyclotron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/p1010896.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"P1010896\" height=\"75\" alt=\"P1010896\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/p1010896.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Earlier this month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=196\">Eastern Michigan SolidWorks User Group<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=350\">West Michigan SolidWorks User Group<\/a> held a joint meeting at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nscl.msu.edu\/\">National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory<\/a> at Michigan State University.&nbsp; The meeting was attended by nearly 70 people &#8211; SolidWorks Users, Students, Faculty, and even a few kids aged 8, 10, 12, and 17.&nbsp; I had to ask EMSWUG Group Leader Dan Bovinich&#8230;was it because some parents couldn&#8217;t find a sitter?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out these particular parents really just wanted their children to share in the Cyclotron tour.&nbsp; I can see why &#8211; NSCL has a terrific program designed just for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nscl.msu.edu\/teachersstudents\">K-12<\/a> grade students and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of effort went into the planning and scheduling of this meeting.&nbsp; Congratulations to Dan and Jason Raak for pulling the whole thing together.&nbsp; Dan also credits Gary Lowell, David Darbyshire, and Darin Grossier of DASI, along with John Olivia of NSCL for helping out.&nbsp; Food, clean-up, and car-pooling duties were handled by Michael Beem, Jared Laba, and Dan Bartlett.<\/p>\n<p>The Cyclotron might have been the star, but a young student named Zach really stole the show.&nbsp; Dan tells me that he had everyone laughing during his 45 minute presentation, and it was the best Cyclotron presentation he has ever heard.&nbsp; Sounds like we have an up-and-coming SolidWorks superstar in the making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the Eastern Michigan SolidWorks User Group and the West Michigan SolidWorks User Group held a joint meeting at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.&nbsp; The meeting was attended by nearly 70 people &#8211; SolidWorks<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2008\/11\/two-groups-twel.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}