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About "THE Geek Fest"

This page contains a quick overview of TGF event, it's theme, mission, target markets, demographics, attendees and more.

Introduction

THE Geek Fest is an exciting and eclectic annual celebration of the “geek” in all of us; an event designed to educate the hearts and minds of our students and community by highlighting and celebrating the creative and exciting innovations of new technology, media, and industry. Remember, geek is chic. It is no longer only limited to the technical aspects of life.

Theme

The theme of THE Geek Fest is innovations in technology, in our college, and our community. In addition to showcasing many of CPCC’s programs, technologies, and resources, THE Geek Fest features innovative regional and national businesses and their contributions to new technologies and the hottest fashions and styles. THE Geek Fest highlights cutting edge technologies, hardware, software, gadgets, industries and styles.

Event Goals

This is a brief overview of the goals set fourth for ”The Geek Fest” event. The Geek Fest promotes many CPCC initiatives alongside those of innovative organizations and industry. This year we intend to expand both the exposure and benefits of TGF so that it attracts and keeps a larger public base and serves as a fund raising vehicle for the college. To accomplish this goal we intend to:

Increase internal partnerships and their contributions to the success of The Geek Fest.
Increase contributions of external partners through a variety of capacities including event sponsorships, workshops, keynote speakers and career/job opportunities.
Increase cooperation between students, faculty, staff, organizations, programs, classrooms, departments, divisions, campuses and industry.
Modernize our promotional and marketing efforts through the employment of high impact displays designed. This initiative is being funded by an Innovation Grant and manufactured through joint collaborations with faculty and students from various CPCC programs.
Increase awareness of The Geek Fest through new electronic media outlets such as pod casts, video casts, internet advertising and blogs.
Increase cooperation with partners; Futures Institute, Student Life, Instruction and Distance Learning.
Act as good stewards with new sources of funding provided via Innovation Grant
Bring together diverse and disparate activities from divergent programs and divisions in a harmonious network of cooperation and self help.
To highlight technology as a catalyst for sustainability.

Target Audience

The primary target audience for THE Geek Fest is college students and the campus community. We desire nothing more than to provide a quality exciting learning opportunity for our student body. There are approximately 10,000 of the 56,000+ CPCC students at the Levine campus.

CPCC Student Demographics Quick View

Students: 60,197
Age <21 = 10,129
Age 21-30 = 20,207
Age 31-40 = 13,433
Age 41-50 = 9,706
Age 51+ = 6,722
Gender female = 52.5%
Gender Male = 47.5%

Levine Campus Student Demographics Quick View

Students: 10,684
Age <21 = 2,363
Age 21-30 = 3,293
Age 31-40 = 2 ,027
Age 41-50 = 1,652
Age 51+ = 1,349
Gender female = 49.7%
Gender Male = 50.3%

* Based on 2007-2008 reporting. Additional targeted college and campus data may be available via request if needed.

In addition to the student contribution, there are also great numbers of college faculty, staff, and administratorss who attend and contribute to the event as well. As influential members of the college community, they should certainly not be overlooked. In order to address the “geeky” needs of our faculty/staff, afternoon activities and training sessions are being held that specifically target this audience.

While this event is still relatively new, having run for two consecutive years, we were pleasantly surprised in 2004 and 2005 at the number of public attendees from the local communities and schools. We will continue this trend of community involvement as the initiative grows.

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