November Chapter Meeting!!

Our next chapter meeting is this Thursday! We will be meeting in the usual place, Turner 141 at 5:00. We will have two speakers that night. Our first speaker is Kim Zingre from Edwards Architects, she is also an ISU Alumni. Our second speaker is Kaely Cassidy, the Recruitment Chair for this years Illinois State University Relay for Life. We will also be enjoying some delicious Jimmy Johns. Don't miss out!

Mentor/Mentee!!

Are you stressed about classes? Need to talk to someone? Sign up for the IIDA Mentor/Mentee Program! If you have questions with homework, projects, or interior design in general. We have plenty of mentors to help and are willing to answer any questions. Seniors are paired with sophomores and juniors are paired with freshman. For those who could not attend our October meeting or did not sign up before, please email us at IIDA.ISU@gmail.com with your name, email, and what grade level you are in.

Merchandise Mart

Get excited everyone!! We will be taking a trip to the Merchandise Mart on Friday, October 19th! We will be given a tour of the Merchandise Mart by one of the people in the showrooms to tell us what they actually use in their firms. We will also be visiting two design firms in Downtown Chicago as well. It will be an all day trip, so you may have to miss classes. This trip is well worth it! Don't know what the Merchandise Mart is? Let me give you a little information on this fabulous mart.

The Merchandise Mart

Inside the Mart

Inside the Mart

 

 

 

 

 

The Merchandise Mart is located on the Banks of the Chicago River, in downtown Chicago. It is the worlds largest commercial building and wholesale design center. The Merchandise Mart spans two city blocks and is 25 stories high! The Merchandise Mart welcomes 38,500 people each business day and nearly 10 million people each year. The Mart has11 floors of permanent showrooms for gift, home, outdoor and commercial furnishings and 15 major trade and consumer shows as well as hundreds of meetings and special events. The Merchandise Mart became the world's largest LEED^®-EB certified building in November 2007. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental and Design and is the nationally accepted benchmark for design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings and is awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.

This is definitely a trip that any future designer should take advantage of! Hope to see you all there for a day full of design, useful information and fun!

For more information visit the Merchandise Mart website!!

*Information taken from the Merchandise Mart website.

Getting Hungry?

Our Meatheads fundraiser is in just three days! Stop in for a juicy burger and Meatheads will donate 10% of every purchase to our chapter! Need a good way to convince all of your friends to join you for some burgers? Hide all of their food so they can't eat, then they will be starving for some Meatheads! 

 Don't forget to bring in a flyer! 

(Don't actually steal your friend's food, that isn't nice!)

Chapter Meeting!

Don't forget, we have a chapter meeting Thursday, October 4th! We will be meeting in Turner 141 at 5pm! 

If you bought one of our fabulous t-shirts or bags then make 

sure you come because we will be handing them out!! 

We also have Ryan Morton, a territory sales manager from 

Shaw Contract in Bloomington, coming to speak with us on Thursday. 

Want to get involved in some of our activities? 

We will be having sign up sheets for the following events at the meeting 

on Thursday. There will be more information for the events at the meeting.

• Homecoming Float - Walk in the Groovy parade with us dressed in 70's attire! 

                                                                   

•  Bar crawl - 21 and older only! Will will be joining the Construction Management Majors and enjoying a night in down town Bloomington!  

•  Festival of Trees - This is a great way to volunteer for a good cause! Help us decorate for the show and benefit The Baby Fold. To learn more about what The Baby Fold does, visit www.thebabyfold.org

                                                          

•  Mentor-Mentee - If you are a Freshman or Sophomore then this is a great opportunity for you! Sign up and you will be paired with either a Junior or Senior in the IED program. This will give you the chance to get to know one another and have someone to turn to when you have questions about a project or something related to out major! 

•  Pumpkin Painting - Its that time of year, Fall is here! What a great time to hold a fundraiser for our wonderful organization! We will be painting pumpkins and selling them to raise money! We could use all your help to put an artistic twist on a fall tradition!

                                                            
*We will only be serving candy at the meeting since you all need to save up your apatite to attend our Meatheads fundraiser Thursday!