Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers

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Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers

Abbreviation	CATTG
Formation	2006-02-09
Type	INGO
Headquarters	World Wide Web
Membership	College Clubs
Executive Director	Mike Roselli
Website	CATTG

The CATTG Philanthropy Program
Key people	Mike Roselli
Focus	Philanthropy
Method	Fund Raising, Volunteering
Slogan	Because everyone deserves a chance to play

The Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers, or "CATTG", is an international college-student run organization for table top gaming, including paper and pencil RPG's, collectible card games, and board games of all shapes and sizes. There are currently nine official chapters, all of which run themselves individually, but collaborate to keep the network strong.

1 Requirements
2 History
3 Benefits
4 Programs
5 Events
6 Colleges
7 References

[edit] Requirements

There are no financial requirements at this time. All university gaming clubs are eligible to join, provided they are a registered club at their school and they have a constitution. One of the club's primary interests must be table top games, though they are encouraged to include other interests as they see fit.

Each club must have a Board Member, to provide equal representation for the organization. This position is defaulted to the club president, however, he or she may appoint someone else for the task. The Board Member votes to decide organization matters. All other operatations are run on a chapter-by-chapter basis. While one chapter can look to another for assistance, each club is it's own, independent organization that uses CATTG as a college-gaming networking tool, and can remove itself from it at any time.

For more information on requirements, prospective chapters are invited to read the document Becoming a Chapter.^[1]

[edit] History

On November 21, 2003, the Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers was started as a club at Fort Hays State University, Kansas and it was approved by the Student Government Association. In 2005, Mike Roselli (NCSU) contacted former President Logan Bonner (FHSU) and after a series of emails, a new CATTG Chapter was ready to be instituted. On February 9th, 2006, the organization grew to a national level when the second CATTG chapter was founded at North Carolina State University. The rest of the chapters have followed in their numerical order.

[edit] Benefits

The organization provides opportunities for experiences in non-profit leadership and philanthropy that can easily be added to any resume, including those that will be sent out in job applications when students graduate from college.

The following is a list of resources that the Board of Directors has put together over the years for it's chapters, should they wish them:

A sub domain that corresponds to your school
A cattg.org email address with six gigs of space.
Access to CATTG-Google linked services through its Google Apps account.
Forums, both public and private.
Free materials from sponsors when available.
Communication and assistance from our other clubs.
The opportunity to be part of a larger gaming community.^[2]

[edit] Programs

CATTG runs a few programs nationally. One of these is the Scholarship Program, which makes an effort to link student gamers with potential scholarships relating to table top games.^[3]

The Philanthropy Program is an effort to contribute to the gaming community by encouraging the chapters to create and work on philanthropic projects in the field of table top gaming. These activities are rewarded by help from our sponsors. Activities can be created by chapters, submitted by sponsors, or requested by charities and causes. Each activity is measured in man-hours or dollars-donated. An up to date list of statistics for this program is available on the website.^[4]

In support of the Philanthropy and Scholarship Programs, the Sponsor Program was born. Through this program, CATTG wishes to network with companies in the field of gaming, keep good communications with these companies to share information about the organization and the programs, and gain chapters materials for their contributions through the Philanthropy Program.^[5]

[edit] Events

The Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers will be making an appearance at the Gen Con Indy Conference 2008. Students from each club are having their passes reimbursed for working with the volunteer program. There will be a presentation to the gaming community on the Saturday of the conference.

There is a CATTG-Con in the works. Chapters are currently putting the logistics together for this event. The current plan sets the event date circa May, 2010.