Usually meeting on a Tuesday or Thursday evening, TNT is an occasional and unofficial gathering of young blood to organize activities for new and young alumni in the Cornell Club of Washington.. With some of Maggie's help, our new talent can meet and collaborate with others in the club on the activities that most interest them. It might help network and lead to leadership within CCW. See Committees.
Invited: Esra, Sneha, Evan, JJ, Siobhan, Corey, Ayotunde, Akshay, Kassandra, Nakul, Kaila, Aheed, Alex, Alexandra, Angela, Ezinwa, Nikunj:
Responses: YES: Corey, Yi, Ayotunde, Siobhan, Sneha, Esra, Kaila,
NO: Alexandra, JJ
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 6:30 pm
6:30 pm is when business with our laptops begins. Arrive earlier if you want to order a drink or food from a nearby food stall and socialize with others. Maggie will try to get there early to make our location easy to find by means of Big Red stuff. Maggie expects 4-9 attendees and knows that this group is going to LOVE getting to know one another! Don't be shy when you arrive. People are coming to partner up and share the workload to put on an event. Start networking and floating ideas of events of interest for your planning.
Location: UPSIDE ON MOORE, 1700 N. Moore Street, Level M2, Arlington is a food court a couple of flights up from the Rosslyn Metro Station (blue and orange lines.) The easy entrance is on Wilson Blvd. Go up a flight and proceed to the end of the hallway to find the bar. Our meeting with our laptops and calendars will take place close to that bar.
Finding us: the food court has one fancy bar just shy of the exit onto the open air terrace. We are not making a reservation, but will mention our gathering to the bartenders. We will PROBABLY NOT be on the terrace side of the bar. A better place is found if you look at the opposite side of the bar where there is a room and a lot of tables. If there is no use of that venue space, that's where you can find the Big Red Labeled table. Second choice: we will locate ourselves at a tble between the bar and the terrace.
Consider what kind a events you'd most like to organize for young alumni and new members of CCW. (Many are new arrivals to the DMV who are looking to meet Cornellians.) There are many ideas to peruse at these personal pages of Maggie's web site for collaboration so look across the menu above.
I've heard additional ideas come from the people of this group where we might get fast lift-off:
women's soccer match (Kaila?)
simulated sky diving at iFly - use this page and inquire about making it an educational field trip. Try for a really good group rate. Might have to organize carpooling to get there. (Evan?)
Community Service project: park clean-up, or prep meals at DC Central Kitchen (Sneha?)
Join Freshman Send Off committee - (ask Ayotunde more)
The next Art Gallery Tour (Portrait Gallery or one of these.)
Monday night Bingo (Corey?)
paddle boats at Tidal Basin (split costs throughout the hour by taking turns "speed dating" style (Maggie has info)
picnic and Ultimate Frisbee at the National Mall (maybe include the paddlle boats) (Yi?)
Cornhole tournament, beers and lunch at Columbia Island Marina (Maggie)
go-carts
networking around an occupational THEME like AI (Aheed)
next Running Club date such as RUNNING / Walking at Rock Creek Park (Siobhan)
A small scale 5K running race / walk in Falls Church (can hype it up with medals and swag at Maggie's house) (Maggie)
Book talk about POVERTY BY AMERICA (Angela or Maggie)
ToastMasters (Evan)
Go to the Lawless Forge and make a BBQ fork out of wrought iron (Maggie)
bowling
Visit Anapolis or Frederick
Outdoor Movie (maybe Alexandra)
Click through the CCW Calendar -- so you can see some events that have been tried in the past-- learning, social, community service, sports viewing... But let's think outside the box!
Notice and apply the checkllist Maggie developed for writing event invitations. It's a long but thorough list and has exemplary postings linked. You can apply it to make sure your event posting that you send to VP/Programmming is complete on the first send... and anticipates any hiccups to conducting it. It is NOT possible to edit and change postings very quickly at CCW; you have to use a middleman and that volunteer needs a lot of notice. The platform sometimes lags HOURS before an email is sent off of in in a queue at the platform... our web pages don't always instantly update. There can be an HOURS LONG WAIT.
Note that you need not have Maggie's support to work with our VP(s) of Programming within CCW . Read this page. Do not share Maggie's personal web pages here with anyone except your planning partner; it can cause communications problems for our membership and the volunteers planning. She is not on the Programming Committee-- just facilitates process of planning and posting events for CCW based on her own long experience doing so.