theCAT and Braindump News

BarCamps are conferences where attendees have an active role in deciding what the topics for sessions will be by volunteering to lead sessions. The location and time-slots for sessions are [...]

Since its inception. the Braindump has never had a firm sense of closure. We would keep going until we ran out of things to talk about. At the one year [...]

After the induction event on Friday, October 16th, the 23rd year of the CAT Braindump is now in session. 80+ new CATs have volunteered to come on board. We will [...]

A very special Braindump happened last week as a number of first generation CATs from 1992 (and some pre-CATs from before that) returned to PSU for a panel discussion. Three [...]

The CAT has an internal video production group called the Videocats. They shoot/edit/deliver Braindump oriented material in addition to various other projects that include MCECS online orientation videos and other [...]

The 2013 Braindump Orientation and Induction took place October 11th and 18. Attendance reached 125 students for Orientation and a cozier 118 for Induction night. The new CATs were welcomed [...]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 our very own Colleen Murphy and alumni Spencer Krum will be speaking in Puppet Camp Portland at the McMenamins Mission Theater. Colleen’s session Writing and [...]

…I found something inside myself that I didn’t know was there. I was working harder and learning more than I ever had before. I was being more responsible in other [...]

The orientation last week broke previous attendance records, clocking in at 124 newcomers. Those who attended learned about what the Braindump is, and heard from current and previous CATs about [...]

Hot off the heels of a successful Braindump orientation, CATs from the current and previous Braindumps woke early the next morning to head to Corvallis [...]