National Engineering Month (NEM) is all about promoting engineering as an exciting and rewarding discipline. As National Engineering Month progresses, we’ve been busy reaching out to the community in a variety of ways, one of which is by raising money for charity.
One of our NEM events that focused on outreach in the community was CANstruction, which took place 2 weeks ago. A group of dedicated volunteers built a UFO structure entirely out of cans and non-perishable food, which is being donated to the Waterloo Food Bank. This was on display, along with many other can structures, at Conestoga Mall. Unfortunately, the displays have since been taken down, but if you’re interested in seeing any of the structures feel free to check out the CANstruction website!
Pi Day, which took place on March 14 of course, was one of our NEM events as well, and brought together a lot of different people over their mutual love of pi(e). The day consisted of free pie, the option to pie your friends in the face, as well as NEM patch sales. The NEM logo, aka the giant goose wearing a hard hat that is in CPH foyer, has been rather popular lately so we have gotten patches of it made! During the entirety of March, these patches will continue to be on sale in the Orifice, with all proceeds going to charity. After NEM, any remaining patches will be available in Novelties, so be sure to pick one up before they’re all gone! Between donations for pie, and patch sales, Pi Day managed to raise $250 alone!
The charity we have been supporting since the beginning of September is water.org which works to provide clean water solutions in developing parts of the world. Our goal for the Winter 2016 term was to raise $1500 as a society to go towards this cause, on top of the $1500 raised by B-Society in the Fall term. Our directors have been working hard all term on a range of events from Charity Pancakes to Change for Change Week to Pi Day, and our current total is over $1700! Thank you to everyone for helping us surpass our goal! Stay tuned for an update on the final numbers at the end of the term, as there is still time to make our contribution even bigger!
As always, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email vpexternal.a@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca
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It’s really cool to see the events happening as part of NEM being leveraged to raise money for great causes – yet another way to illustrate the way that engineering changes the world around us for the better and impacts quality of life for people around the world. Way to go, U Waterloo EngSoc!