VP External Report

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had an enjoyable work term and are excited to be back on campus. I’ll start off with a quick recap of what’s happened in the external world the last few months. I had the pleasure of representing you at ESSCO (Engineering Student Societies Council of Ontario) Presidents Meeting in Sudbury in September, as well as the CFES (Canadian Federation of Engineering Students) Presidents Meeting in Vancouver in October. Both were very beneficial and I was able to learn a lot from other schools. NCWIE (National Conference on Women in Engineering) and the PEO Student Conference followed in November and we had great A-Soc representation at both of these as well – thank you for those of you who applied and attended! Most recently, the CFES Congress took place in Hamilton the first week of the term and I encourage you to read the full feature article on it in this issue. Coming up at the end of the month is the Ontario Engineering Competition which is being hosted by our very own Waterloo campus so keep your eye on the last weekend of January! Good luck to everyone who will be representing us later this month! In other news, ESSCO is going to be putting together a hockey tournament and I would definitely like to enter a team from Waterloo, so keep an ear out for more info on that coming soon! And finally, ESSCO is putting together an event to celebrate National Engineering Month. On February 27, schools across Ontario will be coordinating a Rube Goldberg machine and we need your help! If you are interested in being the main contact for Waterloo, please let me know. That’s all for now! Feel free to stop by the office or email me if you would like to know more about anything I’ve mentioned.