Happy belated Canada Day! I’m having a great weekend and enjoying a nice barbecue as of this writing. Hopefully all is going well with all of you as well.
Over the last weekend of June, I was in Ottawa for the Engineering Student Societies’ Council of Ontario’s Annual General Meeting. This is a great conference and I highly encourage anyone interested to apply for it next summer. There was a presentation on entrepreneurial business planning by the former president of MedEng Systems, Richard L’Abbé. MedEng Systems, now owned by Allen Vanguard, created the bomb proof suit showcased in the movie The Hurt Locker. As well, we had the pleasure to listen to Drew Dudley speak. Drew Dudley is the Leadership Coordinator at the University of Toronto, and he is a great inspirational speaker. He also spoke at the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students annual congress back in January, but hearing him again was a great treat.
There was also a lot of formal business discussion that took place at ESSCO AGM, such as electing the next group of executives for the organization and deciding the organization’s direction for the next year. I am pleased to announce that Alessia Danelon has been elected as the new president of ESSCO, and Cameron Winterink from A-Soc has been elected as the new VP, Development. As well, the idea of an inter-university engineering newspaper exchange is moving forward and we should be seeing something on that front soon. ESSCO will be working to set up a mailing list to distribute to schools that are interested in sharing papers. As well, they will be looking into the possibility of setting up a database for engineering newspapers to share articles with each other to be published in their own respective papers.
Now changing directions, let’s talk about the upcoming Waterloo Engineering Competition (WEC). WEC registration is now closed, thanks to all who registered. If you didn’t manage to get a team together in time but would still like to see the event, you could consider volunteering for the event. I still need several volunteers to help out so email me at bsoc_vpext@engmail.uwaterloo.ca and l’ll be in touch. Also fire me off an email if you did sign up and haven’t heard from the WEC organizing committee yet. The competition’s just coming up in a few days so those competing should get ready. It’s gonna be a killer event.
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