Over the next few weeks, there will be several volunteer opportunities for those looking to get more involved, or for those who just want to come out and participate in a really cool activity. Registration for a lot of these events has already started. Registration deadlines are quickly approaching, since we need to make sure in advance that we have the people required to run the events. So please take a look at the following and volunteer if you can!
Canstruction is a challenge hosted by the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, in which teams compete with the objective of building the most impressive structure out of non-perishable food items. Take a look at www.canstruction.org to get a gist of it. If you think this looks awesome and would like to be part of a UW Engineering team for this event, please read more at http://engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/node/5501.
Explorations is a high-school outreach event where hundreds and hundreds of Grade 6-8 students and their parents will descend upon Waterloo Engineering to see what we’re all about. We are looking for volunteers to be tour guides for the night, who will be responsible for showing the young students around the engineering buildings. Find more info at http://engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/node/5500
Shadow Day is looking for volunteers to take students to class with them on March 9th. This is a high-school outreach event, geared at students in grades 10 to 12 who are about to decide which university they want to attend. The younger students will follow engineering students around to see what a typical day in the life is like. A number of people find taking on a shadow rewarding, since they sometimes see the high-schoolers that shadowed them walking the halls as first years when fall rolls around. More can be found at http://engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/node/5504.
And I’m not going to lie, but all those conference reports I mentioned here and there are still vapourware. They’ll be out eventually, but they are low on the priority list at the moment, since so many other things are cropping up.
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be getting ready to start transitioning your new VP External elect, Yasser Al-Khder. I’m hoping to bring him up to speed on everything that I do before the end of this term so that he can be the best exec that he can be, or something.
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