I can’t believe that we are already into the final weeks of the term. A lot has happened in the last few weeks on the external front and there are a few more things to come.
Our last large scale National Engineering Month (NEM) event, held at The Museum in Kitchener, was a great success. Both volunteers and students had a good time making K’nex structures and talking about Engineering. Agnes and Lindsay did a great job pulling off all of the wonderful NEM stuff we did this year. Continuing the NEM programming, the final video of the Ontario-wide Rube Goldberg device is now available on ESSCOntario Youtube channel. To launch that video, ESSCO and OSPE held an unveiling event at the CN tower where the last part of the machine was showcased, eventually lighting the tower purple. Two first year students, Leila and Kevin were in attendance to represent Waterloo at the event. You can read more about this in their article on page ##.
One of the other major events that we have been working on for the past few weeks has come to an end in the form of “Getting a Jump on Hunger”, the Waterloo Engineering team’s entry into the Canstruction event. Approximately 20 people, lead by Bruce Keeling in 2014 Civil helped in planning and building our structure. There is a photo below, but in case you can’t tell, it is a Tuna fish jumping out of a tuna can. Everyone was very proud with how it turned out and it was exciting to see a bunch of new faces helping out with all these outreach events.
March Break was in full swing last week and as a result outreach opportunities were everywhere. The Explorations directors did a great job of arranging volunteers and ensuring that everything ran smoothly and efficiently as well as putting in countless hours organizing the volunteers. The annual March Break Open House did not have an official presence by EngSoc but thank you to all of the student volunteers who did their part in making sure Waterloo continues to attract the very best.
Lastly, the Canadian Engineering Competition was held recently and I am pleased to announce that Erin Matheson came third in Communications and a fourth year Electrical group took home third in innovative design. Thanks to Angelo Alaimo for running WEC and taking care of the logistics for these events.
Coming up in the next little while is an ESSCO council meeting as well as the beginning of the end of term wrap up for all of my directors. I have a few very exciting blog posts in the wings so please follow that for some more details.
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