Got the Midterm Blues? Apply for Sponsorship!

I don’t have too much to talk about this week, what with Hell Week and then Reading Week. If you find yourself with nothing to do or want to have nothing to do, you should apply for EngSoc Sponsorship! Any group or team interested in receiving EngSoc sponsorship is invited to put together a proposal/presentation and submit it by Friday March 1, at 11:59:59 PM. Any and all University of Waterloo student teams or groups are eligible for an EngSoc sponsorship. If your presentation contains all of the information you want to submit, feel free to submit that as your proposal. Proposals should contain the details listed below, however please be aware that you are not required to disclose this information if you don’t wish to. Just know that the more information you can provide to us on why you need our sponsorship, the better chance you have to receive it. Suggested details are, but are not limited to:

• the team/group name
• contact information (including an email)
• a detailed price breakdown of what the Sponsorship, if given, will be spent on
• a summary of no more than 1000 words explaining how your team/group benefits Engineering students and why you deserve EngSoc sponsorship
• the length of your current project cycle, if applicable
• the average operating budget of a project cycle (if not applicable, then of the last year/three terms of operation)
• the number of other sponsors normally obtained in a project cycle (or one year) and the percentage of your operating budget that these sponsors provide
• are you applying for other sponsorships this term, and from who (eg. WEEF, SLEF, etc.)

You will be expected to make a short presentation at the Sponsorship meeting with your proposal details and answer any questions the Committee may have for you. This term’s Sponsorship meeting has been set for Sunday, March 3, at 11:00 AM, room TBD. Once the room is booked it will be added to the EngSoc calendar, I’ll include it in the subsequent IW issue, and I’ll email any teams/groups that have already submitted a proposal. We look forward to hearing from you!

I’d also like to take the opportunity to congratulate the class of 2013 on getting their Iron Rings a couple weeks ago. By the time the next IW issue comes out I expect all of you to be able to http://alturl.com/3qv8z

Also keep your eyes open for new items in Novelties this term. Mina Labib and I have been working hard to give Novelties a facelift and we will hopefully have lots of new things for sale soon. If you have any ideas for EngSoc Swag, tshirt designs, or just something really cool you think people would buy, send me an email at vpfinance.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca