Oh, hello fellow engineering students, I didn’t see you there! I was having too much fun at all of the fantabulous events that happened recently! On the long weekend instead of cottaging, canoeing or canoodling, many dedicated engineering students volunteered their time at the Pride Parade and the Kids’ Olympics for Canada Day!
We had around 25 engineering students and supporters march along with the Federation of Students in the Toronto Pride Parade accompanied by our glorious mascot, the Tool. The Toolbearers were out in a full rainbow to show their support for the benefits of diversity in life and engineering. If you missed the parade this year, don’t fret, we will be marching again next year, bigger and better than ever! The very next day, as hundreds of families poured into CIF for Canada Day Celebrations, many bright faced engineering students started setting up bubble blowing stations, ring toss, bean bag throwing, and water slide stations for the Kids’ Olympics event. Our two amazing first year directors Jenn and Anson along with all the volunteers entertained the children of Waterloo till the late hours of the afternoon.
If all of these events seem awesome and you either wish you had come to them or did and had a great time, then you should just head on over to the EngSoc website and apply to be the OUTREACH COMMISSIONER for the Winter 2014 term! The Outreach Commissioner is responsible for helping all of the directors for the outreach events in the winter term and making sure that the events run smoothly and the directors have all the support they need! Just to give an overview of the events in the winter term we have CANstruction (build a super duper large structure out of cans), Bus Push (pull a super duper large bus through Waterloo), Rube Goldberg project (build a super duper large provincial wide Rube Goldberg) and many other super duper large projects. This commissioner gets the chance, along with a team of directors and myself, to show that engineers care and want to give back to the community.
If being a commissioner is not your thing or you aren’t sure you want that much responsibility we also have DIRECTORSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN!!! That means you can take on one of our super duper large projects or one of our littler, but just as fun, directorships! New for the winter term we have a Waterloo Park spring clean-up directorship, a Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) relations director to work with the PEO on increasing our involvement in the chapter and of course fantastic charities directors! There is something for everyone, so if you are looking to get involved and make a difference consider applying for one of these fantastic opportunities!
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