Hey everyone!
Kieran, your VP External, here with my first Iron Warrior update. I’ll be giving you an idea of what my job is and how I plan on doing it.
As the term opens up I’m spending all my time out of the city at conferences but I promise I am still around sometimes. Our Engineering Society is a member of the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES), as well as the Engineering Student Societies’ Council of Ontario (ESSCO). We go to about 7 conferences each year for purposes like exchanging best practices, professional development, and so on. As VP Ex my job is to represent Waterloo within both of these organizations, so I spent the last two weekends at the President’s Meetings of each.
ESSCO and CFES have lots of opportunities for you to get involved, including conferences! Keep an eye out for applications for the Professional Engineers of Ontario Student Conference, details can be found on essco.ca. FIRST YEARS: Check out the First Year Integration Conference coming up in February! This term I am pushing to do more events with other engineering societies, including a patch exchange and a visit to some other schools’ events.
The second main portion of my responsibilities is outreach, including charities. Over the summer the student body voted for water.org to be our charity for the year, so our lovely charities directors throughout these three terms will be raising money for that cause! One regular charity initiative is selling grilled cheese at lunch, so come by and grab some on Tuesdays! One thing I’ve added to the outreach portfolio is group trips to the blood drive. We also have Education Outreach, which means we go do science experiments with kids at THEMUSEUM to get them interested in STEM.
I’d love to hear any feedback, questions, or ideas you have about what I’m doing this term. Feel free to shoot me an email at vpexternal.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca or come by our office at CPH 1327!
See you soon!
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