Engineering a Community

Hey everyone,

Second update from the VP External in town! Everything is carrying on as usual, we’re keeping busy. Today I’d like to focus my article on how EngSoc interacts with the community around us since engineers often get an unfortunate and untrue reputation of ignoring everything outside each other.

For starters, our charities initiatives. This term we have four lovely charities directors: Hannah, Jon, Ramneet and Megan. They work hard to make grilled cheese and run events to raise money for Water.org, an organization that raises money to provide clean water to those without it. You can find out more information about it at www.water.org, or by emailing hannah.van.opstal@gmail.com. You can always come to the EngSoc office and donate, or come by CPH on Tuesdays at 11:30 to buy some grilled cheese!

A big outreach event that we do every term is our day the THEMUSEUM. Our Education Outreach directors, Nina, Jessica, Rohan and Iris are working hard to plan this event that is happening on October 24^th. We gather volunteers from the society and spend the day doing science experiments with children down at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener. If you’re interested in being involved you can find the Facebook event called “Volunteer at THEMUSEUM”, or email nina.warrier@gmail.com.

We also have smaller events that change term to term. For example, this term we are doing group trips to the blood drive to make donating blood more accessible to our members. Some terms we run a bottle drive around the neighbourhood and donate the money to our chosen charity. Every year we run a charity headshave during orientation week that is always a huge success.

Finally, we participate in National Engineering Month! March brings us a few big outreach events. These events include the Charity Bus Push, Rube Goldberg machine-building with elementary school students, and CANstruction at Conestoga Mall. If you’ll be around in the winter I highly recommend checking them out!

If you have any questions or you would like to get involved in EngSoc’s outreach, you can send an email to our lovely outreach commissioner Liz at outreach.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca. You can also always talk to me by dropping by the office or emailing vpexternal.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca.

Good luck! Bear down for midterms! (Why yes, that was a reference, nice catch).