Time to wrap up our first term as exec! It’s been a slice, but now it’s time for me to leave you in the excellent hands of Ola Suchon. I’ll just go through this term at a glance and what I’ve done.
I’ll start with a couple small initiatives that my directors and I started. One thing we began was an environmental task force. In the past we’ve had a director who would work on initiatives to make the society a little more eco-friendly. This term, the director assembled a strong team of volunteers to put their ideas together and implement things to make the entire faculty more eco-friendly. I hope to continue this idea in future terms because it was such a great idea this term. We also started doing group trips to the blood drive as part of our outreach initiatives, which was very successful this term.
We tried to attend a couple more events at other universities, which fell through logistically but I hope we will try more in the future. Finally, something slightly new we did was an alumni networking event. We changed the past Alumni Speaker event to be a event with multiple alumni who gave talks and then the students had an opportunity to network with them. Something more major I did was work with Hannah to bring in The Friendship Bench! The bench is beside DWE, facing CPH and is there to promote mental health awareness and to show EngSoc’s commitment to it.
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Now I’ll move on to some things I plan on doing in the summer! I have lots of interesting ideas. Firstly: the University of Waterloo Engineering Society has grown sick of ESSCO (Engineering Student Societies’ Council of Ontario) and CFES (Canadian Federation of Engineering Students), therefore I’m excited to announce that the Engineering Society will be seceding from Canada to create our own sovereign state! The capital will be POETS, and the national bird will be the Dickcissel (look it up, it’s real).
Next, I intend on bringing every member of EngSoc to every conference! Other schools often bring up to 12 delegates, so Waterloo might as well bring 3000 or however many of you there are. This is the best way to make sure that everyone benefits from them.
As it is summer and we need to beat the heat, I recommend we start a weekly conference to be hosted by the University of Maple Syrup in Whitehorse. Once again, all members of EngSoc will be mandated to be in attendance.
To improve our external relations, EngSoc will also be allowing companies to become members of the society. So if you see Honda or Subway walking around the hallways of CPH, be sure to say hi!
Finally, I will be changing my title to Vice-Supreme Dictator External. Feel free to email me at vsdexreme.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca
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