Fundraising is an important part of the student chapters success. We rely on industry sponsorship and fundraising events to provide community, social, and technical activities for our members throughout the year. Social events are a great time for Student Chapter members to meet and connect with each other outside of school.
To raise money for our social, technical, and community events, our chapter likes to have food sale fundraisers! We have sold many types of food, including perogies, grilled cheese sandwiches, and burgers. We recently started selling empanadas and samosas and discovered they are a HUGE hit! Our engineering community at the University sure loves them. Thank you to all the patrons and volunteers for the success of our food fundraisers!
Every year, our chapter likes to have social events to help relieve our mind from books and build up a strong bond with the members. We have organized many types of social events including Laser Tag, Activate, Badminton, and Across the Board games. Our chapter members sure love them.
On November 9, 2021, we went to Across the Board Cafe to celebrate the end of midterms with board games. We briefly played “What Do You Meme?”, but ended up spending most of the time just catching up as this was our first in-person event since the onset of the pandemic. It was great to interact with our fellow students in person again and the board game was also fun.
On May 11, 2022, we held our End of Term UofM ITE Social Event. We had a lot of fun playing mini golf at the Golf Dome and catching up over dinner at Original Joe's.
Pumpkin Carving & Painting
Around Halloween, a group of our student chapter members get together for our annual pumpkin carving event. A few years ago, we tried to do something different and interesting by holding a joint pumpkin carving event with another engineering student chapter. This event was a huge success!! Thanks to those who are able to come out to this awesome social event.
For many years, the Student Chapter holds an annual Christmas party for student members and members of the transportation industry in Winnipeg. The purpose of the event is to give students an opportunity to meet as many other student members and professionals as they can in the night. Many student members (including some alumni) and professionals spent the night mingling while enjoying the delicious potluck dinner and festive music.