Hello Everyone!
I'm Kelsey
I’m Kris
I'm Tony
And I’m Roxane
And we are your SuperHuges
aka your Engineering O-Team.
We are very excited to have you join the Engineering
faculty at the University of Waterloo
We are a group of four students who have been working with 200+ leaders over the last 10 months
to organize Engineering Orientation Week
We and your leaders are here to
support you throughout the week and further beyond
this week as friends
We know this transition can
seem like a big endeavour.
There is a lot to take in!
It’s important to remember you are not alone
in this transition and you are surrounded by people
who are going through similar experiences.
Your leaders also went through these experiences
not too long ago and can provide helpful insights.
While we would have loved to meet you all in-person this Fall, we are going to
have an exciting Orientation Week online.
We are excited to meet all of you!
We encourage you to make the most of orientation
and meet some new people within your faculty and
meet some new friends.
You’ll be spending the next five years together,
and friends are what make this experience the best.
This week is a whirlwind of new experiences
and there is no better chance to share these
experiences with others.
This week, you will be demonstrating your
ENG-uity, Creativity and Intelligence
You will also get the opportunity to learn
more about the Engineering Traditions
here at Waterloo.
As you may have already noticed, you have been assigned a colour group
and a subgroup.
Which you can see on engorientation.uwaterloo.ca!
You also have been given an MSTeams for Eng OWeek as well as your
specific colour group.
Your purpose this week is to earn the most points possible with your Colour Group
by participating in activities!
Now, let’s introduce you to the activities
for the week!
Our week just began by that awesome address
from our Dean, Mary Wells.
We would like to thank her for being able
to join us and welcoming you to the University
of Waterloo.
You’ll be able to Earn Your Hard Hat this
week by participating in a variety of activities.
Asynchronous leaderboards, Colour Team vs Colour Team games and an amazing Kahoot will
all earn you points towards your team winning!
Department Hangouts will be happening on Wednesday, September 2nd.
At that time, you will get to interact with upper-year students
in your program and ask them questions.
It is also a great time to meet other First
Years students in your program!
Engineering Traditions will be taking place
on Thursday, September 3rd
Your Engineering Society
Presidents, Delainey and Matt,
will be giving the presentation. You will learn about engineering
traditions
from purpling to the Iron Ring.
Junkyard Wars begins, this afternoon
and will continue through to the end of OWeek.
It will be a series of real life
and minecraft challenges to display
your ENG-inuity, and creativity.
The real life challenges will require you to use any recycled materials
you have on hand, and the Minecraft challenges will be for you to create the greatest inventions ever seen in Minecraft
If you're eagle eyed you’ll find 36 QR codes
littered around Waterloo’s online presence.
Like the one in this video!
Scan them all for points towards your team.
The Toolbox can point
you in the right direction with a hint if you are missing a few
Scavenger Hunt, or ScavEng for short, will consist
of three asynchronous activities.
The first one will test your knowledge!
You will get a list of Trivia questions, and the more answers you have of correct
the more points you
will earn!
The second activity will test your creativity!
You will be provided a list of items to collect
Just like a Scavenger Hunt, you will want to find as many a pictures of said item to earn points
For some of those items, it will be okay to submit a picture from the internet as not all of you will be in Waterloo this Fall.
The last activity will test your attentiveness.
You will get to watch a fun entertaining video. In that video, a bunch of items will be hidden in it. Your goal is to find
as many items in that video as possible and you will earn points for those items located
This is pretty much a giant Where’s Waldo game.
Another annual event you can participate in
is Aerial Photo!
While we normally gather on Village 1 Green
to take a large group photo, this year we will be collecting submissions
to create a photo mosaic.
Starting on today you can submit a
photo of yourself to be included in the mosaic
with all your fellow first years and orientation leaders.
You can also earn points by sharing your experience
on Social Media.
By participating in Social Media challenges,
sharing content on
Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and TikTok and
tagging @engorientation using the #UWOW20
and your colour group hashtag, you will get
to earn points for your team!
And for our final event of the week, we have the Engineering Concert with our very own Smash band, this band is comprised
of our very own Engineering leaders and
they will be playing hits from all genres
and generations.
We, the O-Team, will be
giving our final address as well and announcing the
Winners of O-Week 2020’s Mythical Mayhem.
In addition to the Engineering Activities,
the Central O-Team has also organized
activities for all First Year to attend.
We highly encourage you to participate in
these activities as it is a great way to meet
fellow first years students outside of the Faculty of Engineering.
And because they know that many of you are not inside
Ontario, you will find
these to be timezone independent
Apart from interacting with your leaders on
Microsoft Teams, there is also a whole bunch of
resources available on our website, such as how to get involved in Student Design Teams and other
resources you have and how to
access them.
We hope you enjoy the first ever online
OWeek and we will see you again on Monday
for our last event of the week: the Engineering
Concert!
