WUSA Clubs
200 University Ave. W. N2L 3G1 Waterloo, ON, Canada

Clubs are running (virtually) this semester! Here's what's happening for the month of January: Our Clubs & Societies event starts January 25 on the WUSA Clubs & Societies Community Facebook Group & on the WUSA Clubs Instagram... Club events & opportunities are happening soon which means we'll be starting up our Monday Instagram Stories. Stay tuned! Looking for a volunteer opportunity? Sign up to be a WUSA Clubs Support Team member by emailing [email protected] Club sign-ups for takeovers & Humans of Clubs are OPEN: links in our bio Sign up for our mailing list to get our newsletters so you know what's happening with WUSA clubs & how to get involved Clubs Survey: we want your feedback for the Fall 2020 semester! See all the links to these items in our bio & get ready for a semester full of club activities & ways to get involved during your virtual semester! #wusaclubs #uwaterloo

This semester was a challenging one. But before we wrap up for the break, we wanted to share some awesome highlights from this semester This semester we had: 100 active clubs 100+ club events... 7 New Clubs 7 Club Takeovers Approximately 1000 new WUSA Clubs & Societies Community Members! We want to thank our club presidents, execs & volunteers for keeping clubs running this semester! We can’t wait to see what you do next semester

Is your club interested in taking over our new Instagram account? Well, who's stopping you? Read the guidebook and sign up!

This week @uw.bmlt will be taking over our Instagram! UW Black Medical Leaders of Tomorrow aims to encourage and assist Black undergraduate and graduate students who wish to pursue medicine to increase diversity within the healthcare field. Stay tuned to see their takeover!... #wusaclubs #uwaterloo

Our final club for WUSA’s Volunteer Awards is @uwstudentshelpingseniors ! SHS won the Initiative award and has been running since Spring 2020 SHS aims to help support seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic and support students virtually connecting with seniors during the most restrictive times. Normally, seniors residing in nursing homes and retirement residences are able to have family and friends over, especially during special days like birthdays and holidays. Ever since ...the pandemic began, seniors are facing restrictions on visitors and are much more isolated compared to normal circumstances. Our club hopes to fill in the gaps of having visitors by sending birthday cards to celebrate the seniors' birthdays and make them feel more connected. This also rings a positive impact on the student volunteers of our club by allowing them to become active contributors to our community by supporting and helping during the pandemic. Our main activity is to send monthly birthday cards for the seniors in two nursing homes in KW. We also actively seek to receive PPE donations to distribute to various nursing homes in the region. Finally, we have recently begun a pen-pal system where seniors who are interested in sending replies back to the cards the students sent, are able to use the extra blank cards we are sending. We are hoping to launch Quarantine Buddies, which are one-on-one weekly video-chatting sessions with seniors of Chartwell Retirement Residence for any interested volunteers. This way, students will be able to connect with the seniors better during COVID-19 and support each other! We are also hoping to host events for donations that will support seniors in our KW region during the pandemic.

This week’s takeover is with @hanvoicewaterloo! HanVoice is a national organization advocating for improved human rights in North Korea. Stay tuned to learn more about them this week!... #uwaterloo #wusaclubs

@uwaterloopremed won this semester's Club award! Premed hosts events & activities such as Pre-Med 101, Health Professionals Panel, Medical Student Panel and has been running for 10 years "The purpose of the club is to gather University of Waterloo students, staff, faculty and members of the UW community at large to offer an outlet for those students interested in future studies in different healthcare professions. The Pre-Med Club promotes respect, pride and spirit within the University Community. The Club assists students who are interested in studying Medicine at a professional level. We hope to continue to guide pre-med students in their journey to different healthcare professions by providing different resources and informative events." #uwaterloo #wusaclubs

Next up for Volunteer Appreciation is Monica Xu, who is in 4B Computer Science and has won the Executive Award! I helped foster community combat social isolation for @UWACC through hosting Music Trivia Night, watch parties, Discord contests, and the likes. There was always something going on every week! Members were able to keep track of social events through a curated weekly email digest I led. Huge shoutout to the @UWACC execs (Alisa, Egan, Moira, Reid) and the Unaccompanied Minors for all their hard work and uplifting energy Hope everyone had fun this term and keep your eyes peeled for upcoming music releases from UWACC in the next few months! (YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/uwacappellaensemble)

WUSA's Volunteer Award nominations are OPEN If you know a club or club volunteer, executive or president whose efforts deserve recognition for this term, pop in an award nomination here: https://wusa.ca//clubs-infor/wusa-awards-nomination-form. Here are some of the awards that apply to clubs:... Club New Club President Executive Volunteer Initiative You can read all about the requirements for each award here: https://wusa.ca/about/awards/feds-awards Who do you think deserves one of these awards? #wusaclubs #uwaterloo See more

This semester has been a major challenge for clubs but so many club presidents and execs rose to the challenge! Eden Solomon is a 3B Honors Biology Co-op student the president of @uw.bmlt and is this semester’s winner of the President’s Award for WUSA’s Volunteer Awards! I have been serving as the president for @uw.bmlt since it was created in January. Throughout this time the club has grown immensely, and as a team we have been able to create a supportive community for BI...POC students who wish to pursue a career in health care. Part of my role includes coordinating between execs, reaching out to external affiliates, and maintaining communication with other COS chapters across Ontario. Our goal is to provide a platform for students to actively engage in discussions and provide them with relevant resources to increase minority representation in medicine! Stay tuned to see more winners from WUSA’s Volunteer Awards! #uwaterloo #wusaclubs

This week @uwworldvision will be taking over our account! UW World Vision is a chapter of the National organization, World Vision Canada. Their goal is to support World Vision in its relief, development and advocacy efforts. Stay tuned to learn more about them!... #wusaclubs #uwaterloo

QTPOC KW and Glow Centre for Sexual & Gender Diversity have collaborated to present the Colonialism: Exploring Gender and Sexuality panel. This panel dissects the ever-changing definitions of gender and sexuality resulting from the downstream effects of colonialism. Their panellists will speak to pre-colonial examples of gender and sexuality as well as gender diversity from different diasporic and Indigenous communities. Registration is available through the Google Form i...n QTPOC KW's Linktree When: December 1st, 6:30 PM ET on Zoom

Here is the link for movie night!: https://www.tele.pe/netflix/92ad2c7c55832df6?s=s128

Check out UW Cooking Club’s Candy Apple tutorial! Try this recipe out, take a picture and tag @wusaclubs and @uwcookingclub and be entered to win 1 of 3 prizes by October 31st at Midnight!