{"id":11419,"date":"2022-10-17T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=11419"},"modified":"2022-10-17T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T23:08:14","slug":"pizza-prizes-and-squashes-science-social-2022-a-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2022\/10\/17\/pizza-prizes-and-squashes-science-social-2022-a-huge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza, prizes, and squashes &#8230; Science Social 2022 a huge success!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the 80+ students, faculty and staff who came out for our 15th Annual Science Social held September 29th on patio. We were excited to see everyone back in person enjoying some pizza &#8230; <em>lots of pizza<\/em> and prizes &#8230; <em>lots of prizes<\/em> <em>and squashes<\/em> while checking out the STEM Clubs and Associations. Our emcee for the evening was our Associate Dean, <strong>Ian Affleck<\/strong>. UFV President <strong>Joanne MacLean<\/strong> and UFV Provost <strong>James Mandigo<\/strong> even stopped by to visit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11421 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to the following student groups who were on hand to answer questions and hopefully sign on a few new members.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ASA<\/strong>: Agriculture Student Association<\/li>\n<li><strong>PMSA<\/strong>: Pre-Med Student Association<\/li>\n<li><strong>PDSA<\/strong>: Pre-Dental Student Association<\/li>\n<li><strong>PSA<\/strong>: Physics Student Association<\/li>\n<li><strong>BCSA<\/strong>: Biology and Chemistry Student Association<\/li>\n<li><strong>SLUECSA<\/strong>: School of Land Use and Environmental Change Student Association<\/li>\n<li><strong>UFVWEST<\/strong>: Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11422 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheryl Van Nes<\/strong> from Campus Rec brought her life-size Jenga and chess set; <strong>Deanna Devitt<\/strong> and <strong>Jason Li<\/strong> from the Centre for Experiential and Career Education were on hand to answer those burning questions about coop and careers; <strong>Jennifer Martel<\/strong> and her her team from Sustainable UFV were there to share information on Sustainability at UFV and how everyone can get involved; Nicky Kang and Harman Rathore from RBC welcomed the students with snacks and smiling faces; and <strong>Aaron Levy<\/strong> from CIVL Radio brought his beats and supplied the music for the evening!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11430 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide4-1024x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide4-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide4-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide4-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/Slide4.jpg 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prizes were graciously donated by the Departments of <strong>Biology, Chemistry, Math &amp; Stats, Agriculture Technology, SLUEC, Science Dean&#8217;s Office, Advising<\/strong> and <strong>Campus Recreation<\/strong>. Ian&#8217;s prize assistants were none other than <strong>Lucy Lee<\/strong>, Science Dean and <strong>Rilla Apostolakis<\/strong>, Science Advisor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11436 size-large alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_5268-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_5268-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_5268-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_5268-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_5268.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A huge thank you to the Science Social Committee \u2013\u00a0<strong>Caroline Majeau<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Janice Nagtegaal<\/strong>\u00a0from the Faculty of Science Dean\u2019s office; and\u00a0<strong>Rilla Apostolakis<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Karen Cooper<\/strong>\u00a0from Science Advising for organizing this yearly event.<\/p>\n<p>See you all again on the patio next year!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2022\/10\/ScienceSocial2022.Bondar-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the 80+ students, faculty and staff who came out for our 15th Annual Science Social held September 29th on patio. We were excited to see everyone back in person enjoying some pizza &#8230; lots of pizza and prizes &#8230; lots of prizes and squashes while checking out the STEM Clubs and Associations. &#8230; <a title=\"Pizza, prizes, and squashes &#8230; Science Social 2022 a huge success!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2022\/10\/17\/pizza-prizes-and-squashes-science-social-2022-a-huge-success\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":11420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[444,2,3,7,21,5,440],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-11419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-biology","category-chemistry","category-deans-office","category-events","category-mathstats","category-sluec-departments","tag-science-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11419"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11437,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11419\/revisions\/11437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}