EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

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SEUM Community Cleanup
Annual Event Since Fall 2021

Student Energy University of Manitoba is committed to connecting with and bettering our communities. In Fall 2021 we had our first community cleanup event with supplies provided by Take Pride Winnipeg. All students were welcome to come and spend the day picking up litter along Bison Drive and in the surrounding residential areas. It was a great opportunity to connect with other students, learn about the impact of litter on the environment, and better the community!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our most recent cleanup (Fall, 2022). We filled up a total of 27 trash bags, weighing in at over 110lbs! Keep an eye on our "get involved" page to stay up to date on our upcoming cleanup events. 

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Tour of Torque Brewing Company

November 2022

SEUM had the opportunity to tour Torque Brewing over reading week in November! The staff there taught us about the craft beer brewing process, starting with bags of malted barley and finishing off with their canning line.
Our tour emphasized Torque’s efforts to be more sustainable in their business operations, which they achieve by giving brewing byproducts to local farmers for animal feed, cleaning and filtering waste water on site, through the use of centrifugal filtering rather than the typical material filters, and the use of heat transfer between various operations as a source of energy to reduce energy use. We also learned about the economic and environmental impacts of glass bottles vs aluminum cans for packaging.
After the tour we spent some time in the taproom and enjoyed delicious beers. Thank you to Torque Brewing Company for having us at this event!

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2022/2023 Holiday Activities

Halloween

This past October SEUM got together to carve pumpkins and play jackbox games in Halloween costumes!

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Nature Hikes
Summer 2022

In the summer of 2022, the SEUM team went to Fort Whyte Alive and did a nature hike as a group!

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Professional Development Workshops

Autodesk Fusion 360 (2021)

Our VP Projects hosted an instructional workshop in 2021 on the ins and outs of Fusion 360, a powerful 3D design software. Attendees were walked through the design process for a complex mechanical part that provided exposure to many of Fusion 360's design features. The written version of the workshop is available for all SEUM members.

Autodesk AutoCAD (2019)

Our team hosted a workshop to teach students how to use AutoCAD: a powerful computer aided design and drafting software, in preparation to work on a building retrofit project.

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Energy Tours

The Forks (2019)

Our energy tours began at the geothermal site located at The Forks: a historic area and popular marketplace in downtown Winnipeg. The head engineer for the site gave us background information on the installation process and let us tour the different areas where machinery is installed. ​

Fort Whyte Alive (2019)

​Next, our group met up at the Fort Whyte Alive interpretive centre to learn about the local prairie wildlife and visit their solar panel installation site. Here we met the head engineer for the company that installed the solar panels and he explained the technical information behind how they work. He also answered all of our questions about utilizing a solar panel for energy generation.

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Year End Wind-Ups
Annual Event

Virtual Game Night (2021)

To wrap up the 2020-2021 school year, we had a virtual game night for all SEUM members!

Escape Room (2022)

To wrap up the 2021-2022 school year, the SEUM team did escape rooms and went out for dinner!