EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
SEUM Community Clean-Up
Annual event since 2021
Student Energy University of Manitoba is committed to connecting with and improving our community. In Fall 2021 we organized our first community clean-up event with supplies provided by Take Pride Winnipeg. Students spent the day picking up litter along Bison Drive and in the surrounding areas. It was a great opportunity to connect with other students, learn about the impact of litter on the environment, and better the community! After the success of our first event, SEUM decided to make our community clean-up an annual event.
Sustainability Showcase
February 2024
SEUM's Sustainability Showcase, in collaboration with the UManitoba Office of Sustainability, was an event for the local community to obtain education, motivation and unity for sustainable action!
We had 13 great booths of local vendors selling eco-friendly products, and sustainability-related organizations sharing education resources. We estimate more than 150 people visited the event!
This event’s success is a testament to the growing interest in sustainable practices in our community. Once again, thank you to all the attendees and vendors for making the Sustainability Showcase a memorable event.
We had 13 great booths of local vendors selling eco-friendly products, and sustainability-related organizations sharing education resources. We estimate more than 150 people visited the event!
This event’s success is a testament to the growing interest in sustainable practices in our community. Once again, thank you to all the attendees and vendors for making the Sustainability Showcase a memorable event.
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What people said..."The organizers chose a wonderful diverse group of vendors, and the market truly had something for everyone."
"I liked seeing all the people that are intentional on being environmentally friendly." "It was nice seeing an event specifically for sustainability and composting!" |
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.
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.
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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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Social Events
Paint Night (Feb. 2023)SEUM members got together to follow a Bob Ross tutorial and paint a nature scene together!
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Escape Rooms (Dec. 2022)To celebrate the end of fall-term classes, SEUM members went out for dinner and did escape rooms!
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Halloween Hangout (Oct. 2022)For Halloween SEUM got together to carve pumpkins and play Jackbox games in Halloween costumes!
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Nature Hike (July 2022)To appreciate our natural environment and the summer weather, the SEUM team went to Fort Whyte Alive and did a nature hike as a group!
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Escape Rooms (April 2022)To wrap up the 2021-2022 school year, the SEUM team did escape rooms and went out for dinner!
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Virtual Game Night (April 2021)To wrap up the 2020-2021 school year, we had a virtual game night for all SEUM members!
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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.
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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.
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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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