Aug 22nd: New grad student orientation schedule and volunteering opportunities + GPS program orientation handout + MAGIC I3 grad student entrepreneur challenge
Please share the below information with your new and current graduate students. In addition, if you are planning orientation events within your own programs and departments and think information on the Graduate Pathways to Success Program would be helpful please feel free to include the attached handout. I’m also happy to come and meet with students in person.
The New Graduate Student Orientation 2014 schedule, including information on Graduate Student Society ticketed events, is now posted at: http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/august-2014/
We need current graduate student volunteers to help welcome new graduate students to UBC!
Do you remember your own orientation at UBC? Would you like to share in that experience again? Opportunities include:
- August 28th: Main Orientation Day – super volunteers, team leaders, morning and afternoon volunteers
- August 29th: GSS Orientation Day – campus and museum tour guides, campus challenge volunteers, boat cruise volunteers
…and more throughout Orientation Week!
You can sign up to volunteer by filling out this survey: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g366d
Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask by contacting us at graduate.orientation@ubc.ca
2014 MAGIC and GRAND I-cubed (I3) Idea, Innovation and Inaugurate Challenge
Are you a current graduate student that has an entrepreneurial idea that has a digital media component, broadly defined? You could enter the MAGIC I-3 Challenge http://magic.ubc.ca/pmwiki.php?n=Main.I3 to win an opportunity for a 3 month residency in the MAGIC lab which would entail technical and business support, including desk space in the lab, access to technical specialists, and the online market validation programme. Register your interest by August 31, 2014 by emailing Lavana Lea at lavana@magic.ubc.ca .