From the Board

By: Joep Elfrink & Charlotte van Reijen

Dear reader,

Since it is the second edition of the CaT, it’s finally our turn to give you an update on the current situation of the association. A lot has happened since the previous edition of the CaT.

At the moment of writing, we have just had the half-yearly General Members Assembly. So the past few months we've been pretty busy with preparing our documents for this. Luckily everything went well.

To tell you something about ourselves and what keeps us busy during our board year, I (Joep) am maintaining as much contact with companies as possible in order to set up events based on career orientation. Thus far, I’ve seen lots of different and interesting companies all over the Netherlands. Together with these companies, I’m trying to set up as many events as possible, such as lunch lectures, excursions, trainings and networking events. An example of such a networking event is the Chemical Engineering Branch Day, for which 3 companies are invited, 2 lectures and 1 real-life case are presented to our master students. At the end we will close off with a networking drink where the students and companies can get to know each other. Unfortunately, due to a lockdown, the event had to be postponed but I’m thrilled to have it continued at a later time. And for now, I’d love to give the word to Charlotte.

I (Charlotte) have been really busy with our finances and making sure that everything is up-to-date and booked in correctly. Before the GMA I’ve been mainly busy with working on the half-yearly financial report, but now that the GMA is over I have more time to focus on other things, for example planning activities to celebrate the dies.

The past couple of months, the corona measures have been stricter again for a while. At one point, physical lectures couldn’t even continue. Luckily, we’ve been allowed to stay open as an association to work as the board and serve coffee and tea during the entirety of this lockdown. Even though some planned activities couldn’t continue during this time, we have still maintained close contact with our sister associations. We’ve been able to have some physical, but unfortunately mostly online meetings with them and have played an epic game of mail hangman. Hopefully we’ll soon meet more of our sister associations at the ONCS!

Right now, the corona measures are virtually gone, so let’s hope for the best for the remainder of this year! Now that physical activities can continue again, we have a lot in store for our students and alumni. We’ve already been able to hold a big party to celebrate the reopening of the TAP and are working on organizing a prom. These are going to be a very busy, but fun couple of months!