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Harry Potter

Caitríona Ní Chonaill

We had a really great yea all 8 films (and raised money for charity along the way) and held a Sorting Ceremony, Photobooth and a Christmas party for our members. We held many fun collaborations with other societies throughout the year, from a Multilingual Harry Potter Quiz with questions in 7 different languages, a Choral event with Choral and Scribble Societies, a Fanfiction event with English Literature Society and had a fantastic Potions events with Chemistry and Science Societies. We were very proud to raise hundreds of euro for our charity partners such as TENI and look forward to doing it all again in the future!

NetSoc

Chairperson: Thomas Galligan

Our year was outstanding, with many new and old members coming back in-person and attending our weekly gaming and tech talk. While it was nice, there has been ups and downs but together as a committee we have overcame the challenges face and developed incredible friendships as a result

Our greatest achievements this year was the Cork DevCon that was held on the 1st of October 2022. It was the first DevCon held in-person organised by us, Netsoc We had 3 sponsers and many guest speakers, which was a big deal for us Another great achievement I'd say was the fact that our committee was able to make it through the year, since we were missing a few people as well as our secretary resigning after a few months. The friendship and bond built through the work shared was one of the best and interesting experiences. Hopefully in future years, we can strengthen and grow Netsoc to become what it used to be in the golden days :)

Sci-fi, Anime, Fantasy and Horror

Chairperson: Jason Scully

This year we continued to be one of the most active societies on campus, holding over 50 events this year, ranging from screenings, to cosplay workshops, to guest speaker talks. This was a year of firsts for us. In the week one back of semester 2 we organised our first ever themed week- Geek Week.

We held four events across the week- a screening of the critically acclaimed Last Of Us TV show, a talk by sci-fi and fantasy author Robert A. Geobey, Speed Friending and our multi-soc collaborative Science Of Pokémon panel night where various science socs took a Pokémon and attempted to apply principles to science to it. At Christmas, we held a Potluck with 8 other societies and the SU and filled two floors of the Hub. We also started our own publication (Litfix!) in collaboration with MTU Anime and Manga and UCC Scribble Soc The booklet contained artworks drawn by the talented members of both universities! We hope for this to become an annual staple of all societies involved. I

It was also a great year for conventions. For the first time since covid we were able to organise a society trip away to Akumakon in Galway A brilliant time was had by all and we can’t wait to go back next year. This year we also had the first Kaizokucon in person since the pandemic. The committee really outdid themselves, going above and beyond to pull off an incredible weekend attended by approximately 2,300 people. The headliner guests were voice actors Jonah Scott and Leah Clark and cosplayer Akakioga The charity auction smashed the previous record raising over €17,000 euros for charity. This incredible work didn’t go unnoticed at Stars we won Best Social Society and our chairperson Jibs won a Best Individual award. This year wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing work of the committee or the continued support of our brilliant members. Going forwards we want to sci-fi to continue to be a found family and home-away-fromhome for all of UCC’s nerds and geeks, no matter what their interests!