This is AYY’s association newsletter 6/2013. If you want to receive AYY’s association newsletter to your e-mail, please subscribe.

May Day is approaching and therefore this newsletter includes plenty of May Day information about Crazy John, badge sales, sitsi contest and Äpy deals. Wappu.fi site is open again. You can add your association’s May Day events to the calendar on the website.

Content of the newsletter

1. Badge sales on Monday 15 Apr and Thursday 25 Apr
2. Crazy John checkpoints
3. AYY Shop to open – associations have the opportunity to have their own items for sale
4. Sitsi contest on Saturday, 27 Apr
5. Make your own Äpy deal at diili.apy.fi
6. Remember to report your association events for AYY’s pocket calendar 2013-2014
7. Intensive yoga courses at Polijazz

1. BADGE SALES ON MONDAY 15 APR AND THURSDAY 25 APR  

May Day is gradually approaching and it is the best time to earn some extra funds for your association. Teekkari Section will arrange badge sales in front of Hall M on Monday, 15 Apr and in connection with Akateeminen Wartti on Thursday, 25 Apr. In the event, we sell your badges at the prices that you have determined. All income from the event comes directly to you (-5 % to cover cash flow costs and losses) and you will naturally get back all the unsold badges. The maximum number of badges is 50. The maximum number for guild badges and other popular badges is 100.

Your share in all of this is as simple as Äpy sales.

• Fill out the form below: https://lomake.ayy.fi/teekkarijaosto/merkkimyynti-badge-sales/
• Arrive at Lämppäri (Lämpömiehenkuja 2) and head to Valtakunta, where you return the form that you have filled in (http://www.tinyurl.com/merkkimyynti) and deliver badges for sale (separate different ones) in a cardboard box available in the room.

Badges delivered before 13 Apr will be sold on 15 Apr. The official DL is 19 Apr, so badges delivered before that and those left from the previous sales will be sold on 25 Apr. You will get your badges back when the persons in charge of badge sales recovers from May Day celebrations.

Please note that there is also possibilty to bring your badges to the AYY central office (Lämpömiehenkuja 2) on Sunday 14.4. from 3pm to 6pm. The doors are locked so call +358 503011931 (Kim Kavander) or +358 407276021 (Juha Jokela) and we come to open the door.

Income from badge sales are paid by bank transfer to the association’s account. In other words, a private person’s badges cannot be sold. Due to the system used by AYY, the account provided by the association must be an account of the association and not a private person’s account.

2. CRAZY JOHN CHECKPOINTS

May Day will be here surprisingly soon and the traditional long-awaited Crazy John event is also approaching! At the event, teams of 4-10 people go around Otaniemi, performing a series of checkpoints and competing for the title of ”the craziest bunch of engineering students”. The question is: would your association like to arrange a checkpoint for the event?

If you are interested and would like to organise a checkpoint in Otaniemi and have a great time at the same time, please register in here by Friday, 19 Apr. If your association does not have a club room and you would like to arrange a checkpoint indoors, please contact us as soon as possible, and we will try to provide the necessary facilities.

Revision: What, where, when?

• Time: 29 Apr 2013, 10pm-1am, after the opening shot of the night prank
• Location: Around Otaniemi
• Concept: Groups of friends tour checkpoints in Otaniemi battling for the title of ”the craziest bunch of engineering students”. The winner will be published in the declaration of May Day celebrations.

As a bonus, we offer one free rental of Otaranta rooftop sauna in the next summer or autumn for the association which arranges the best checkpoint! For further information, please contact Teekkari Culture Directors (juha.jokela@ayy.fi and kim.kavander@ayy.fi). Registered associations will receive further information later.

3. AYY SHOP TO OPEN SOON – ASSOCIATIONS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THEIR OWN ITEMS FOR SALE

AYY’s new online store AYY Shop will open in the second half of April. Associations operating within AYY have the opportunity to have their own products for sale in the new online store.

Read the entire newsletter for associations at ayy.fi. (in Finnish)

4. SITSI CONTEST AT ALVARI SQUARE ON SATURDAY, 27 APR

On May Day week’s Saturday, 27 Apr, the sitsi contest fills the Alvari Square! In this traditional  celebration, you have the freedom to let your imagination run wild and execute your wildest fantasies. Will your team have the best idea, atmosphere and implementation this May Day? Who will raise the concept of sitsit to a new dimension? To harness the unlimited potential of your academic feast, please proceed as follows:

1. Gather a group of enthusiastic participants
2. Create a marvelous feast with a theme, setting and catering
3. Register your team for the competition by Wednesday, 24 Apr, 11.59pm here
4. Implementation at Alvari Square on Satuday, 27 Apr, from 2pm onwards!

A prestigious jury will elect both the winners and teams that receive an honorable mention. The awards ceremony will take place in the declaration of May Day celebrations on 30 Apr.

Please remember – the most important part of this contest is a good atmosphere and that Alvari is left tidy.

5. MAKE YOUR OWN ÄPY DEAL AT DIILI.APY.FI

Have you dreamed of making the Äpy deal, as a member of Athene would dream of a new Apple product or a chemist student of a larger fermentor? Well, of course you have!

The wait is over, as Äpy’s deal machine is now here. Take your first steps towards Äpy millions and navigate to diili.apy.fi to tailor a suitable deal for yourself or your group of friends. Have a nice trip!

Please keep in mind that you can sign or make your deal at Äpy service point already from this date onwards every Tuesday and Thursday in the main building at 10am-12noon and on Wednesdays at Täffä’s spaghetti queue between 11am-1pm.

6. REMEMBER TO SUBMIT YOUR ASSOCIATION’S EVENTS FOR AYY’S POCKET CALENDAR 2013-2014

Associations and actors within AYY have the opportunity to submit important event dates for the student union’s academic year calendar. Events can be submitted through the google docs file linked below until Sunday, 26 May 2013. Please add your events under the correct month in chronological order. Please enter the text you want in the calendar ”Event name/Text” field (yellow background). Please note that one line can hold up the maximum of 25 characters of text, including spaces. When writing the text, please consider how many lines from  your own calendar you wish to be ”wasted”. The calendar is trilingual so please take this into account when planning the text.

If there are several events marked on the same date, the event that concerns most of the students will end up in the calendar. The file is editable until the provided deadline 26 May 2013, until which you can make changes to your events. Please fill out the columns carefully, and check and double check that the information is correct. Please also remember to include information on who is organising the event.

Submit your events in here.

Questions and comments to AYY’s Communications Officer Henna Lahti (henna.lahti@ayy.fi or 050 5209440).

7. INTENSIVE YOGA COURSES AT POLIJAZZ

Try out Vinyasa Flow yoga in the intensive courses of Polijazz in May! Classes are suitable for both beginners and those who have practiced yoga before.

Course description: Vinyasa refers to Hatha yoga technique, where breathing is used to rhythm the yoga practice. Asanas are bound together in a continuous series along with the breathing rhythm. In Vinyasa Flow classes, we get familiar with flowing, energetic and dynamic form of yoga, including sun salutations. We go through a few pranayama breathing exercises and meditation techniques. However, the basis of the class is a meaningful and challenging asana series.

You will need flexible, comfortable clothing and a yoga mat.

Course in May (total of 2 x 2h):

• Fri, 10 May, 4.30pm-6.30pm Multi-purpose facilities (Jämeräntaival 3A).
• Sat, 11 May, 12noon-2pm Otahalli mirror hall (Otaranta 6).

Price €15 per course (member/non-member).

The course instructor Mathilda Kurki is a trained dancer who got into the world of yoga for the first time at the age of 12, encouraged by her dance teacher at that time. She graduated as yoga instructor in 2010, when completing the instructor training of Yoga Nordic. Since 2010, Mathilda has been teaching yoga in Finland, Spain and India, and currently works as an instructor at Yoga Nordic Helsinki studio. Mathilda searches inspiration for her classes from various forms of yoga, such as Ashtanga, Yin yoga and Iyengar yoga.

Sign up for the yoga courses on Polijazz website.

Further information on Polijazz dance courses is available on the website and Facebook group Polijazz ry.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR OWN NEWS IN THIS NEWSLETTER?

Please send a brief text by Wednesday, 10am, to the address jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi. The news will be translated so you can submit your text in Finnish. The contents of the newsletter are ultimately edited by AYY’s Specialist in Organisational Affairs and Communications Joonas Jylhä (joonas.jylha@ayy.fi, tel: 050 520 9442).