Weekly Newsletter 20/2013

This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 20/2013

This year’s Masters of Aalto exhibition is ongoing at Kruunumakasiini in Sörnäinen. Go and check out what Aalto students have achieved. Further information: moa.aalto.fi

The last weekly newsletter of the spring will be published in week 23, on 3‒4 June. Sunny May to all!

This and next week’s events
The service point in Otaniemi is closed on 27-28 May
Submit your events for AYY’s academic year calendar 2013-2014
Dreams made real showcased at the Masters of Aalto event in Sörnäinen
What is the meaning of student culture and traditions to you? Please respond to the survey.
Battle for the mastery of Otaniemi 2.0
Join Aalto University’s community marketplace
Apply for the mentoring programme!
Opiskelija vai työvoimaa? seminar of Akava students on Wed, 22 May
Startup Weekend Helsinki 24-26 May @ Open Innovation House
IDBM students’ Inspire 2013 event on Fri, 24 May
Guest Lecture – Jay B. Barney: What is Strategic Management
Call for study abroad and internship applications
Invitation: Bit Bang Seminar on global competition
Startup Sauna and Aaltoes are looking for new team members for the organisation of Slush technology conference arranged in the autumn
Learn to Think BIG – Open Aaltoes trip to Silicon Valley September 2013
OtaKoppi Season Opening, Thursday May 16th at 17

1. This and next week’s events

Week 20

Mon, 13 May – Cleaning session of digital camera sensor chip
Tue, 14 May – AYY’s Representative Council meeting
Wed, 15 May – Bit Bang Seminar on Global Competition
Wed, 15 May. – Prayer meeting
Thu, 16 May – Academic Aurajoki River skipper degree by Aava
Thu, 16 May – Joint concert of Dominante and PK
Fri, 17 May – Intensive course of partner salsa
Sat, 18 May – ARTS Exposed sales event

2. The service point in Otaniemi is closed on 27-28 May

The service point in Otaniemi is closed on 27-28 May (Mon-Tue) due to training.

3. Submit your events for AYY’s academic year 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.

http://tinyurl.com/ayycalendar2013

Questions and comments to AYY’s Communications Officer Henna Lahti (henna.lahti@ayy.fi or 050 520 9440).

4. Dreams made real showcased at the Masters of Aalto event in Sörnäinen

Dreams and visions become reality as the newly graduates from Aalto University present their thesis projects at the Masters of Aalto 2013 year show. The exhibition is held in Sörnäinen, Helsinki from 8 to 26 May. Masters of Aalto offers the visitor a lively presentation of studies at Aalto University and introduces the societal role the university has. Masters of Aalto showcases the works of 80 graduates from the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture, the School of Business and the schools of technology.

The venue is a former granary, a 121-year-old brick building at the corner of Hämeentie and Lautatarhankatu, which for a long time functioned as a warehouse. The premises managed by the City of Helsinki will now be opened to the public for the first time.

Masters of Aalto on 8–26 May 2013, Kruununmakasiini, Hämeentie 39, Helsinki. The exhibition is open Monday–Friday at 12–20 and during the weekends at 12–18. Free entrance.

Follow the progress of Masters of Aalto at moa.aalto.fi.

5. What is the meaning of student culture and traditions to you? Please respond to the survey.

I am conducting a Master’s Thesis on behalf of Aalto University Student Union about student traditions and student culture among the students of Aalto University. The aim of the research is to find out what student culture and student traditions mean to students themselves. Please help and respond to a survey about student traditions! Responding to the survey takes about 8 minutes. I hope to get responses from all kinds of students – including international students – and you don’t have to be a tradition specialist to respond. The English survey is aimed at international students and how they see Finnish student traditions. Responses are still needed from the students of arts and economics, in particular.

The survey can be found here.

All responses are handled confidentially and the survey data will be archived in AYY’s archives. All information will be anonymised and the identity of a single informant can not be detected from the survey.

Many thanks in advance, Emi Maeda

More information: emi.maeda@ayy.fi, 044 577 4761

6. Battle for the mastery of Otaniemi 2.0

Next autumn, on 3 Oct 2013, the battle for the mastery of Otaniemi will return to our midst harder, bigger and more realistic than ever. Megazone Outdoor equipment, residing in Finland for the second year, brings an epic outdoor battle concept to Otaniemi – for the second time.

16 teams of ten people fight with infrared lasers with new rules in the tournament of eight hours in order to win the prestigious mastery of Otaniemi. A single battle lasts about half an hour and even one loss is enough to eliminate a team from the game.

Pictures of the last year’s battle are available here.

The participation fee is €100/team, which is €10/person. Advance registration will open at 3.15pm on 15 May at http://lomake.ayy.fi/aalto-liike/toh-2/

Further information: oliver.heinonen@ayy.fi

7. Join Aalto University’s community marketplace

Sharetribe (formerly called Kassi) is a free community marketplace for Aalto University students and personnel, where you can buy, sell, loan, rent and give away goods, search for apartments, offer or ask for help from others, or set up a carpool. Through the service, you can conveniently find an apartment or furniture, get rid of your old textbooks or borrow a drill from a neighbour. Through the service, you can also offer or ask for help for IT problems or carrying moving boxes. Get to know the community marketplace at https://aalto.sharetribe.com/

8. Apply for the mentoring programme!

MASTER STUDENT, mentors are University graduates, our alumni. As a student (mentee) you will get support and guidance how to face working life, especially in another culture, a chance to improve your job application skills and a unique possibility to build your network among a cross-disciplinary group of professionals.

Application period 1 Apr-31 May

Grab the chance for a great opportunity: https://alumninet.aalto.fi/mentoring

9. Opiskelija vai työvoimaa? seminar of Akava students on Wed, 22 May

What: Opiskelija vai työvoimaa? seminar
Location: Lasipalatsi/ Palmu (Helsinki)
Time: 22 May 2013, 2pm-5pm
Organiser: Akava students

Coffee will be served

Akava students invite you to discuss higher education students’ working life affairs and internships together with interests groups. The event focuses on the relationship between studies and the working life, as well as cooperation between higher education institutions, workplaces and students. In addition to comments shedding light on the subject, Akava students’ criteria for high-quality academic internship will be published in the event.

The following persons will participate in the discussion:

Juhani Saari, Researcher, Foundation for Studies and Education (OTUS)
Toni Asikainen, Board Member, The Union of Students in Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences (SAMOK)
Tuomas Telkkä, Industrial Policy Adviser, Federation of Finnish Enterprises
Joel Kuuva, Board Member, National Union of University Students in Finland (SYL)

Please register by 4pm on Fri, 17 May using this form.

10. Startup Weekend Helsinki 24-26 May @ Open Innovation House

Startup Weekend arrives in Finland on 24-26 May! It is an international 54-hour hackathon, the purpose of which is to bring together people from different backgrounds and areas of expertise to generate ideas and develop new business ideas. To this date, the event has been organised more than 1,000 times in almost 500 cities.

Are you interested in founding your own start-up business? Do you have a business idea that you would like to develop, but you do not have the necessary expertise or team?

Participate in Startup Weekend either alone or with your team and develop your own idea with the help of successful mentors.

Further information: http://helsinki.startupweekend.org/ and on facebook.

11. IDBM opiskelijoiden Inspire 2013 event on Fri, 24 May

The International Design Business Management (IDBM) Program of Aalto University celebrates its 17th anniversary by hosting once again an inspiring networking event on 24 May 2013 starting at 2pm at Tulli- ja Pakkahuone, Helsinki.

This unique one-day celebration consists of insightful discussions, workshops and presentations that will demonstrate why design should be considered as a key element of innovative and successful businesses. In addition, the aim is to discuss about the benefits of co-design, innovation processes and multidisciplinary work in high-complexity projects.

More about the program and tickets here

Link to Facebook site of the event: https://www.facebook.com/IDBMINSPIRE

and Twitter site: https://twitter.com/IDBMProgram

Video link of the event.

12. Guest Lecture – Jay B. Barney: What is Strategic Management

What is Strategic Management? Welcome to listen to a lecture by Professor Jay Barney on strategic management. The event will be held on Wednesday, 29 May, 3pm-5.30pm in the Great Hall of the School of Economics Main Building.

For more information and event registration visit here.

13. Call for study abroad and internship applications

Asia Exchange’s study abroad and internship opportunities are for free mover students. The language of instruction is English. Application is done via

Asia Exchange at www.asiaexchange.org

Application deadlines: Autumn 2013: May 31 / June 30 | Spring 2014: September 30 / October 31

Internships: Asia Exchange offers internships in Asia. There are hundreds of places available for students from different fields of study. Learn more at www.asiaexchange.org

14. Invitation: Bit Bang Seminar on global competition

15 May 2013 at 12.30pm-5pm, TUAS Building, auditorium AS1 (Otaniementie 17, 02150 Espoo)

Bit Bang 5, the fifth Aalto-wide and multidisciplinary post-graduate course, invites you to attend the presentations of the semester’s team work assignments on 15 May. The event takes place at Aalto University TUAS Building.

The post graduate students have spent the spring discussing global competition for leadership in innovation, policy-making, business and technology. Come and hear what they have found out!

15. Startup Sauna and Aaltoes are looking for new team members for the organisation of Slush technology conference arranged in the autumn

Slush is Nothern Europe’s leading technology conference, which brings together the most promising growth companies from the Nordic Countries, the Baltic states and Russia to meet international investors and the media. This year, the event is organised for the sixth time and it is expected to attract about 5,000 visitors, 1,000 start-up companies, as well as 500 investors and members of the media. The event will be held at Helsinki Cable Factory on 13-14 November.

We are currently looking for new team members for several different areas in Slush. We require, above all, the courage to put yourself on the line, the ability to constantly learn something new and, in particular, the willingness to make Slush one of the best start-up events in the world. Previous experience is not necessary but it is considered an advantage. By filling out the application form, you can participate in the organising of the largest and most international technology conference in Finland. We will contact you!

Further information: markus@slush.fi or slush.fi

16. Learn to Think BIG – Open Aaltoes trip to Silicon Valley September 2013

Facebook, Dropbox, GoPro, Eventbrite, etc… Ever wonder why Silicon Valley is THE hub of tech startups? Now you have a chance to experience the entrepreneurial atmosphere and Californian climate as Aaltoes is organizing an open trip to Silicon Valley. In addition to visiting startups and meeting seasoned entrepreneurs the program will include visiting TechCrunch Disrupt conference and Stanford University.

Our goal is to gather active and enthusiastic students and create a unique opportunity to get to know Silicon Valley, understand it’s entrepreneurial spirit and bring back some of the success formula to fuel entrepreneurial growth in Finland.

Subscribe for more info and spread the word by sharing the page: http://thinkbig.aaltoes.com

17. OtaKoppi Season Opening, Thursday May 16th at 17:00

OtaKoppi starts the summer’s Finnish baseball season on Thursday, May 16th @ Tuuliniitty fied (Tuulikuja 10, Espoo). Everyone interested in Finnish baseball are welcome to play in good company! 🙂 Players of all levels and amateurs are welcome to participate in OtaKoppi’s activities. For more information log on to OtaKoppi’s website.