Weekly Newsletter 21/2013

This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 21/2013

This is the third last newsletter of the spring. Good luck to the last exams and other last projects of the spring!

P.S. Have you already gotten yourself a super fine AYY hoodie and t-shirt from AYY Shop?

This and next week’s events
AYY’s housing regulations to change on 1 June 2013!
Submit your events for AYY’s academic year calendar 2013-2014
Nyyti’s loneliness online group was launched
FSHS’s New website on sexual health and contraception
Aalto School of Students needs teachers!
PARTICIPATE IN THE MAKING OF ESPOO CINÉ FESTIVAL!
Premiere of The Heat film on Mon, 27 May
Apply for the mentoring programme!
Startup Weekend Helsinki 24-26 May @ Open Innovation House
Guest Lecture – Jay B. Barney: What is Strategic Management
Join the sailing demonstrations of Teekkaripurjehtijat
OSM Baseball 2013

1. This and next week’s events

Week 21

Wed, 22 May onwards – Sailing demonstrations

Week 22

Mon, 27 May – Premiere of The Heat film
Thu, 30 May – AEGEE-Helsinki goes to Pihlajasaari

2. AYY’s housing regulations to change on 1 June 2013!

AYY’s Representative Council has approved AYY’s new housing regulations on 14 May 2013. The housing regulations guide the entire housing activities of AYY and have effect on all members who apply for AYYs apartments or already live in AYY’s apartments. New regulations will enter into force on 1 June 2013 and thus have effect on the housing applications of new freshmen in the autumn. The housing section on AYY’s website will be updated in the next few days. Read about the most important changes and the entire regulations here.

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. Nyyti’s loneliness online group was launched

What are your own experiences of loneliness? What does loneliness mean to you? What kind of feelings are related to it? And how would you like your situation to change? Have you perhaps already found some ways to the change?

Join the discussion and share your thoughts and feelings, and discuss loneliness with others in a similar situation in life. You can participate in the discussion just as you are and according to your own resources.

Loneliness group of the summer 2013 has been opened on Monday, 13 May at 12noon and the discussion continues until 16 Aug.

Anyone can read the group, you need to register to write comments.

https://www.nyyti.fi/nettiryhmat/

5. FSHS’s New website on sexual health and contraception

Sexuality, relationships and sexual health are important questions for young adults, and many students wish to discuss these matters with a health care professional. FSHS has collected information on a range of matters from contraception to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) on a separate Sexual health and contraception website. Visit the site to find out more and look for answers to your questions.

You can also take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section and search earlier replies given by our online advice service (in Finnish). Alternatively, send a new question to our experts via the online advice service.

Yths.fi/en > Sexual health and contraception

yths.fi/en > Health counselling -Online service

6. Aalto School of Students needs teachers!

What makes you tick and gets you excited? Is it the workings of the brain or drawing what you see in just a few strokes? Or maybe guerilla marketing or crafting origami? Could you share this amazing thing with fellow students?

If you answered yes to the last question, you are just the person we are looking for! On 14 September (at Aalto Design Factory), we are arranging Aalto School of Students, a guerilla learning experience where students will teach / instruct other students in a topic which interests them. You don’t need to know everything about your topic, as your pupils will be beginners themselves. Enthusiasm and willingness to share something you think is awesome is the key. You can teach in English, Finnish or Swedish.

If you think you have what it takes to be a teacher in Aalto School of Students, contact us with a brief pitch of what you would like to teach and we will get back to you. If you just want to come as a student, keep your eyes open as registration for students opens after we have confirmed which classes we will be able to offer.

Got some questions? Contact us at aaltoschoolofstudents@gmail.com or check out our tumblr site (updating all the time!) at aalto-school-of-students.tumblr.com

7. PARTICIPATE IN THE MAKING OF ESPOO CINÉ FESTIVAL!

Every year, a large group of volunteers participate in the making of Espoo Ciné Film Festival (16-25 Aug 2013), without whom the festival would simply not exist. Voluntary workers get to see the festival films for free, have free meals every day, get a staff t-shirt and the festival catalogue, as well as a letter of reference at request. And when the festival is over, there is a party for the volunteers. Many volunteers have such a good time that they come back year after year to build this warm-hearted festival together.

Join the hustle of the first film festival of the autumn, and go behind the scenes to look how the film festival with 25,000 visitors is organised. Tasks vary from ticket sales to info desk and decorating. You can participate as long as you are over 18-years old, have an active attitude and you are willing to sacrifice your time in good company. Help is needed particularly during the festival, but also a few weeks before it.

Further information and registration form are available at: http://www.espoocine.fi/2013/talkoolaiset.

8. Premiere of The Heat film on Mon, 27 May

Participate in the premiere of The Heat film at Kino Andorra (Eerikinkatu 11, 00100 Helsinki) at 6pm on 27 May organised by KY’s film club Tikelo and the film distributor SF Film Finland. The event is free and open to all students regardless of their place of study, so you can also invite your friends who do not study at Aalto. Participation only requires responding to a brief survey after the screening. The survey aims to find out the opinions of the audience about the film.

Binding registrations with the form at http://goo.gl/bAmbK

Further information at https://www.facebook.com/Tikeloskynet

9. 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

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. 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.

12. Join the sailing demonstrations of Teekkaripurjehtijat

Are you interested in sailing? Would you like to try it out? Join the sailing demonstrations of Teekkari Sailors, more familiarly known as TRIP!

Sailing demonstrations are particularly designed for new students and other students interested in our activities who are not yet members of TRIP. Sailing demonstrations are free and you can participate without any previous sailing experience. Demonstrations are mostly organised in the evenings. Skipper and helmsman participate in the demonstration. 4-5 persons can participate in one demonstration where you raise the sails and sail adjacent waters for a few hours. Usually there is an opportunity to go ashore to an island or Suomenlinna.

Further information and registration link can be found by following the link to TRIP’s website http://trip.ayy.fi/wordpress/?page_id=200

The entire TRIP Board cordially welcomes you to sail!

13. OSM Baseball 2013

This year, students’ Finnish championship baseball games are arranged in Pori! The Student Union

SAMMAKKO will organise the games at Pori Sports Centre on 21–22 Sept 2013. Over the weekend, there are more laid-back games in the amateur league and more serious ones in the competitive category. The games are aimed at all higher education students, regardless of age, gender or skills. Welcome!

Further information and registration here.
Event on facebook.

joonas.laukkanen@sammakko.fi