This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 10/2015

Association-related issues can be found in the association newsletter. The newsletter is available at ayy.fi/yhdistystiedote

On this week’s Friday, 6 March, 11am-4pm, SPR’s blood donation will visit Dipoli in Otaniemi. Come and offer your helping hand!

1. This and next week’s events
2. Additional call for applications for the position of the intendant of the Technical Students’ Museum is ongoing!
3. Mosaic’s Café Lingua – Neptune’s realm
4. Apply for a project grant from TTE-Fund! DL for the next round: 22 Mar 2015
5. International tutors are needed!
6. One week left to plan a new logo for Mosaic
7. Apply for Humans vs Zombies committee
8. Apply for a farming plot from Aalto Garden in Ossinlampi
9. Radiodiodi is here again!
10. Students’ Beer Pong Championships 2015
11. Apply for Summer Program Abroad!
12. Aalto University’s Women’s Day seminar on 9 Mar
13. OFC organises a marshial arts course in Otaniemi!
14. Rehearsal game of FC Kissat against FC Femuri

1. This and next week’s events

Week 10

• Wed, 4 Mar – Eco-efficient Construction & Building Services Recruiting Event
• Wed, 4 Mar – Prayer night
• Thu, 5 Mar – Mosaic’s Café Lingua
• Thu, 5 Mar – Coastal skipper course begins
• Fri, 6 Mar – Aalto Sustainable Business Club annual Spring General Meeting
• Fri, 6 Mar – Blood donation at Dipoli
• Sun, 8 Mar – Spring market
• Sun, 8 Mar – New DL for Mosaic’s logo contest

Week 11

• Ma 9.3. – AEGEE-Helsinki after work movie night
• Ma 9.3. – Aalto University’s Women’s Day seminar
• Ke 11.3. – Tuomas Annola: Jeesus Vanhassa Testamentissa
• Ke 11.3. – ESN Aalto’s Lasertag #2
• Ke 11.3. – Annihilaatio
• To 12.3. – AVS Quadrokopterin lennätystä
• Pe 13.3. – ESN Aalto visits the Finnish Parliament
• La 14.3. – Fuusio 68 /blog/events/fuusio-68/
• La 14.3. – Salibandya: FLOB – M-Team II
• Su 15.3. – ESN Aalto goes to Pirates of the Baltic Sea!

2. Additional call for applications for the position of the intendant of the Technical Students’ Museum is ongoing!

The intendant is responsible for managing the museum section, which maintains, presents and develops the Technical Students’ Museum established in 1958 and its operations. The additional call for applications is open from 8am on 2 Mar until 8am on 8 Mar. If you have already applied for the position in the autumn of 2015 or in early 2015, you do not have to send a new application. For further information, please contact the Museum Director Tiina Metso (museo(at)ayy.fi, +358 50 520 9441) or Board Member Rosa Nylén (rosa.nylen(at)ayy.fi, +358414680457). The application form is available at https://lomake.ayy.fi/rekry/museo/

3. Mosaic’s Cafe Lingua – Neptune’s realm

Do you think that your language skills are a bit rusty? Would you like to learn how to talk like a native speaker or chat with people from all around the world? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then Café Lingua is definitely meant for you! Once every month, one of the lovely venues of Otaniemi will turn into a café hosting an open language exchange event, the Café Lingua. All the the cafés will have an unique theme.

People interested in a certain language will gather around the same table to talk in that language with native speakers. The point is to practice languages in small groups, meet people, learn about cultures and enjoy a cup of coffee or other refreshment! When you arrive to the café, find a table of your interest or start a new one. All languages and skill levels are warmly welcome!

This time Mosaic brings out the submarines and tridents when Cafe Lingua goes underwater on the 5th of March. Join us in an adventure into Neptune’s realm full of marine wonders at Rantasauna and meet fellow adventurers in the spirit of Cafe Lingua. Tea, coffee and not-that-fishy treats will also be served.

• WHAT: Mosaic’s Cafe Lingua – Neptune’s realm
• WHEN: Thursday, 5 March, 6pm-10pm
• WHERE: Rantasauna, Otaniemi
• HOW MUCH: Free of charge
• WHY: Meet other (marine) mammals and learn their languages!
• FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/408391996005271/

4. Apply for a project grant from TTE-Fund! DL for the next round is 22 Mar 2015 

The second application round of TTE-Fund in 2015 is open! The fund may grant financial aid for all AYY members and the association within it. TTE-Fund supports visible activities that reach for the stars and make other people excited.

You can apply for grants from TTE-Fund in two ways: through the application rounds arranged approximately three times a year and through the continuous application period which is open during the academic terms. During the continuous application period, you can apply for the grants with the maximum of €2000, whereas the amount of project grants during the actual application rounds is not limited.

The second application round of 2015 will end on Sunday, 22 March 2015, at 11.59pm. Instructions for the application and its attachments are available on the website of the fund at http://tter.ayy.fi/. The grant can be applied for with an online form which is available at: https://lomake.ayy.fi/tter/hakulomake/

Deadlines for the application rounds and other additional information is available on TTE-Fund’s website at http://tter.ayy.fi/. Also check out the facebook site at www.facebook.com/tterahasto.

5. International tutors are needed!

Do you want to help international students to get a smooth start in their studies and guide them through student life at Aalto University? Would you like to try your intercultural skills in practice?

International tutors have a very important role in leading an international group, showing them around the campus and holding get-togethers. Tutors get to know new cultures, make new friends and have a great time! Tutors can also get a credit point, tutor certificate and reimbursement for the expenses.

More information about international tutoring can be found from AYY webpage.

Enthusiastic international tutors are searched right now. Student associations coordinate tutoring together with Aalto schools (CHEM, ELEC, ENG and SCI, BIZ and ARTS). You find the tutor recruiting forms of different associations HERE.

6. One week left to design a new logo for Mosaic

Mosaic challenges all Aalto members to a great contest! Our logo needs to be renovated in order to better reflect the issues that are important for Mosaic: the exchange of ideas, world views and opinions between nations and cultures. How can we fit all this in one picture? This is an assignment and challenge for you!

Use your favourite tools to design a logo which, in your opinion, reflects the internal essence of Mosaic and send the logo by email to mosaic@list.ayy.fi with your contact details. When designing the logo, please use vector graphics. Please submit your entry by Sunday, 8 Mar, 11.59pm. After this, Mosaic and AYY’s internationality sector will evaluate the entries. The winner will receive eternal honour, in addition to which the main prize includes two VIP tickets to the international sitsit and two movie tickets to Finnkino. The second prize also includes cinema tickets. AYY reserves the right to edit and use the logo as it considers suitable.

7. Apply for Humans vs Zombies committee

Aalto Community Section Aava will organise the greatly popular Humans vs Zombies event again this spring. The event planning and organising require plenty of manpower and good ideas.  Therefore, a new committee is recruited this year to help Aava. If you like people, zombies, the organising of major events, innovations or cute kittens, you should definitely get involved! The committee is also a good way to get to know the activities of Aava and the entire AYY. Come and make the next Humans vs Zombies even more epic!

Please send an informal application to matti.suominen@ayy.fi by Mon, 9 Mar. Please tell us who you are and whether you have previously organised HvZ, in how many HvZ events you have participated, why you would be a good member of the committee, are you interested in organising the event both in the spring and in the autumn. In addition, you get additional points for good ideas and suggestions for improvement in relation to the plot or the overall conduct of the event, for example.

8. Apply for a farming plot from Aalto Garden in Ossinlampi 

Would you like to get local food from Otaniemi? Maybe grab herbs and a few tomatoes on your way home or during a lunch break? Maybe grow something special to eat? If you are interested, rent a farming plot from Otaniemi for the summer!

Otaniemi urban farming association rents farming plots in Martti Levón Park (next to Ossinlampi) in Otaniemi. The association promotes and develops urban farming activities and gardening among employees, students and associations at Aalto University. A total of 45 plots are allocated and the plot sizes range from 7-24 square metres.

After the first harvest season, there will be additional fertilisation which allows for better organic farming. A variery of tools are available for farmers to share.

So act now or no later than 22 Mar 2015. Further information (e.g. plot rents) and the application form are available at http://tinyurl.com/aaltogarden

9. Radiodiodi is here again!

Radiodiodi is here again in April! Are you interested in making a radio programme or do you have a great idea that you would like to share with other students? In the previous years, there have been radio programmes about endangered frogs, NHL hockey to excellent discussion programmes. The broadcast is ongoing around the clock on 20-30 Apr, so there is a suitable time for everyone.

Come and hear more in the recruitment sauna of Radiodiodi at Ossinlinna from 6pm onwards on Friday, 13 Mar (https://www.facebook.com/events/803776816344413) or get more information directly from Chief Editor Jere (paatoimittaja@radiodiodi.fi / radiodiodi.fi /facebook.com/radiodiodi)

10. The Students’ Beer Pong Championships 2015

The Students’ Beer Pong Championships is here again! Aalto Beer Pong is organizing their largest tournament of the year during Easter holidays, on Good Friday, 3 April. Smökki has never seen total amount of 84 teams at once trying to achieve the title of a Beer Pong Champion!

The tournament sign-up opens exactly one month before the event, on 3 March at 4:00 PM in http://abp.ayy.fi/ and the registration is binding.

Facebook-event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1453023398321031

11. Apply for Summer Program Abroad!

We at AIESEC offer you a unique alternative, maybe something you have never heard or thought about. Together with Poland, Uganda, Colombia, Greece and the Philippines we are organizing social internships, one could also describe them as volunteering abroad. If you would like to start your adventure abroad in May or June this year, you have until 4th of March to apply through the following: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ocRFdyhsf4WCsNnIQbw-wg4X16jktYfPVHymivSDcj8/viewform

We will then get back to you as soon as possible and invite you for a meeting to help you find your dream internship and destination. We’re looking forward to hearing from you soon!

For further information please contact Mira Mielonen at mire.mielonen@aiesec.net OR Zarrin Fatima at zarrin.fatima@aiesec.net

12. Aalto University’s Women’s Day seminar on 9 Mar

Welcome to Aalto University’s traditional Women’s Day event on Otaniemi Campus. The seminar starts at 8.15am with breakfast and at 8.45am with inspiring speeches about different forms of entrepreneurship.

The seminar is opened by Aalto University’s Vice President Tuija Pulkkinen and Aalto University’s student Marianne Vikkula tells about her experiences in entrepreneurship in major companies and the SLUSH conference.

In the event, D.Sc. (Econ.) Charlotta Sirén, post-doc researcher of entrepreneurship talks about hybrid entrepreneurship and our alumna Karla Nieminen who owns the company Jäänmurtajat talks about practical entrepreneurship.

Sign up through this link. https://alumninet.aalto.fi/Portal/Public/Event/Apply.aspx?EventID=478

Speaker presentations: http://www.aalto.fi/fi/current/events/naistenpaiva2015/

13. OFC organizes a martial arts course in Otaniemi!

Otaniemi Fight Club organizes a series of trainings on muay thai and submission wrestling and possibly a few on Hokutoryu jujutsu in Otaniemi. Everyone is welcome to try it out. Read more about the course and register online: http://ofc.ayy.fi/pgs/course.php

14. Rehearsal game of FC Kissat against FC Femuri

FC Kissat, the women’s football team of Aalto School of Economics organises a rehearsal match against the team of the Faculty of Medicine FC Femuri. The match is organised at Lehtikuusentie Field at 5pm on Sunday, 8 March. Come and join the rehearsal!

Please sign up no later than Thu, 5 Mar and get further information: fckissat@gmail.com.
The latest news of FC Kissat are available on Facebook group FC Kissat. Futsal rehearsals continue on Thursdays, 7.30pm-9pm in the multi-purpose building in Viikki until the end of April.