This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 15/2014

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

The traditional AYY’s wappu.fi site will tell you again what you should do on May Day! Add your event to the list or collect the best tips into your own calendar. Share your May Day photos or updates in social media by using the hashtag #AaltoWappu and win AYY Shop products!

Have a great May Day season!

1. This and next week’s events
2. Apply for Otaniemi Regional Planning Working Group!
3. Share your May Day photos or status with hashtag #AaltoWappu and win AYY Shop products
4. Come bungee jump and run the Akateeminen Wartti on the 22nd April
5. Student day at Kiasma, Fri, 25 Apr, 10am-8.30pm
6. Beer Pong Finnish Championships
7. Humans vs Zombies in Otaniemi on 9-10 May
8. Registration for sailing courses is now open!
9. Opening of Julkku season, Sat, 12 Apr @ Smökki Terrace

1. This and next week’s events

Week 15

• Mon, 7 Apr – Women’s career paths in the field of engineering
• Mon, 7 Apr – AEGEE-Helsinki Board Game Night @ Cafe Mascot
• Tue, 8 Apr – President’s Aalto coffee
• Tue, 8 Apr – ADS’s debate night for newcomers
• Tue, 8 Apr – Aalto in the Game –game industry recruitment event
• Ti 8.4. – Restraining climate change and economic growth – an impossible combination?
• Wed, 9 Apr – Game night
• Thu, 10 Apr – Welcome lectures of new professors
• Sat, 12 Apr – Opening of Julkku season
• Sat, 12 Apr – Terwaspeksi of Medical Guild in Oulu
• Sat, 12 Apr – Spring concert of Polytech Orchestra
• Sat, 12 Apr – ESN Aalto presents Beer Pong tournament

Week 16

• Mon, 14 Apr – ESN Aalto presents Movie Night
• Tue, 15 Apr – Café Lingua
• Wed, 16 Apr – AYY’s Representative Council meeting 6/2014
• Thu,  17 Apr – Fifth Period Jungle rave by KY-Sub
• Fri, 18 Apr – Students’ Beer Pong Finnish Championships
• Sat, 19 Apr – Role game day

2. Apply for Otaniemi Regional Planning Working Group!

Otaniemi will have major changes and development ahead. As a major operator in the area, the Student Union has the opportunity to influence the final content of Otaniemi land use, as well as the development of entire Otaniemi. The Student Union’s most important objectives are to increase student housing, develop services in Otaniemi and secure good public transport connections. The working group’s task is to produce concrete proposals in order to implement these objectives in urban planning. The Student Union will present the proposals of the working group to the city planning commission and the chief planners of the City Planning Department, among others.

AYY is looking for AYY’s members who are interested in city planning to participate in Otaniemi Regional Planning Working Group. The working group members are expected to have basic understanding of land use planning. The knowledge of community planning, land use planning and/or traffic engineering, studies and experience in the field are considered an advantage. We aim at having a diverse working group, where different points of view are represented.

The working group members are expected to be interested in Otaniemi planning process and commit themselves to the working group. The working group members are expected to participate in meetings (once a month). In addition, the working group members are expected to work slightly more (approx. 2-3 workshops) in May, as there are only 30 weekdays to make comments and submit amendment proposals on the draft plan of Otaniemi Center area from the publication of the plan. The term will last until the end of the year 2014, after which the future of the working group will be decided separately. The working language is Finnish.

You can apply at: https://lomake.ayy.fi/asuminen/hakulomake-otaniemen-aluesuunnittelun-tyoryhmaan/

Further information on the working groups and its activities is available on AYY’s website at ayy.fi/blog/2014/04/07/hae-mukaan-otaniemen-aluesuunnittelun-tyoryhmaan/ (in Finnish) or from AYY Board Member Pyry Haahtela (040 480 8627 / pyry.haahtela@ayy.fi)

3. Share your May Day photos or status with hashtag #AaltoWappu and win AYY Shop products

May Day is approaching fast! An enormous number of events will be organised in Aalto community over the coming weeks and AYY wants to see what your May Day looks like. AYY declares open the competition where the purpose is to share May Day photos or updates in social media. Publish your photos or updates with the hashtag #AaltoWappu on facebook, instagram and/or twitter and participate in the competition. The competition period is from 00:01am, Thu, 10 Apr until 11.59pm on 1 May.

Winners will be announced after May Day in week 19 and the winning photos and updates will be shared on AYY’s facebook site. You can also enter the competition by sending your photos by e-mail to tiedottaja@ayy.fi.

AYY rewads the best May Day photos and updates with AYY hoodies and t-shirts. Winners will be notified personally.

P.S. AYY’s wappu.fi site is open! Add your own event to the calendar and see what you should do on May Day. Have a great May Day season!

4. Come bungee jump and run the Akateeminen Wartti on the 22nd April

Aava 2014 will organize the 64th Academic Quarter at Alvari Square in Otaniemi on 22 Apr 2014.
Academic Quarter is the higher education students’ laid-back and action-packed relay race, where teams will try to proceed as far as possible in 15 minutes.

In the event, you will also get to see a phenomenal dance show, enjoy music and jump a bungee jump! If you are too scared of the 50-metre tower, you can also jump around in a safe and familiar bouncy castle.

ADMISSION FEES FOR RACE CATEGORIES:

• FUN: EUR 10/team
• COMPETITIVE: EUR 24/team
• CIGAR: EUR 60/team
• BUNGEE FEE: ONLY EUR 35

When we have finished all the running and jumping, it is time to go to Bada Bing of the Chemistry Guild’s PreWappu in Tapiola.

• Sign up for the bungee jump: http://lomake.ayy.fi/aava/?p=1026
• Sign up for the race: http://lomake.ayy.fi/aava/?p=1028
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/635313819856253/

5. Student day at Kiasma, Fri, 25 Apr, 10am-8.30pm

Free admission with a student card.

Kiasma offers students free admission to explore the art of internationally recognised Alfredo Jaar and Kiasma Hits exhibition, as well as Là-bas performance biennial at Kiasma Theatre on Friday, 25 Apr. The student day includes, among other things, debate tours in exhibitions and Artist Amal Laala’s Design Your Opinion workshop.

Further information: http://www.kiasma.fi/tapahtumat-ja-luennot/opiskelijapaiva.

6 Beer Pong Finnish Championships

The students’ Beer Pong Championships are here again! Aalto Beer Pong will organise their largest tournament of the year during Easter holidays, on Good Friday, 18 April. Smökki has never seen this many beer pong players at once trying to achieve the title of the Beer Pong Champion!
Sign up for the tournament at http://abp.ayy.fi/tournament-sign-up/ , the registration is binding.
The tournament costs EUR6/team which does not include the game drinks. The event takes place in Otaniemi Smökki, Jämeräntaival 4, Espoo

The May Day atmosphere is sponsored by Julkku!
Link to FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1484711858415328/?notif_t=plan_user_invited

7. Humans vs Zombies in Otaniemi on 9-10 May 

Zombies are here again! Aalto’s first-ever Humans vs Zombies game was organised last autumn. The group of two hundred players took over Otaniemi in the zombie revolution. Now is the time for humans to gather their troops and start the resistance.

Physicist Guild and Aalto Community Section Aava will organise Humans vs Zombies game in Otaniemi on the second weekend in May. The event is open and free to all. There will be tough battles, unexpected events and memorable experiences with old and new friends. So do not miss the most interesting adventure of the spring, read more at http://www.fyysikkokilta.fi/zombi/ and sign up.

8. Registration for sailing courses is now open!

Do you want to learn to sail? Participate in the sailor or first mate course of Teekkaripurjehtijat!

In the sailing course, you will learn how to manage the boat, lift, lower and adjust sails, safety issues and convenience factors. You do not need to know anything about sailing in advance. If you already have some sailing experience or have taken the sailor course already, you can continue learning in the first mate course.

The course consists of theory sessions on Tue, 22 Apr and Wed, 23 Apr between 5pm-9pm in Otaniemi and practical training in the boat. Practical training sessions are organised in groups on weekends in May-June.

Further information and registration: http://trip.ayy.fi/wordpress/?page_id=231

Course price for Trip members: students €200, graduates €350
Membership: AYY members €20, other students €25, graduates €40

9. Opening of Julkku season, Sat, 12 Apr @ Smökki Terrace

This year, May Day will begin after the exam week in the opening of Julkku season on Saturday, 12 Apr, 1pm-6pm!

Come to the terrace in front of Smökki to enjoy the sun, music, May Day spirit, and bathe and wash your sins away!

At the location, you can make Julkku deals, after which you can wear your brand new sales shirt, put the dazzling Julkku sunglasses on your head, sew ”Julkku seller 2014” overall badge on your overalls and enjoy the organic refreshments of Saimaan Juomatehdas and Julkku’s catering.