April | 29th Board

Here we go, the 5th month of the year! The weather is getting nicer and a few holidays are approaching. April was, how can it not be, again a busy month which we started with the announcement of our Candidate Board. I am so happy with these enthusiastic people and working together with them is amazing. The training is going well and we have a lot of fun together. With the training of CB, the end of my board year is also coming closer and that is kind of scary, this year went so fast. While training Javier and Burak, I am already thinking about how to fill my free hours next year, probably with Helix again 😉 

A lot of events happened as well in April, we started with an amazing COP in pirate theme. I loved the vibe of this party, the free shots and keg might helped with this. Also we’ve met the people that joining us on the Excursion during the infonight including afterdrinks. We also had the opportunity to meet our Old Boards during the Old Board drinks and ended the month with one of the nicest parties this year during the Neon Party of the Randwyck Committee. One of the biggest events I’ve organized but it was totally worth it. 

Of course we did some serious stuff as well. As Board we got the opportunity to follow a training regarding sexual harassment within association which was really useful. And the second committee GA took place as well. It was a really fast GA in which the committees got the chance to explain what they’ve been doing. The evaluations did also happen this month. We evaluated on the committees, the Board as group and each individual in the Board. So like a said, a busy month!

While I am writing this update in Prague with the Education Committee, I am thinking about all the nice stuff we are going to do in May. Wednesday we leave for the excursion to Budapest, the last Battle of Committees event is coming up as well as the first edition of a master only event! We will also have a karaoke evening and two events from the Education Committee. Oh and not to forget, the integration with our Brother Associations at two galas! Training and activities with CB will also take place of course. So a lot to do, let’s go for another month!

April went by soooo fast! We finally announced our amazing Candidate Board and we could not have been more proud. I am very glad that I don’t have to keep it a secret anymore (and so is Meike ;)) The trainings with Amadiez and Alicia will start soon, since Amadiez was only announced last week. With the announcement of CB and the second committee GA, not a lot of events took place during April. However, we still could experience the annual Family Day which was a lot of fun. Credits to the Family Day Committee for organizing this nice event. Moreover, we had COP V with a pirate theme. Everyone was so nicely dressed up and I believe everyone enjoyed themselves pretty much.

I had a meeting with all the committee treasurers to check upon their budgets and to brain storm about new ideas to fulfil the budget with, and trust me, amazing things are coming!

I also arranged some very exciting new sponsorships this month. I am therefore very happy to call Aethon and D’n Hiemel our new sponsors!

I am still very excited for the last two months, in which we will leave to Budapest with (in my opinion) the best committee (excursion whoopwhoop) and some more exciting events.

We also held the Old Board drinks on the 22th of April, which was a nice opportunity with some of Helix’ fossils 😉

The last two months are going to be very busy, but really exciting. Let’s go!

Another month again, the time goes fast… In April we finally announced our Candidate Board and we recently managed to get a Candidate Board of 6 people which I am really proud of! I started training Burak for the Vice position and I have also shown him an experience day and a BIC meeting already. About the experience day, we were finally allowed to show people our beautiful Helix room again. I noticed that people are way more interested in what we tell them about Helix when we can show them the pictures and the posters which was really nice. Also the BIC finally got a theme: Future Proof Biomedical Sciences. Now we are working on setting up a BIC foundation to make it official. Furthermore we had some very nice events this month and the GA. The GA went pretty well and fast this time. All committees had the opportunity to present themselves again and we had a couple of motions about the HR.  Together with Meike I founded the ski taskforce and this taskforce was introduced during the GA. Also, Family Day finally took place! It was a very successful day and we got a lot of good feedback from different families that they liked the day a lot. We organised it almost the same as previous years but let 1 extra practical out what made the day lengthwise perfect. Lastly, I had evaluations with all of my committees and with the Board. One and a half months left, let’s go!

Another month with again new meetings. I had my evaluations which were good. Something I started working on is making the lectures for the first year’s on campus again, since this is still not the case. Together with members of SEP1 we’ve send out a questionnaire to see how many first year’s would be interested. The SEP reports have been send out. I have been working for the SC on the event organised from the Nederlands Progamma Onderwijs (NPO). We had the GA, in which I got to introduce the ski taskforce, which is an idea of Kim and me and we are really excited about this. We are currently with 7 members, so we’re still in need of more! Signup if you are interested :). I have also been working on the SEP compensations. Furthermore, I’m really excited that we finally found a candidate for Head of Education, Dion! His training is going to start ASAP and I’m really looking forward to it. I think he and the other members of the CB will do great and I’m really excited for them :). In addition, I’m really excited for the events we will have upcoming month and of course the excursion!