Emily Marasco is in her fourth year of computer engineering and is also pursuing a music minor. She is very involved with undergraduate research for computer engineering applications in music education Emily is co-coordinator of Schulich Soundstage and teaches oboe lessons in her spare time.

The Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary welcomed students back with great Frosh Week events.

Each department was given one of the six frosh class blocks to sponsor, they were assigned a colour and a name. This year’s blocks and colours were Psi - yellow, Phi - purple, Rho - red, Omega - orange, Beta - blue and Gamma green. Departments chose various themes to help identify themselves to the frosh students, adding fun to friendly rivalry.

How the week developed…

Events began with the opening ceremonies and a parade around campus. Complete with costumes and banners, teams from all departments gathered to show their engineering spirit. This year’s themes varied from adventuresome pirates and Ninjas, to the psychedelic costumes and colours of the mechanical group.

Afterwards, students enjoyed a BBQ at the “Adopt-A-Frosh” event. This is were incoming engineering students are given the chance to meet students from other years, who happily pass on their tried-and-tested methods for surviving the first year.

Tuesday opened with chariot races. This event allows each team to build their own chariot, race it through a course while opposing teams throw questionable food at them. As you can guess it is very popular with spectators and draws an enthusiastic crowd. Following the race, students of all years formed teams to combine their trivia knowledge in the Quiz Heads competition.

Wednesday and Thursday gave students a chance to work out their midweek frustrations in athletic events like Keg Olympics and Tug-O-War. Each department gathered their strongest competitors on the fields to do battle.

Students later fired up their brains to compete in a debate. They also tested their motor skills in a Guitar Hero event. Afterwards, all celebrated their new friendships and triumphs with nachos at the campus pub, the Den.

Teams finished off the week with ENGG Gladiators and the annual Minotaur run through a labyrinth of the engineering faculties hallways. The evening improv competition let students show off their drama skills before the final celebrations began and frosh students were fully welcomed into the faculty.