ait su newsletter (january 2016)

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SU EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

A I T S T U D E N T U N I O N N E W S L E T T E R – J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 6

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MESSAGE FROM THE SU PRESIDENT

I pen this message with greater responsibility to

serve the student community and make the AIT

campus life pleasant and a memorable one. First of

all, I would like to welcome all our new friends to

AIT. Student Union of January. Student Union

January 2016 is a bunch of energec and dedicated

individuals who work with passion to create a

friendly, lively and healthy environment that is

lled with fun and excitement.

SU provides a solid plaorm for all the students to

implement collaborave work plans for the welfare

of the community. This semester, along with givingconnuity to the exisng SU events, we will be

organizing some new ones as well. I encourage all

the community members to join in our acvies

and contribute to success. I also take this

opportunity to thank the SU organizers, volunteers

and the parcipants for their acve engagement in

a wide variees of events this semester.

Have a great year ahead!!!

JAYASINGAM ADHURAN SU President

INSIDE >>>

Welcome Games

Welcome Dinner Party

Welcome Trip


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STUDENT PICKUP SERVICE

Student Union Accommodaon and Reservaon

Commiee arranged a pick-up service for the new

students coming from various parts of the world to

pursue their post graduate studies at Asian Instute

of Technology (AIT). Pick-up services were arranged

for over 90 new students from 1st

to 3rd

of January

2016 from Suvarnabhumi Internaonal Airport,

Bangkok.

Volunteers of SU Accommodaon and Reservaons

commiee were present at the airport to greet the

new students and pick them up. Aer the pick up,

the new students were alloed with temporary

rooms inside the campus.

ACCOMODATION LOTTERY & CAMPUS WALK

SU Accommodaon and Reservaon commiee

together with AIT Accommodaon Oce organized

the accommodaon loery for newly joined AITians

on 4th

of January 2016. Students had to pick a loery

number from a box and they were then allocated on

the basis of their loery number.

Aer the room allocaon, SU Campus and

Environment commiee had organized a campus walk

for all new students. The campus tour was organized

to acquaint the students with the prime locaons and

landmarks of the campus. Students walked around

the campus exploring dierent cafeterias, classrooms,

grounds and play-courts and other key areas.

ORIENTATION DAY

AIT administraon arranged the orientaon day for

new students on 5th

January 2016 in AITCC. The

Deans of dierent schools at AIT, VPAA and SU

president welcomed and briefed the student about

the academic and non-academic life at AIT.


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WELCOME GAMES

The SU Sports Commiee organized welcome games for newly

joined AITians on 12th

January 2016 at the AIT main grounds.

Main aim of this event was to develop the harmony between

new students and to introduce them to sports acvies inside

the campus. The event consisted of exing games such as Touch

Rugby, Futsal and Dodgeball. Over 80 new and old students

parcipated in this event. The highlight of the Welcome Games

was Dodgeball that drew the aenon of many students and

was enjoyed by everyone.

WELCOME DINNER PARTY

Welcome dinner party for new students was held on 15th

January 2016. A

total of 95 new students parcipated in the event. The party started at 6:30

pm with the welcome speech followed by SU members introducon,

internaonal group dance, games, Bollywood style dance, group song by

Thailand Student Associaon band and the crowning of Mr & Miss fresher.

The formal event was followed by a party at SU Cafe organized by SU Assets

and Recreaon.


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SU PERFORMANCE DURING WINTER CAMP CLOSING CEREMONY

Student Union exhibited the diversity of our

student community during the cultural night of

the winter camp conducted for students from JIS

group of Instuons and Assam down town

university, India on the 13th

of January 2016, atAIT conference center.

CARRIER TALKS

Maintaining good relaonship with companies is es-

senal for placement. Career center in collaboraon

with SU External aairs organizes career talk

throughout the semester for the students. Up to

February 12, 2016, career center organized four

career talks with the parcipaon of Siam Cement

Group, Kozo Keikaku Engineering, Double A PLC and

MFEC Public Co. Ltd. In each career talk session

companies announced available opportunies for

graduang students as well as provided guideline on

career build up.


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THAI LANGUAGE SURVIVAL CLASS

SU Academic Aairs commiee organized a basic

Thai Language course conducted by Mr. Kamon

Ruengdet. It was a four-session course held from

19th to 28th January 2016. Around 100 studentsregistered for the said course while up to 70 came

for the class. Parcipants’ interest was developed

through dierent games, while a quiz was also

conducted at the end for evaluaon. Students who

aended are believed to manage the roune works

in a beer way while engaging with local Thai

people.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR JANUARY 2016 SEMESTER

The 1st

General Assembly (GA) Meeng for the

January 2016 semester was held on 20th

January

2016 at Korea House from 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM.

There are 29 GA members from country associaons

and eld of studies, who registered in January 2016

Semester. Twenty two out of twenty nine GA mem-

bers showed their presence in the meeng. The 1st

GA meeng was conducted as per the following

agenda, The SU President, Mr. Jayasingam Adhuran,delivered the welcome speech to GA Members and

updated the GA Members regarding iniaves taken

by SU team, future plans of SU Team and updates

from Student Union Oce. The approval of

proposed commiee members and budgets of commiees were approved by GA followed by a buet. On the

second half of the meeng, the representave students raised their issues and discussed with SU President.

The meeng was then adjourned with a group photo of all SU team members along with the GA members.


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WELCOME MOVIE

SU Film and Entertainment Commiee organized the

Welcome Movie- “Cop Out” on 25th

January, 2016

(Monday) for all the new students of January 2016 at

Milton Bender Auditorium. This event was anopportunity to all the new students to meet with

new friends and give a sense of warm welcome by

SU as they will be new to AIT. The event started

from 7:00 PM and completed at 9:00 PM. More than

80 people parcipated in the event including the

volunteers.

The SU Film and Entertainment team entertained

the audience with a queson and answer session

before and aer the movie, where exing gis were given to students who answered the quesons correctly.

Aer the movie had six rae draws were held to select the winners of with the four gis and two Grand Prizes

of 3D Movie Tickets.

SU TEAM MEETS THE AIT PRESIDENT

The newly approved Student Union team was invited to the management meeng held on 21st

January in the Ad-

ministraon building. In this meeng the SU team was introduced to the AIT president by the SU president. Several

important student issues were discussed in this meeng.


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VISIT TO MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY JOB FAIR

A visit to Mahidol University Internaonal College

job fair was organized by SU External Aairs

Commiee on 28th

January 2016. Over 30

parcipants who were preregistered took part in this

event. Through this visit AITians had the

opportunity to discuss their career prospects with

the leading companies in Thailand. Several spot

interviews also held at this career fair.

REVEAL YOUR TRUE POTENTIAL

SU Academic Aairs commiee organized a movaon seminar named “Reveal

Your True Potenal” delivered by Ms. Amelie Yan Goues on 29th

January 2016.

Ms. Amelie Yan Goues is cered and accredited Associate Cered Coach

by the Internaonal Coach Federaon and accredited member of the Asia

Speakers Associaon. This seminar was dierent from our technology basedtradional talks covering movaon and stress management issues. Around 80

students were present at this event.


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DJ BATTLE

SU Assets and Recreaon Commiee organized a DJ

Compeon named “DJ Bale” on 29th

January 2016

at SU Café. The main purpose of this event was to

create a plaorm for talented DJ arsts in AIT to

showcase their abilies and to create a fun and

enjoyable environment for all music lovers. Seven

contestants parcipated for the DJ compeon

where each contestant got 10 minutes to showcase

their talents. The top three DJs were presented with

cash prizes and the opportunity to perform in up

coming SU Café pares .

BICYCLE RENTAL SERVICE

SU Campus and Environment commiee with the

cooperaon of the AIT Alumni Associaon

implemented a bicycle rental service for the

convenience of the students, sta, alumni, residents

and also outsiders. This service commenced on 5th

of

January 2016. The rental charges are for student and

sta - 100 THB/day, for residents and alumni- 15 THB/

day, for outsiders- 20 THB/day and the refundable

deposit- 1000 THB. This system was a great benet to

most of the people in the AIT community.


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MINI MARATHON & SLOW BICYCLE RACE

The Sports Commiee of the Student Union

organized slow bicycle race and mini marathon

on the 5th

February 2016. Both the events had

2 categories Female + Children and Male. The

event saw the parcipaon of a huge number

of people from the AIT community. Following

this, the winners for the two events were

presented with medals, cercates and

trophies.

T-shirts and cercates were given to rst 20

female and rst 40 males nishers of the mini

marathon.


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WELCOME TRIP

The Welcome Trip organized by the SU Leisure

team was held on 6th

February 2016. Welcome trip

was organized as a one day trip to Dream World

theme park. Over 100 new students joined this

trip. Breakfast for the parcipants were served on

the way to the Dream World. Breakfast included

sandwich and the brownies, from the UFM Bakery

Shop. At the theme park students had the

opportunity to experience many rides and shows

such as Sky Coaster, Raptor, Vikings, Hurricane,

Tornado and so on.

A buet lunch was served for all the parcipants

from the Dream World Theme park. Aerexperiencing all the fun and the excitement

welcome trippers returned to AIT around 7.00 pm.


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