From the perspective of the volunteer who helped make this event a reality!
My name is Julian Goh and I am a recent chemical engineering graduate from Curtin University. Despite going through four years of university and hearing about the IET, it was only a month ago when I attended my first IET WA YP committee meeting in April. From there I volunteered to undergo a trial by fire which was to organise a day of Lifeskills workshops designed to engage and provide values to unsuccessful Leadership Program 2017 candidates. At the end of the meeting, I was given a succinct summary from Peta Blight of the rough steps I had to take to get everything together and from that point onwards it was up to me to make it happen.
A challenge arose in the final week when there were less than 3 sign ups. I decided to bring it up in the May committee meeting. A collective decision was made at the meeting to open up the workshop to other university students who might be interested and able to attend. Over the next few days, sign-ups quickly rose from 3 to 12 which meant that the workshop could actually take place and it was amazing to see this happen directly as a result of the effort and support by the committee towards the event.
On the day of the workshop, everything went smoothly and 7 students were able to participate in a Leading and Developing Teams workshop and a Fundamentals of Project Management workshop over the day. Special thanks to Peta Blight, Tao He, Israa Elsayed and David Kelly for supporting the event and for being excellent presenters and mentors during the day.
Julian
General Committee
Julian
General Committee