It turns out I was well received as Digital Marketing Officer so I'm still here. There were a few other mixups in the WA IET YP Committee with only Israa remaining of the old guard as Chairperson. I would like to get a head start on the new committee and introduce our new Secretary: Ian Manton. Ian is an alumnus of the 2017 Leadership Programme where he was part of the CanStruction project, MC'd PATW, and featured loudly in the IET x Robogals Quiz Night. He was Merchandise Officer in the 2017 Committee, and, in addition to his secretary role, is Social Events and Welfare Coordinator in the 2018 Committee
Ian is a mechatronics student who joined the IET following a few friends from uni and hearing good things from them. He also heckled the host of the 2016 PATW with bad puns. Let's get to know Ian.
Why did you join the Committee?
After attending several IET run events and having a great time at them, I was invited to come along to a committee meeting and felt it was a great opportunity to set myself aside from every other engineering (soon to be graduate) and give back to the community.
Dogs or cats (or Ducks? Naked mole rats?)?
I like most animals…as long as they’re not overly dependent on my attention.
What is your guilty pleasure?
Watching Rom-Coms aka chick flicks (no not those kind of chick flicks Peta) at 2 am in the morning.
What is the nerdiest thing you do?
Get overly excited about the latest tech developments; I have a google news alert set up that shows me anything science/tech related in the mornings.
If you were a sandwich, what would you be?
I'd be the Earl of Sandwich; the actual inventor of them… can you imagine how rich I’d be?
What are your aspirations?
I'dlove to end up founding and running my own tech company, but if not I’d love to end up working towards aerospace. I'd love to be involved somehow in helping humanity get among the stars.
Reaching the stars is a lofty aspiration indeed.
What would people be surprised to find out about you?
That is spent about a year on a remotemine site as an emergency response team member
What are you a closet fan of?
Supernatural
Any secret skills?
I can name most songs (both artist and track title) just from listening to the first few bars of the song, comes in fairly handy for pub quizzes – demonstrated this at the IET quiz night haha
Who would win, Darth Vader or Gandalf the Grey?
Darth Vader!!!
Is your toilet paper under or over? If under, defend your incorrect position.
Actually, a bit OCD about the TP, if I'm somewhere and it’s under I have to fix it so that it’s the proper way around.
Thank you Ian! A good way to start our new look at the new committee. Don't worry because there are plenty of new faces to go through. We even have a sub-committee this year in charge of running the 2018 Leadership Programme that I intend to devote a special run of these little pieces to. All this and more is coming over the next year so please stick around, leave a like here and on Facebook, and thank you for reading.
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