ait su newsletter (january 2016)
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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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