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Submitted by: Riley MacArthur, ENVigorate Planning Assistant
It’s hard to believe our three-day Faculty of Environment celebration, ENVigorate, has wrapped up. With a variety of hands-on workshops and presentations given by Environment faculty members, students, and Waterloo Region community members, we came together as a community to learn about sustainability, climate activism, and other fun and important skills. Some of the highlights included the student-run Swap Shop and Student Showcase; events that are favourites among the festival fan-base.
The Swap Shop, an upcycling event where students donate an article of clothing to get a new article, received 200+ items this year. Meanwhile, the Student Showcase had submissions from across all the schools and departments within the faculty, providing insight into the wide variety of academic interests that students pursue.
Thank you to the Faulty of Environment community that showed support for this year’s festival and a special thank you to our opening and closing ceremony guests: Indigenous Knowledge Keeper Myeggun Henry, Dean Bruce Frayne, MP Mike Morrice, Jenna Phillips and Dr. Matthieu Feagan.
It’s a long wait until ENVigorate 2024, but follow @envigorate.uw on Instagram for updates and announcements on the best three days of the year.
