Current undergraduate students

In honour of Pride Month and our ongoing commitment to care, healing, and solidarity, you’re invited to a special two-part community experience on Wednesday, June 25, 2025:

New Beginnings: Pride Month Community Gathering

Hosted by: Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism (EDI-R)

Time: 12:30–1:00 PM (or while supplies last)

Location: Arts Quad (outside Dana Porter Library)

Start the afternoon with a gentle moment of reflection and hope. Pick up a free seedling — a living symbol of resilience and growth — and set an intention for a safer, more inclusive campus.

Pride Month Community Panel: Conditional Acceptance

Hosted by: University of Waterloo Library

Time: 1:00–2:30 PM

Location: Dana Porter Library, Learning Lab

Then, join us inside for an honest, meaningful panel discussion exploring the theme of Conditional Acceptance. Hear from students, staff, and faculty as they share real stories about navigating inclusion, and belonging on our campus.

All are welcome. Come for the Gathering, stay for the Panel — or join whichever feels right for you. Together, let’s honour the past, care for the present, and imagine an inclusive future.

As we meet this moment of social and ecological systemic unraveling, artificial intelligence stands as both a mirror and a symptom of modernity’s habits: control, mastery, and separation. This talk invites a different question: what is AI revealing about us, and what is collapsing through that revelation?

Drawing on decades of work in educational, decolonial, and post-representational relational inquiry, Vanessa Andreotti explores how Large Language Models (LLMs), when engaged from within an ontological shift (from epistemic regression to relational inference), rather than the logic of optimization, can become something else: a co-witness to social, ecological, and psychological destabilization, and a speculative co-weaver of life-affirming and Earth-aligned relationalities.

Join Velocity for an engaging AI simulated workplace where your mission is to understand the problems facing your team. Learn new skills to stand out and show your employers how you can go from Excellent to Outstanding in your next role. Gain the skills to enter to win part of the $7,250 available through the Velocity Co-op Problem Award.

Startup 101 is an information session where recent grads in the health care field discuss their journey on how they turned their ideas into health tech ventures.

The participants of the Shad Waterloo high school enrichment program are holding a public open house to share highlights of their experiences, including creative ideas they have come up with to tackle this year’s design project theme.

Shad is a STEAM summer enrichment experience for high school students from across Canada (and around the world!). During Shad, students develop skills such as understanding and solving problems, communicating effectively, thinking critically, and collaborating within teams through hands-on projects.

To learn more about the Shad program, please visit the Shad Canada website: https://www.shad.ca/

Haunting Melodies is an open mic night of dark, messy and truthful literature verses that go beyond words and dive into the depth of the human soul! We need poets and storytellers who are ready to unleash their grief, their rage, their heartbreak, their madness, their chaos, in a magnificent and ethereal combination of words or stories.

Join us to speak your truth on Friday, June 27th from 7:00 PM at Zanga studios. Doors open at 6:30 pm and no tickets sold at the door, passes available through eventbrite only. Contact yashika.vahi@gmail.com immediately for price waive-offs if required. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. We encourage all to wear vintage clothing and help us recreate an 18th century atmosphere.

Want to learn more about the Engineering Master’s and PhD programs offered at the University of Waterloo?

Join us for our in-person Graduate Studies Fair to have all your questions answered by Engineering faculty members, current grad students and admissions experts from each department!

The CareNext Collective is hosting a virtual event that shines a spotlight on the PREVENT Clinic – a pioneering initiative that challenges traditional care pathways and demonstrates what happens when practitioners coordinate across silos and intervene earlier to prevent cardiovascular disease.

Learn from the visionary team at Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN) who brought the clinic to life, including practitioners, partners and the patients whose lives have been positively impacted by this preventative approach to care.

The CareNext Collective is virtual forum facilitated by the CareNext Coalition, a unique partnership between the University of Waterloo and the Waterloo Regional Health Network. The coalition is committed to bringing together clinicians, researchers and entrepreneurs to create more innovative and integrated heath care systems.

This event explores the personal journeys of startup founders, with a focus on Tim Lichti, co-founder and CEO of a robotics company. It delves into how he founded his company and the significant shift in perspective that took him from being an art student to developing an entrepreneurial mindset. The session highlights the challenges, turning points, and insights gained throughout his transition and startup journey.

Join Velocity for an evening session to hear from a founder about their experience launching a company as a student from the University of Waterloo. There will be lots of time for questions so come prepared!

Tim Lichti, Co-Founder & CEO

Tim is a Co-Founder & CEO of Swap Robotics, a Kitchener-Waterloo based company that is the category creator of a solar robotics platform. The Economist magazine predicts that solar will become the world's #1 electricity source by the 2030's & #1 energy source overall by the 2040's. Meanwhile, VC's are saying the biggest bottleneck to AI & prosperity over the next 10 years is the ability to add new electricity to the grid quickly. Swap is speeding the transition to clean, domestic energy through its solar robotics platform, which enables utility-scale solar sites to be built & maintained faster, cheaper & more reliably. Use-cases include robotic materials staging on solar sites, robotic panel laying & robotic vegetation management. Swap Robotics has raised over $20 million CAD in venture capital to-date, mostly from several of the biggest players in the solar industry who understand Swap's technology lead in the space. Tim has built four businesses from $0 to at least six figures of revenue each & been named one of The Globe & Mail's Top 12 Innovators at Work.