GEER Week 81
Theme: High School Musical
GEER Week is an annual series of events in the second week of January that celebrates the culture engineering students have developed as a faculty over the last hundred years. The goal of GEER Week is to foster a sense of community and pride in students while providing them with the opportunity to participate in activities not directly related to their degree. From large team exercises such as dodgeball, to artistic ventures such as movie night, GEER Week is packed with activities for all to enjoy.
All ten discipline clubs embrace a chosen theme for the week and compete in a variety of events, all in hopes of being crowned GEER Week Champions!
Previous themes have included: House of the Beaver, My ChemE Romance, The GEERate Kid, Let’s get Engg Physical, CivE-Doo, and more!
Ticketed events include: Opening Ceremonies, Mixology, Are you Smarter Than a First Year, Drag Show, Spelling Bee, Battle of the Bands, and The Engineers' Banquet.
Tickets will need to picked up at either the GEER Store or Event Venue. Ticket pickups will stop 30 minutes after the start of the event, so please arrive as early as possible to pick them up.
All participants are required to sign a Digital Waiver (if they are over the age of 18) OR have their legal guardian sign a Digital Informed Consent Form (if they are under 18) in order to attend and participate in GEER Week events. Please note that there will be no physical waivers.
Events
Friday, January 12th 2024
GEER Week 81 Overview Forum
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: ECERF W2-090 & W2-110
This is the overview and public forum for GEER Week - allowing participants and audience members to learn more about the events of GEER Week and for them to get the chance to ask any event-related questions
Saturday, January 13th 2024
Tech Display
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Telus World of Science Edmonton
This event is designed to show the Edmonton community the positive aspects of Engineering at U of A. Each team puts together a display and small presentation that relates to their engineering discipline. This is a more professional and philanthropic event.
Opening Ceremony & Party
8:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Room At The Top
The commencement of GEER Week. This is a night full of warm welcomes from the ESS Team to the clubs, some reminders about safety and behavior, and then finished off with karaoke!
Purchase Tickets (Includes one pre-paid drink)
Monday, January 15th 2024
Pancake Breakfast
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
ETLC Solarium
A tasteful event to showcase culinary expertise and creativity. Teams will produce pancakes based on their selected theme for the general student body to taste and judge. Students and a panel of judges will then cast their vote on which team was their favorite based off presentation, taste, and creativity.
Scavenger Hunt Begins
9:00 AM
Campus & Greater Edmonton
Competitors must obtain or photograph as many items on the provided list (list TBD) as possible. The team that collects and documents the most items wins the scavenger hunt. The teams will have the course of the week to find about 80 items on and off campus (within the Safe Walk parameters). Every item is within walking limits, as the use of a private vehicle is strictly prohibited.
Dodgeball
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Main Gym - VVC
A test of speed, agility, strength, endurance, and general ninja skills. The Engineering dodgeball event is played with Campus Cup Rules. Teams are to consist of 10 players - Randomly Selected by ESS' VP Social Events, and the game is won automatically when the opposing team's players have been eliminated. The tournament is played round robin style, and then through a bracket.
Movie Night
10:00 PM to 12:00 AM
ETLC Solarium
Each team is required to produce a 10 to 15-minute movie that revolves around their theme for the week. During this event, the movie trailers from all the teams are shown and judged.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024
BroomBall
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Education Gym
Hockey is recognized as Canada's National Winter Sport. However, what happens if you were to combine with a popular sport like Soccer and remove the skates? You Get Broomball. The Engineering Broomball event is played with CCR Rules. Teams will consist of 10 players maximum in a team, with a maximum of 5 people on the field at once - Players will be randomly selected by the ESS' VP Social Events. The game is won based on scores and played round-robin style, and then through a bracket.
Obstacle Course
1:45 PM to 4:30
East Gym
A test of speed, stamina, edurancem and teamwork. Each team is required to submit one or more obstacle to include in the course. After all teams have completed their submissions, the course now has its layout. Teams perform the run as a relay race with two participants to relay, with the next two participants waiting to be tagged by the previous two members. Teams are then ranked on overall finish time.
Mixology
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
The Pint - Whyte
Team will produce a beer based beverage and a non-alcoholic beveragfe and present it to a panel of judges. Theme related labels and a commercial for the drink is required. Teams create a recipe from an ingredients list given ahead of time, to which they pass off to the bartenders available to recreate.
Are You Smarter Than a First Year?
7:30 PM to 12:00 AM
The Pint - Whyte
This event tests all Engineering students to see if they remember anything from First Year or various university-related topics. Teams are allowed 5 active participants (after each round they can be switched out) to which those team members are going head to head in trivia topics such as calculus, physics, chemistry, and computer programming. During each round, teams will have a discussion period, which also gives them time to write down on their given whiteboards the answer to the question. Once the buzzer sounds, teams will be awarded points for correctness and a new round starts.
Purchase Tickets (Includes 1 pre-paid highball)
Wednesday, January 17th 2024
Debate
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Moot Court Room
Law Centre - LC 209
Inspired by CBC's The Debaters, competitors must use analytical techniques to present an entertaining and reasonable point of view on a resolution which has not been revealed to them ahead of time. Each debate has two pairs of debaters going head to head, having only 15 minutes to prepare. The debate consist of four sections: the opening remarks, open discussion, general knowledge, and closing remarks. This is a tournament style event and will be structured as a double elimination bracket.
Spelling Bee
6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Room At The Top
Engineers are not good at spelling, and this event puts that theory to the test. In this event, participants are not able to use books or mobile devices and are required to spell words found in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Classroom Pronouncer Guide. Each word a team spells correctly will gain them points.
Purchase Tickets (Includes one pre-paid highball)
Thursday, January 18th 2024
Design Competition
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Elko Garage
The Design Competition is a timed indoor event where each team is presented with a design problem and a selection of materials. Teams recieve limited time to work before the designs will be tested, after which one or two representatives from each team will give a 5 min presentation for their design.
Drag Show
8:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Dinwoodie Lounge
The Engineering Drag Show is a dance and lip sync competition performed in drag. Teams of 1 to 6 members will execute a well choreographed, creative lip sync performance in full drag. Teams will be required to submit their songs of choice, drag names, drag attire, and video of their groups choreography ahead of the performance for approval.
Friday, January 19th 2024
Canstruction & Food Drive
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
ETLC Solarium
This event is in correlation with the GEER Week Food Drive. Teams centralize all of the non-perishable foods they've collected to use as building blocks. Teams are then to construct an aesthetically pleasing sculpture using the donated goods. Teams are allowed 5 active members to participate in this event, and they have 15 minutes to build their sculpture in the allotted building grounds (marked on the floor by tape). After the building period, the team presents their work in a 5-minute presentation to the judges, photos are taken and then disassembled for the next team.
Scavenger Hunt Ends
5:00 PM
Campus & Greater Edmonton
Competitors must obtain or photograph as many items on the provided list (list TBD) as possible. The team that collects and documents the most items wins the scavenger hunt. The teams will have the course of the week to find about 80 items on and off campus (within the Safe Walk parameters). Every item is within walking limits, as the use of a private vehicle is strictly prohibited.
Battle of the Bands
6:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Midway
Each team enters a band and Dance Troupe into the Battle of the Bands. These two groups are judged separately. The band can consist of as many persons as needed to perform, as long as they are not professionals and are current U of A students. Teams are given the stage to perform a 10-15 minute set of pre-approved songs (banter is included in this time limit).
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Saturday, January 20th 2024
Point Court
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
DICE 8-207
This is a time for the teams to send a represenative to dicussion with the Head Judge to dispute any penalties or points that they might disagree with. As only one or two represenatives are needed to make a dispute, not all teams need to participate if they are happy with their current scoring scheme.
The Engineers’ Banquet
7:30 to 2:00 AM
Mirage Banquet Hall
This is a formal event that commences the end of GEER Week, and where the GEER Week 81 winners will be announced. This night is banquet style that includes music, dancing, photo booths, and a play-money casino. This is a CASH-ONLY bar.
Purchase Tickets (Includes meal)
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