A massive congratulations to our 2024 Guild Club Award winners!
Last Wednesday at our private Club Awards ceremony, the Guild acknowledged the efforts of our 100+ Guild clubs who continue to service great experiences, events and activities for the Curtin community!
The Peoples' Choice
Dual Winners:
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Curtin Middle Eastern North African Club (MENA). We received well written and passionate feedback from members of this club. With a dizzying array of social media presence helping to express the diversity of the clubs’ cultural roots. A member said that the new club has transformed campus life for students like themselves. Others have stated that the club has created a sense of belonging for students from the Middle East and North Africa.
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Curtin Hindu Club. Holding weekly cultural events on campus and keeping members engaged is no small feat, but this club has done just this in its 2 years of being back on campus. Students say that the weekly events allow them to embrace and learn new things about their culture, able to create new friends and to socialise, but also embrace their holiest of festivals all under the one banner.
Best Club Event
Dual Runners-up:
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Women in Business - Spring Market. With its third year running, there was a dramatic shift for this event to be moved from a night time affair to a day time setting. This saw the club activate Atkinson Forum with a host of women-led businesses and stalls. Feedback from attendees called the market “fantastic” and “inspiring”. Women in Business’ Spring Market.
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Curtin Hindu Club - Harmony in Colours. Combing culture and religion, this Holi Festival was about creating an inclusive, respectful and belonging environment to celebrate that every colour is beautiful. By covering everyone in colour, everyone is equal.
Winner:
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Curtin Mechanical Society - MechElMech. Every year this club aims to make a bigger and better event that provides an entire cohort the opportunity to network with over 25 companies. With the goal to get students out there into grad programs, this event is timed to help students to meet those companies and get a foot in the door. With over 200 attendees, this former Runner-up has crashed through the barriers to win Best Club Event of the Year.
Best New Club
Runner-up:
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Curtin Occupational Therapy Society. When new clubs start they have to outline their key purpose, and for this club, it was not just about creating a club for a particular cohort, it was also about raising awareness about the important job that people in that cohort provide to the general community. You will see at their stalls at O-Day, and their BBQ events, with equipment that shows the wider Community the difficulties that many people have with getting through daily life. That is why Occupational Therapy is such an important cohort to help people in the tasks they do, day-to-day.
Dual Winners:
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Vietnamese Students Association at Curtin held 8 successful events this year, ranging from celebrations of culture to inspiring members by holding talks with successful Vietnamese Curtin alumni. This club has had a touching impact on Vietnamese students at Curtin, with many reaching out to us to speak about how much this club has meant to them, to have a community they can feel they belong to.
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Curtin Middle Eastern North African Club (MENA). This club was only fully registered in August, 2024, but sky rocketed to 140 members in short time, running two very well attended and successful events. Their marketing campaign on Instagram is next level and truly embraces the diversity of cultures they represent. With their rapid growth and developing of their community, the club have all the tools in place for a long and successful time at Curtin.
Most Improved Club
Runner-up:
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Curtin Marketing Association.This club is the epitome of a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Being one of the clubs that dissolved during Covid, an entire cohort was left without the opportunities that other cohort led clubs provide them. A group of students worked hard to not only bring the club back, but also conducted a total and very successful rebrand. They had a clear goal and created a step-by-step plan to build the club back up from ashes.
Winner:
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Curtin Engineers Without Borders. KPI Improvements: 2023 members, 35. 2024 members, 252. Total events went up 567%. 111 Workshops and Volunteering activities completed. These are only a few of the astounding numbers that this club has managed to improve upon for this year, as the club not only targeted fellow Engineering students, but also realised that their club could bring so much more for students from the School of Education, and other cohorts. They also successfully delivered events ranging from volunteering Youth Outreach programs to Beach Clean-ups, and social events!
Club of the Year
Dual Runners-up
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Curtin Games and Esports. With a dedicated committee running 5 events every week online and offline, for their equally dedicated community, this club pulled out all of the stops to bring some of the largest gaming events that Curtin has seen in many years. With not one, but three LAN parties held, a plethora of weekly gaming nights, and sold out Tav Quiz Nights, this was another incredibly successful year.
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Women in Business Curtin. This was one of the closest Club of the Year awards the committee have ever had to score and thus we have another runner up. Another successful year with a dedicated committee at the helm, this club focused on creating opportunities for their like-minded business and entrepreneur counter-parts. With many events catering to networking with sponsors, relaxing and elegant social events, and capping the year with an incredibly successful Spring Market.
Winner:
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Curtin Computer Science Students Association (ComSSA).To win Club of the Year is no easy feat, and to win Club of the Year when you start your year off asking for help because you didn’t receive a proper handover is one of the biggest testaments we could give to a club committee. This club not-only dedicated themselves for running Hackathon’s, casual Sundowners, and revision workshops for First Years, the committee dedicated themselves to fixing up the governance of the club, to write up a series of handover documents, and to ensure that they could handover the club in a better shape then they received it.
Further information on the Guild Club Awards can be found here.