Our annual NZAPSO Wine and Cheese was held on Thursday 9th July at Lone Star.
It was a great social event to start back into the second semester, and was celebrated with plenty of wine and cheese by pharmacy students of all year levels, and staff.
Special thanks to gravity for the amazing photography!
Our wonderful IPSF Committee have created a Pharmacy Student’s Guide of information, advice, tips, and many more activities to helping you survive your time in isolation!
Check out their magazine:
Saturday 14th March marked the day the door to Imagination land opened, and different characters and creatures from all movies and TV shows you had once seen had come to life. The objective of the day was to take upon activities and challenges across three flats on the mysterious land of North Dunedin.
Our members first assembled at our first flat on Leith Street, where different year levels prepared themselves for the first challenge; The Scrumpy Race! The event was sponsored none other than Scrumpy themselves, providing our members with plenty of refreshments in hand.
It was the perfect day for our members to enjoy a beverage in the hot sun, with plenty of dancing, mingling, a sizzling BBQ, and hot chips to keep our comrades going with full energy throughout the day!
Best dressed of the day was awarded to Shea McDonald whose outfit was inspired by the Joker.
A huge thanks to Scrumpy for yet again helping our association with ticking off another great flat crawl!
The traditional white coat ceremony was held at the University of Otago on Saturday 22nd February. The ceremony welcomed 131 new students into the Pharmacy School. This year the students received inspirational wishes in the pocket of their new white coats, written from Otago Pharmacy graduates.
Please enjoy some of the photographs taken at the ceremony by Alan Dove!
The ceremony also featured in the Otago Daily Times:
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/messages-inspire-new-generation
Our annual pharmacy camp was held from Tuesday 11th February to Thursday 13th February at the Waiora Scout Camp. We welcomed 60 new second years and had 35 third- and fourth-year pharmacy students as camp helpers.
The new students were greeted on the lawn of the Otago Museum on Tuesday afternoon by our executive team and helpers. Upon boarding the bus, the students were divided into six coloured teams and had their first chance to meet their new teammates whom they would soon get to know a lot better through games, team activities, and challenges. Once the students arrived at the campgrounds, they dug into their first meal which was prepped and ready by some of our wonderful helpers. After lunch, the eager P2’s dove into their teams and participated in several ice breaker games and team-building exercises.
The 6 teams were to participate in a varying number of challenges and activities ranging between sports to acting, and intellect. Our revue representative, Eve Bartholomew came up with 6 skit topics that were picked out of a hat by a member of each team which was later to be practiced and showcased. The first team challenge popped off with the balloon game, followed by an egg toss competition, and finally a quiz night after tea! We were excited to see the students were quickly forming new friendships.
The next morning greeted us with another stunner of a day which was the perfect weather for SPORTS DAY! The afternoon consisted of the 6 teams facing each other off in a few sports games to win the most points. There was Volleyball, Touch Rugby, and Cricket, tiebreakers were settled with relay sprints. We also tested each teams’ strength; Tug of War was the obvious game of choice. After lunch, the campers were re-energized and enthusiastic to carry on with the competition, next on the agenda was skit practicing.
Everyone gathered in the hall and the night had just begun, each team performed their acts ranging from raps battles, to singing, and impeccable acting which showed us that the P2s had some real talent. The hall was filled with laughter and applauds, and everyone had done an outstanding job the judges had a hard time making a unanimous decision. The night was a hit, which we all celebrated with a pizza night!
We finished the night off with a disco party including a DJ and late-night snacks, all the teams came together, danced and sang the night away.
Huge credit to Isabella Mcloughlin and the executive team for organizing such a successful camp!
The NZAPS-O annual general meeting was held on the 21st September 2019, where we announced our new executive team for 2020.
Riley McEvoy and Carlie Arnold were the recipients of the NZAPS-O Appreciation Award for their continual support and involvement in helping out with NZAPSO and the executive members throughout the years.
Congratulations are in order to our new executive team!
NZAPS-O 2020 Executive :
President – Isabella McLoughlin
Secretary – Miqi Ou Yang
Treasurer – Jessie Lam
Contact Person – Jared Davidson
Student Exchange Officer/Welfare – Lisa Hammersley
Education – Sophie Tran
Sports – McKinley Vollebregt
Social – Nico Ritmeester
Marketing – Josiah Mcdougall
Revue – Eve Bartholomew
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