Events – New Zealand Association of Pharmacy Students Otago

A Flat Crawl in Imagination Land!

Posted by miqioyon March 26, 2020March 26, 2020in Events, Media, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Saturday 14^th 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!

White Coat Ceremony

Posted by miqioyon February 29, 2020July 26, 2022in EventsLeave a comment

The traditional white coat ceremony was held at the University of Otago on Saturday 22^nd 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

P2 Students in White Coat

P2 Students Receiving Special Wishes

IMU Exchange Students & Sue Heydon

New P2 Students

Robbie Hannon & Dean Carlo Marra

2018 P2 Camp Report

Posted by pharmacyadm1non March 22, 2018March 22, 2018in Events, UncategorizedLeave a comment

The annual P2 Pharmacy Camp was held from Wednesday the 14^th until Friday the 16^th of February this year. 60 new second year pharmacy students and 40 student volunteers came along for two days of bonding and fun at the Waiora Scout Camp near Mosgiel.

The 60 eager P2 students were split into 6 teams and participated in activities which ranged from sports to acting challenges. Points were given to the top 3 teams in every activity. The winning team at the end of the camp received a prize.

After getting to know their team mates, the P2’s participated in several ice breaker games including balloon popping and a quiz night to build their team spirit and comradery. After dinner, the night was finished with a disco party including a DJ and late night snacks.

The next day, the camp awoke to sunshine and the morning was spent playing cricket, volleyball, touch rugby and tug of war for points. After some sandwiches were served for lunch, the teams split off to work on their skits which included acting and songs based on a theme chosen from a hat. The skits were later presented at night and the whole camp were laughing and applauding the brilliant effort the new additions to Pharmacy had made.

The night ended in another dance party. New friendships had blossomed and the whole cohort was celebrating together before entering their first year of study in The School of Pharmacy.

Emma Gray, Marketing Executive

P2 Camp 2018

Congratulations to the 2018 Executive!

Posted by ellso950on September 29, 2017September 29, 2017in Awards, conference, Events, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Tonight we had our annual general meeting where we announced our new executive for 2018.

Congratulations to:

President: Laura Pidcock

Secretary: Sophie Elliott-Buma

Treasurer: Ash Singh

Education representative: Jemma Fielding

Contact person/Liaison Officer: Ruby Gallavin

Student Exchange Officer/Welfare Representative: Nadine King

Social Representative: Rebecca Angus

Sports Representative: Marc Rooney

Marketing Representative: Emma Gray

Revue Representative: Mitchell Smith

We’d also like to congratulate all candidates who ran for positions this year. It was a tough week with difficult choices made between so many talented students. We are so lucky to have so many amazing members.

World Pharmacist Day

Posted by pharmacyadm1non September 24, 2017September 26, 2017in Events, Media, Uncategorized1 Comment

To celebrate World Pharmacist Day we put a video together showing what Pharmacists do! Big thanks to Paul Larson at Larson’s pharmacy who helped us with the video.

Bake Sale for Prostate Cancer Foundation

Posted by pharmacyadm1non September 5, 2017September 11, 2017in Events, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Come along to the Hunter Centre from 12-2 today! Our undergrad students, postgrad students and staff are having a bake sale to raise money for prostate cancer. Everything is a gold coin donation at the undergrad stall!! Come along and support a good cause

Congratulations Sonja Bimler

Posted by pharmacyadm1non August 23, 2017September 11, 2017in Awards, EventsLeave a comment

The NZ Pharmacy Awards 2017 were held recently. A massive congratulations to Sonja Bimler who received the Future Pharmacist of the Year Award! This award recognises a fourth year B pharm student who shows passion for the pharmacy profession and insightful ideas in completing an essay on a predetermined professional topic. Well done Sonja!!

2017 P2 Camp

Posted by pharmacyadm1non February 15, 2017June 7, 2017in Events, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Our legendary initiation into the School of Pharmacy is our P2 camp. This year we took all new students to Waiora Scout Camp from Monday 13th February to Wednesday 15th February.

Thank you to our sponsors this year:

Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand

Larson’s Pharmacy

Go Healthy New Zealand

BDO Accountants and Advisors

Huge credit to Alice Weil for organising such a successful camp.