Kick start the university year at O Week

New students can embrace everything uni has to offer at UNSW O Week, one of Australia's biggest celebrations to kick off the 2015 academic year.

Get ready for fun-filled activities, stimulating lectures and study skills workshops, fantastic entertainment and even the chance to break a world record.

And to make it easier to meet other new students, a new social networking app, UNSW Social, will be launched during the week. 

To promote the app, students have been invited take part in a Guinness World Record attempt for ‘the most people attending a business speed-networking event’ at Leighton Hall on Wednesday, 25 February.

The start of O Week will also see the Campaign for Australian Aid launch its Fair Share food truck to raise awareness about the role of Australia’s foreign aid program. 

The truck will be based near the roundhouse from 10am-4pm on Monday, 23 February. Students can order Southeast Asian style street-style food, with payment based on what they think is fair.

World Vision chief executive Tim Costello and former MasterChef winner and UNICEF Ambassador Adam Liaw will be on hand to answer questions about the role of foreign aid in alleviating poverty.

Other highlights include the O Week Dance Party with DJ EGO, inflatable sumo suit wrestling and zorb soccer, a comedy night presented by the Comedy Store and a movie night on the quad lawn.

The full O Week program is available here and Yellow Shirt student volunteers will be on hand to answer questions and provide campus tours. Free fairy floss, pancakes and snow cones will also be on offer.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Jacobs will officially welcome new undergraduate students and their families to UNSW at 6pm on Monday, 23 February in the Sir John Clancy Auditorium.

What: UNSW’s O Week

When: February 23 – 27, 2015

Media contact: Leilah Schubert, UNSW Media Office, 9385 8107