Annual General Meeting
ACES’ First Conference of the Year
The Annual General Meeting is a fall gathering between the ACES Executive, commissioners, and its members. This conference is focused on group discussions, allowing attendees to gain insight from each other and provide input into the growth and direction of ACES. During the General Assembly session, member representatives propose resolutions and vote on important motions that will impact engineering students across Atlantic Canada.
AGM 2023
The University of Prince Edward Island will host AGM for 2023 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. This conference will bring together the 2023-2024 ACES Executive and delegates from ACES member schools to collaborate on how to better serve each school’s engineering society and student body. Through discussions and presentations, conversations will be facilitated with the voices of all ACES member schools to contribute to unifying Atlantic engineering students.
AGM Co-chair
Berry Genge
Berry Genge (she/her/elle) is a fourth-year Sustainable Design Engineering student at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). She is very excited to co-chair the ACES AGM this year and showcase the beauty of the little island she calls home to students from across the Atlantic Canadian provinces this fall. In addition to this role, Berry also sits on the UPEI Engineering Society as VP Advocacy. Through this role, and her position at the UPEI Engineering Success Centre, she works to help students improve their professionalism skills development as well as to work to create a welcoming and comfortable environment at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering (FSDE). In her free time, Berry enjoys playing on her schools ultimate frisbee team, designing frog stickers, and enjoying the local musical talent in Charlottetown, PE.
AGM Co-chair
Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald (he/him/il) is a fourth-year student in the Sustainable Design Engineering program at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI).
As an AGM co-chair, Brian is very excited to bring students from across the Atlantic Canadian provinces together in PEI, whom he called home for the last four years, and give others the opportunity to experience the island’s stunning beauty and friendly atmosphere that drove him to study there. He also strives to ensure that the AGM is a memorable, productive, and enjoyable conference for all.
In tandem with this role, Brian also serves as the UPEI Engineering Society VP External. In his spare time, he enjoys rock climbing, ultimate (Frisbee), and spending time with friends.
AGM Chair responsibilities include:
Organizing a team to plan the Annual General Meeting
Communicating between ACES, the hosting university’s Administration and Engineering Society, and sponsors
Ensuring that all accommodations, meals, and events are planned, funded, and appropriate
Historical AGMs
Host University
2022: Dalhousie University, Agricultural Campus
2021: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s
2020: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
2019: Dalhousie University, Sexton
2018: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
2017: University of Prince Edward Island
2016: Acadia University
2015: Dalhousie University, Sexton
2014: Memorial University
See photos of previous AGMs!
