{"id":6775,"date":"2018-06-26T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/students-creating-social-change\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:08:39","slug":"students-creating-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/students-creating-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Students creating social change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENACTUS is a student club working on community projects with the purpose of improving the quality of life and standard of living for people. With over 10 executive members and approximately 70 general members, they are currently working on their project \u201cSuited Up\u201d which supports those experiencing disadvantages with their goal of entering the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph and many of his team mates initially got involved with ENACTUS out of their own desire to broaden their university experience. Chris, the Vice President, said that he wanted to do more than \u201cjust the standard get your degree done, pass and move on,\u201d and that once he became involved and saw the change that he was affecting, he only wanted to do more.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, ENACTUS Head of Marketing, who is studying a double major in marketing and advertising found that working in ENACTUS allowed her to collaborate with students from other disciplines, preparing her for real-life work situations. While Dakota, ENACTUS Project Leader, saw it as an opportunity to utilise what he was learning in his degree in a practical setting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Entrepreneurship students creating social change | ENACTUS Curtin\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6wi-664U3Es?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Being involved with ENACTUS isn\u2019t just about volunteering to give back to your community, it provides students the opportunity get out of the university safety net and into the community. Here they meet with people from diverse backgrounds, different demographics and different life challenges. This gives students a wider perspective of life as well as helping them learn tolerance, patience and understanding to communicate and connect with people unlike themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Some students may question why they would spend so much time on something when you\u2019re not getting paid for it or if it\u2019s taking away from their studies. To that Chris says that \u201cthe people you meet, the connections you make, and the opportunities that open up to you make it worthwhile. You get a lot out of it without realising it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team detailed that the beauty of working in a team as large as ENACTUS meant that they were able to share the workload, and because everyone is so passionate about the projects they are working on, it doesn\u2019t feel like just another task to get done. \u201cYou want to be involved and do your bit,\u201d says Mary.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest lesson Joseph said he has learnt from his experience with ENACTUS is that you must \u201cseek out your own success,\u201d that just because you do your time and get your degree doesn\u2019t mean you leave university with the guarantee that you are going to be employed. It is the experiences, relationships and skills your form alongside you academic coursework that truly set you apart in the eyes of potential employers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enactuscurtin.com\/\">Find out more<\/a> about how you can get involved with ENACTUS Curtin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members from student club ENACTUS share with us their experience in joining a university club and their thoughts on why it\u2019s so important for students to get more involved outside the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1476,"featured_media":6776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-6775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/enactus.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Jaimi","last_name":"Baile","display_name":"Jaimi Baile"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 09:27:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6775"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=6775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}