MacEng Ambassadors play an important role in welcoming and supporting prospective students who are interested in McMaster Faculty of Engineering programs, and are often their first point-of-contact in answering questions about life at Mac Eng.
By sharing their experiences, providing advice and offering guidance to prospective students interested in pursuing BTech, Computer Science, Engineering and/or iBioMed, we are able to continue to build a strong #FireballFamily.
Our Mac Eng Ambassadors work alongside the Faculty of Engineering Recruitment Team to connect with thousands of students throughout the year through open houses, virtual events, 1:1 connections, tours, creative projects and more. Whether you are interested in just a general member role or want to take on more responsibility with committee projects, there’s a number of ways you can provide a lasting impression on prospective students!
Our team holds several events (Fall Preview, March Break, May@Mac, virtual AMAs and info sessions, etc) to promote MacEng! At these events, our Ambassadors may be involved as speakers highlighting their experiences, participating in Q&As, lending a hand to guests on campus (or virtually), or spreading positive energy in other supporting roles. Events are an amazing way for our prospective students to hear first-hand what the student experience entails!
Future students appreciate the opportunity to connect and engage with our current students in a 1:1 setting to get their individual questions answered. These connections could be created from various event opportunities, being present on public digital channels or through outreach on social media. All of our Ambassadors will have the awesome opportunity to speak with students through our UniBuddy platform and build strong relationships!
The voices of our current students matter and we’re always looking for ways to promote your experiences! You’ll have several opportunities to be involved in many marketing and promotional invitiatives which also includes social media engagement. This could look like sharing testimonials, doing Instagram take-overs, providing feedback, sharing your ideas for Fireball Diaries and more!
“Engaging with future students has been a great way to give back to the MacEng community. Having been in the same situation as the incoming students last year, I know how helpful talking with current students can be. It makes me happy to know I have helped them!”
“Creating the first Mac Eng TiktTok Committee was an awesome experience! Having fun with content creation and learning a lot about the Mac Eng community and about inspirational engineers in the broader engineering community has been incredibly rewarding.”
“I really enjoyed meeting other ambassadors (and of course, future students) at various open houses and virtual events! I’m always amazed by the passion, skill and energy of everyone here at McMaster Engineering!”
“Interacting with curious future students wanting to know every detail of McMaster reminded me of when I was learning about Mac and the support I received from ambassadors. It felt great being able to give back and do the same for others as what was done for me.”
