Summer Holidays Ethnic Minority Meeting Minutes

Planning Black History Month, Diwali, food events, a Tai Chi collaboration, informal meetups, and MOSAIC communications.

Minutes by Crystal

Attendance

• Thomas F.
• Crystal
• Aastha
• Archie

Black History Month

• No Black academic speaker had been identified yet.
• Potentially try to organise a talk
  • Focused on career journeys in computer science.
  • Try to find a Black academic in computing.
  • Otherwise, pivot to careers (e.g., third- or fourth-year students).
• Potentially collab with MOSAIC

Food-Based Event

• Try foods from different cultures.

Diwali (Sunday 8 November 2026)

• Bring in traditional food + cute art + music
• Potentially book out CS007
• Potentially have it on Friday before FnG

Tai Chi Collab in Term II

• Aastha is president
• Mondays and Thursdays, 7:30–10:00 pm (probably).
• For wellbeing, originated from the East

Little Get-Togethers

• Ali’s suggestion
• Create a form to gauge interest.
• Twice a term meetup
• Share cultures
  • Food
  • PowerPoint

Communications with MOSAIC

• UWCS promotes their events and MOSAIC promotes UWCS events
• Aastha is on the MOSAIC committee.

Aastha's UWCS exec access

• Thomas to fix Aastha's UWCS email access permissions.
• Aastha to ping Tech Officers for assistance