MEMBER REGISTRATION
Volunteer Service
You must complete 48 hours of volunteer service to be eligible for Step 6: Professional Member.
These volunteer hours must be earned after graduation, preferably while on the pre-registration program.
Process
- Login at apegm.mb.ca
- Submit your volunteer service online
The Experience Review Committee will:
- Assess your report
- Credit your volunteer service hours
Criteria
Your volunteer service must:
- Be something you do
- Be unpaid
- Total a minimum of 48 hours (12 if you've come from the Assessment Program)
- Be provided to a charitable, community or technical organization (not for a relative of any age)
Your volunteer service may include:
- Run in a marathon for charity
- Serve on a technical committee
- Serve on an Association committee
- Serve with a Rotary or Kiwanis
- Volunteer in a senior centre
- Organize or make a presentation at an Association Chapter or Annual General Business Meeting
- Organize or make a presentation at a seminar
- Help organize a technical society function such as a meeting or seminar
- Serve on a technical society committee
- Serve on a Board or committee in an Engineering or Geoscientific capacity
- Provide job shadowing for a student
- Mentor a student outside the workplace
- Judge a science fair
- Prepare and deliver a presentation on Engineering or Geoscience as a career to a school classroom or youth
organization such as 4H, Guides, Scouts or Junior Achievement
- Staff a Career Day or Career Symposium booth and/or prepare and set up a display on Engineering or Geoscience
- Participate as a Production Advisor to a Junior Achievement company
- Prepare a technical paper for a conference and/or publication
- Present a technical paper
- Referee a technical paper
- Sponsor an Engineering or Geoscience student at the annual Association Student Networking Event (2 hours max per event)
- Hold a Board position
- Participate in the operation of a community club, cultural group or religious organization
- Coach or manage a team
- Organize a cultural event
- Participate in a community volunteer organization such as the Lion's Club or Big Brothers/Sisters
- Help organize or produce a community event such as a play or concert
- Organize a charity event
- Give blood (1 hour per donation)
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IMPORTANT
You are encouraged to continue to participate in volunteer service activities after satisfying the pre-registration requirement,
however, reporting these hours is not required.