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The Volunteering, Engagement & Recognition committee acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of active Chapter volunteers.

Volunteer Service Recognition Program

PEO's Volunteer Recognition Program recognizes the service that volunteers provide to the association. The efforts of volunteers result in many accomplishments and contribute to the operation and success of PEO. The Volunteer Recognition Service program recognizes volunteers who have served on chapters and celebrates achievements of milestone years of service. The recognition pin is awarded to recognize five, 15, and 20 years of service. The Engineers Canada Fellowship pin recognizes 10 years of service. A special sterling silver pin is awarded when a volunteer has 25 or more years of service.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with local businesses
• Corporate Sponsorship

To improve relations, raise engineering profession awareness and plan events to enhance the profession's relationship with engineering businesses, professional associations and academic institutions in York Region and surrounding communities. 

Business and community outreach activities include:

• Promote licensing to companies in new engineering fields by collaborating with existing champions
• Outreach to professional associations to promote PEO's regulatory role, and the importance of licencing to help and provide resources to their members through their licensing journey (including foreign-trained engineering graduates)
• Collaborate with academic institutions and universities to promote and educate PEO governance and licensing values to engineering students
• Facilitate strong, ongoing relationships between the York chapter and local engineering businesses within York Region and the surrounding area

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with engineering businesses
• Liaison with associations and institutions
• Event facilitation
• Corporate sponsorship

To effectively communicate the chapter business to the members. Communications to members are accomplished through the use of email, website, social media and annual newsletter.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Website maintenance
• Social media marketing
• Graphic design
• Communications strategy

To foster an inclusive engineering community where individuals from all backgrounds feel valued, supported, and empowered to grow both personally and professionally. This committee, previously known as “Women in Engineering,” has expanded its focus to embrace diversity in all its forms—across gender, culture, experience, and perspectives—recognizing that inclusive environments drive stronger teams and better engineering outcomes.

Key areas of focus include:

• Promoting inclusive practices and awareness within the engineering profession
• Creating opportunities for meaningful dialogue, learning, and networking
• Supporting the growth and advancement of underrepresented groups in engineering

Events and initiatives are open to all members and aim to create a welcoming space for shared experiences, perspectives, and growth.

30 by 30 Initiative

The committee supports the Engineers Canada 30 by 30 initiative, which aims to increase the representation of women among newly licensed engineers to 30% by 2030. This effort also emphasizes the importance of inclusion, retention, and advancement within the profession.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Speaker
• Event organization
• Event facilitation

To promote engineering to youths. The education committee organizes education outreach activities to inspire youths to explore engineering as a career.

Education outreach activities: 

• Design Challenge for grades 7 and 8 during National Engineering Month
• Mathletics Competition - Join us for Mathletics
• Engineer in the Classroom program
• University Entrance Scholarship program
• Career presentations
• York Region Science Fair
• First Robotics

Volunteer Opportunities

• Event facilitation
• Event photographer
• Classroom presentations
• Evaluate projects at technology and science fairs
• Liaison with school boards and teachers
• Corporate sponsorship
   

To plan events to enhance the profession's relationships with politicians and work to express PEO policy positions to government. 

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with politicians

To facilitate the delivery of the PEO certificates to the certificate recipients and celebrate their career milestone. Newly licensed engineers can choose to receive their certificates by mail or at a certificate presentation ceremony.  PEO York Chapter holds licence presentation ceremony two times per year: one in the winter (February or March) and the other one in the fall (September or October).  If you have chosen to receive your certificate at a presentation ceremony, you will be invited to one of the ceremony.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Liaison with venue prior and during the event
• Perform logistics, facilitation, and administration of licence presentation ceremony
• Event photography

To provide mentors to new engineering graduates or internationally trained professionals to help them gain employment, progress their careers or progress their skills to become P.Eng.

Programs overseen by the Mentorship and EIT Committee include:

• Licensure Assistance Program (LAP)
• Accelerated Mentoring
• Ryerson University Mentorship Project
• York University Mentorship Program
• Ryerson University Guest Lecturer for a Day Program

Volunteer Opportunities

• Organize events for EITs and foreign trained engineers
• Event facilitation
• Mentor university students
• Mentor new engineering graduates
• Mentor foreign trained professionals