O-Week at UNSW is the biggest party of the Uni year, and UNSW has the biggest and best O-Week in Australia. Every year, around 6,000 new students are welcomed to the University by the friendly faces of the O-Week Yellow Shirts.
The Yellow Shirts are student volunteers who give up their time to help new students settle in to Uni life. O-Week may be the most noticeable thing Yellow-Shirts do, but it is really only the tip of the iceberg.
Each September around 140 Yellow Shirts are selected from more than 300 applicants. From that moment they take part in training and get involved in a whole bunch of social activities to help them get ready for O-Week. To help them prepare the Yellow Shirts even go away on a training camp!
During O-Week itself, they take new students on tours, run social activities, help people who are lost and confused and just generally spend a lot of time being friendly and talking to new students.
Being a Yellow Shirt is a great way to develop skills like team work, leadership, communication and problem solving. But Yellow Shirts is a whole lot more than that. You’ll get to meet a whole bunch of new people, from all over campus, and get to help others in a way that can make a lasting difference.
Yellow Shirt applications open on Monday 1 September and close Friday 12 September at 5pm. Check the Arc website in Week 5, Semester 2 for an Application Form.
oweek@arc.unsw.edu.au