Metropolia’s Clubs were introduced on METKA’s Instagram channel a moment ago on. Did you miss the introductions? They can still be found in the highlights of Instagram. You can also get to know the clubs with these interviews!
4Towers
On which activities your club is based?
– We want to offer a meeting place for the people who are into gaming, computers and e-sports.
Where the idea of this club started?
– It started out from a wish that METKA board got, to establish this type of club.
How often do you meet?
– We’re chatting regularly on Discord channel. We have meetings about once a month and we’re seeing each other when needed.
What role has the Student Union METKA in your club activity?
– METKA takes care of the financial matters. All monetary operations go through METKA. METKA also acts as a supervisor of operations and intervenes in the activities if necessary.
Is your club’s activities open to everyone and free to anyone to join?
– Everyone can join. You can also join in from the other universities.
What have you done so far in your club?
– We have organized OSM competitions in PUBG, other tournaments and been involved in events. In addition, we have our own event, All Nighter, which has been on break due to the pandemic.
What is the best thing about club activity?
– You get to know new people and organize things that you haven’t done before.
Your tips for a student who is interested in starting a club?
– Don’t hesitate to contact METKA. All ideas are open. It’s also good to openly ask from the other clubs, how they started their activities.
Where can I find info about your club? What channels are you using to inform your club’s activities?
– Instagram is a good place, and also our Discord server.
Dekant
On which activities your club is based?
– The club is based on electronic music and the culture related to it.
Where the idea of this club started?
– We came up with an idea of this club already before the start of the studies, when Santeri had an idea of an activity related to the electronic music. Leevi approached Santeri with a message before the school’s start and things began to progress. Johannes has knowledge about students’ clubs, so we recruited him as a club’s manager. Our class mate Lauri is also a member.
How often do you meet?
– Occasionally, but quite often. We have meetings more often before the club’s events. We haven’t scheduled the meetings at the moment, but they are organized approximately once every two weeks. Or when needed!
What role has the student union METKA in your club activity?
– Dekant is an independent club, but official matters are handled through METKA. METKA is accompanied with organizing student events, but in a club’s own events, we as a club members take care of the arrangements.
Is your club’s activities open to everyone and free to anyone to join?
– Currently we have four core members. Our events are indeed open to everyone! We are planning activities that could include all who are interested in the topic. It is important, that all who are willing, are able to join the club activities.
What have you done so far in your club?
– Meetings, one more limited event, a gig. New stuff coming for the spring!
What is the best thing about club activity?
– Organizing things and inspiring new people to find electronic music. It is the best thing, when people really enjoy the event! Of course, playing music is much fun too. Also, starting a club is really easy.
Your tips for a student who is interested in starting a club?
– Find the right people. Look around and wonder but act also! There’s a need for a new clubs and activities here, so implement your ideas. You will surely find others interested to join as well. Even if things wouldn’t go well, you won’t lose anything. METKA also promotes you with resourcing a club, if needed.
Where can I find info about your club? What channels are you using to inform your club’s activities?
– Instagram. In the future there will probably be more social media channels.
Dungeons & Dragons (Metropolia)
On which activities your club is based?
– In our club Dungeons & Dragons Club (Metropolia) we’re centered around two activities. So first, we play tabletop roleplaying games, such as Dungeons and Dragons, which is commonly known as D&D. Secondly, we play various board games. In roleplaying games, such as D&D, players take up roles of fictional characters and with these fictional characters, they roleplay and interact with the world created by the person called the Dungeon Master. So imagine yourself in the shoes of Luke Skywalker or Harry Potter or any other fictional character and imagine what You would do in their shoes?
Where the idea of this club started?
– I’m the club president and the club was founded because I had a desire and a dream to do so. When I enrolled into the Metropolia I hadn’t found any clubs nearby so I contacted METKA and they helped me out with founding this club. And that happened 20-21 months ago.
How often do you meet?
– It all depends on the schedule of the club members, but there has been an activity in the club at least every month or every second month.
What role has the Student Union METKA in your club activity?
– METKA has helped out the club in several ways: first of all, it has officially acknowledged the club, hence giving it legitimacy in the Metropolia’s student community. Second, METKA has helped us out by gifting us D&D books, which were quite expensive, but we’re very thankful to METKA for it. Last but not least, METKA has posted the club’s info on their official website and on their different social media channels, which lead to a stable flow of new members coming to the club.
Is your club’s activities open to everyone and free to anyone to join?
– Everybody is welcome to join the club. If you have a rich imagination or you wish to find new friends you’re more than welcome to join and check out the club. So far, there has been a symbolic 4 euro membership fee, but this might change.
What have you done so far in your club?
– Well, I’ve personally run over 50 one-shot sessions (so these self-contained games) as well as 2 campaigns. There’s two other club members who also are running campaigns (so campaigns are these play sessions that last several games). We also in the club had 3 Hangout events where everybody was welcome to join and play board games, to hang out (as the name implies). But yes, we’ve been busy. As mentioned previously, there has been an activity in the club every month or every second month. So we have some activities.
What is the best thing about club activity?
– Honestly, it’s about meeting new people and playing board games with them. One of the interesting aspects of Dungeons & Dragons (and any other tabletop roleplaying game) is the storytelling aspect. So it’s always exciting and interesting to see what new people bring to the table (as to say) or how they contribute to the story. Even though an adventure or a story or the fictional world is the same new people bring something new, something unusual, something very creative to the world/to the adventure, which makes it even more fun.
Where can I find info about your club? What channels are you using to inform your club’s activities?
– I’d recommend you to join our Discord server or you can go to the club’s official Instagram page.
Neulonomit
On which activities your club is based?
– The club is based on everyone’s common interest in handicrafts.
Where the idea of this club started?
– The idea was networking and to get to know other Metropolia’s students.
How often do you meet?
– The meetings are held once every two weeks, on Tuesdays at Myllypuro campus. Sometimes the club also meets in other places than Myllypuro. The club has gathered for example in a café.
What role has the Student Union METKA in your club activity?
– The club is one of METKA’s clubs. That is the official part of the club.
Is your club’s activities open to everyone and free to anyone to join?
– Our activities are open! Anyone can join. On Instagram you can find our updates about the activities. You don’t have to know anything about the crafts!
What have you been up to in your club lately?
– The club meetings, The Night of the Homeless Citizens campaign, having our checkpoint in a Raksa <3 Sote event.
What is the best thing about club activity?
– From the club you can find new people, who share the same interest as you. The activity connects the students from different campuses, who you wouldn’t have necessarily otherwise met. We have students from different classes, so it’s interesting to talk about the studies.
Your tips for a student who is interested in starting a club?
– You don’t have to know anything about the student clubs beforehand. If you want to start a club, just do it! Along the journey you will surely learn everything needed. You don’t have to know how to work as a club manager or how to do the paper work.
Where can I find info about your club? What channels are you using to inform your club’s activities?
– Instagram. We also have a club’s WhatsApp group.
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