open-goverance/Committee/2024-2025/Budget/13._Showcases.md

## Showcases

### PyCon Ireland 2024 Trip  

To prove trip attendance, please see <<https://cp.ulwolves.ie/manage/events/16284>>  

This was a trip made by UL Computer Society to PyCon Ireland 2024,  
hosted in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Dublin on November 16th-November 17th, 2024.  
This section will cover the organization of the trip.  

Since we had to find transportation for this trip, preparation for this event took a lot of organization.  
Thankfully, we had lots of information from previous years to help us with this.  
We arranged transport for all members to and from Dublin & Limerick, and their event tickets.  
The cost for both transport and tickets was subsidized from us, making attendance to the event much cheaper for our members.  
We used interest checks and surveys to gauge how many members were interested in attending the event, using that information to know how many tickets we needed to buy.  
We were also able to negotiate a group discount for the tickets, which helped us save money.  
Once we had the numbers regarding who were planning on attending,  
we booked the tickets for the events and the buses from Limerick to Dublin and back.     
Things went smoothly, and we were able to adhere to our initial itinerary.  
We didn't have to rush coming back to Limerick, since we gave ourselves plenty of time to get back.  
This gave us more time for things like unplanned bathroom breaks.  

### SISTEM

In Semester 2 of this year we helped run an event called SISTEM,  
the Student Inter-Society Technology and Enterprise Meetup.  
This was a large event that happened in the Kemmy Business School on March 29th, 2025.  
Usually, this event is run by multiple societies, across multiple universities in Ireland.  
It is the largest event of its kind in Ireland, an entirely-student run event.  

We had 30–40 people attending, across multiple universities, like UL, UCC, and UCD.  
The event also gathered sponsorship from LERO, and assistance from Google.  

In addition to the sponsorship and assistance, we also had industry speakers from companies like Google, and LERO at the event.  
They would give talks about specific topics they're currently working on, with plenty of time for questions and answers.  

One of the more impressive events that UL Computer Society was able to run this year,  
we were able to hit the record for the number of pizzas ordered for an event in UL history.