The upcoming applied physicists have to build a hyperloop, bearing in mind the motto "No pressure, the bar is low" of study association Van der Waals. Or, well, they actually have to make a train for the wooden track laid out on the Cascade hill - also a means of transport. They can buy the necessary materials with 'money' in a shop. The money can be obtained by solving tasks related to physics - most materials are spent to pimp the train, because they can also earn points for creativity.

The mechanical engineers are allowed to build a tool - even a weapon: a crossbow. The canteen of the Gemini building therefore looks, sounds and smells like a carpentry workshop - hopefully all tables will survive the sawing and carpentry work. They can test the crossbow on their intro parents on Tuesday morning. Luckily in an indirect way: if they hit the target, the intro dads and mums will enter the water. Last year, however, they ended up in the water anyway - and again this year it will most likely be no different.

No intro without self-crafted steerable cars in the Flux building. The assignment by study association Thor (Electrical Engineering) this year is to save cat puppets from a tree. For that reason, the intro group fire brigade came out in groups of four. The goal: park the car as quickly as possible against the twenty-centimeter-tall toy tree.

At Industrial Design the intro-kids have to come up with a plan to save the amur leopard threatened with extinction - completely in line with the PanterPrintro theme. That goes hand in hand with a lot of drones - and especially with a lot of laughter about the videos that the intro groups made in Atlas' basement and that are projected onto the wall via Whatsapp.

The two hundred architects-to-be can earn points in fifteen games to buy building materials for the large avoid-the-fire-extinguishing-jet game in collaboration with the fire brigade. Building bridges with beer crates, playing memory with photos of buildings and teachers and laying out the words ‘steel’, ‘study’ and ‘week’ with their bodies are study-related enough, according to the CHEOPS introduction committee.

Cocktail bar

Intermate takes things seriously. The future industrial engineers must behave like the management team of a cocktail bar that has to invest as well as possible. With earned money (through seven assignments) they can improve the marketing, quality or service of their cocktail business. The case used is a graduation project from one of their predecessors.

Whether building a rocket with craft supplies really reflects what the bachelors Psychology & Technology and Sustainable Innovation entail is a bit doubtful, but it fits nicely with their intro theme: space. At GEWIS, aspiring mathematicians don’t have that much fun; a presentation by high-tech company Sioux. The money that the company pays for this will be spent on the entire intro week of the study association.

Pub quiz

Mamas at Japie (Chemical Engineering) are happy that their kids are having a bit of an easier case than they had last year. Instead of making a poster about a chemical problem and presenting it to the group, they can now take part in a pub quiz in the large lecture hall. Although sitting still for more than an hour is a challenge for some.

The way Protagoras put biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics in its business case is creative. Make a four-letter word that represents a body part (foot), build a bridge with spaghetti and marshmallows, make mucus and complete an obstacle course while solving equations. In addition, there are also just-for-fun activities like bubble football and running in a bag. As Kelly Morrenhof of the Protagoras introduction committee explains: “We did not want to specialize, because Biomedical Engineering is a broad study. And with games you get to know your fellow students quickly and that’s the point, right?”