Overview of the “Raise a Glass for ASHRAE” Event
Date: 28th November, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: +233 Jazz Bar & Grill
The “Raise a Glass for ASHRAE” event, held at +233 Jazz Bar & Grill, provided an engaging platform for ASHRAE members and prospective members to connect, learn, and network. The gathering, which began around 6:00 PM, saw an attendance of twenty-one people, including eleven ASHRAE members and ten non-members. Notably, eight of the ten non-members expressed keen interest in enrolling as members, highlighting the event’s success in fostering advocacy and outreach.
This event successfully combined advocacy, education, and networking, strengthening connections among members and non-members. It provided a welcoming introduction to ASHRAE for prospective members, with strong interest shown in joining. Led by the Membership Promotion (MP) and Young Engineers in ASHRAE (YEA) committees, the event fostered camaraderie. It also advanced ASHRAE’s mission, of advancing the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration (HVAC&R) and their allied fields, through talks among attendees. All who attended were encouraged to keep in contact and bring on board all youth in the field of HVAC&R in alignment with the current ASHRAE Presidential theme of workforce empowerment towards a sustainable future.