Science Formal CXX will be happening on Saturday, March 11th. We are very excited to be bringing back this 120-year-old tradition. Check out the rest of our website for details!
Student volunteer hours are an essential to bringing the Science Formal experince to life. With the volunteer hours, students and guests attending the event help to create pieces of the set for the year's theme.
If you have any questions, or extenuating circumstances that prevent you from completing your hours, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Please check your junk mailbox if you haven't received the signup form.
If you have any questions you can email [email protected]
Starting February 25th, 2023, the warehouse will be open and it will be closing on March 9th, 2023.
Everyone attending SciFormal must do a minimum of 5 volunteer hours. Information on how to sign up for hours will be coming soon.
If you are a sponsor looking for more information, or a student who may know someone that could be interested in sponsoring the event, please email Anna Foreman-Willms, our Finance Chair at [email protected].
Science Formal is arguably the longest-standing tradition of Queen’s University. It has become one of the most highly anticipated events at Queen’s and offers invaluable project management, construction, and teamwork experience to the fourth-year engineering students for which the event is planned.
Fundamentally, the Science Formal is planned and executed each year as follows: the graduating students choose a theme for the event. The signature piece of the Formal is a huge structure built in the center of Grant Hall that varies year to year, depending on the theme. Past themes have been: Evening in Paris, Peter Pan, Old Hollywood, Mount Olympus, Venetian and Casino Royale.
Sponsorship is critical to the running of the formal each year, and we look to corporate sponsors for support in exchange for promotion of their brand and exposure to the graduating class of Queen’s Engineering and Applied Science. The event itself highlights the creative and collaborative nature of our students, and provides the graduating students with unparalleled undergraduate experience.
There is a public open house the afternoon before the formal, so the impressive structure and artistic work throughout the venue can be shared with the community.
Science Formal is arguably the longest-standing tradition of Queen’s university. It has become one of the most highly anticipated events at Queen’s and offers invaluable project management, construction, and teamwork experience to the fourth-year engineering students for which the event is planned.
The history of the Science Formal isn’t exact, but it is generally accepted that it dates to the early 1900s where it began as a simple dance. It was the class of 1923 that first included more ambitious visions such as large structures and waterfalls. More elaborate themes started in 1927 with the Japanese Gardens. By the 1940’s, the development of major themes for the event was firmly established and the Science Formal was – and still is – an incredible event.
Fundamentally, the Science Formal is planned and executed each year as follows: the graduating students choose a theme for the event and Grant Hall and select parts of Kingston Hall are decorated according to this theme. The signature piece of the Formal is a huge structure in the centre of Grant Hall that varies year to year, depending on the theme. Recent Formals have celebrated such themes as Sci’07’s Scientia Septem Semper Parvulus (Peter Pan), Sci’08’s Broadway with its own Times Square, Sci’09’s Corruptiornamentumnovern (James Bond) with an airplane and two watch towers filling Grant Hall, Sci’10’s Exordiumeximius, with a large Babylonian pyramid surrounded by the Hanging Gardens, Sci’ 11’s Solemnitasplagiariusterra (Planet Earth) with rooms incorporating the variety of nature offered by the earth, and Sci ‘12s Grandaeurbesorbis (Great Cities of the World).
The Science Formal provides the graduating students with unparalleled undergraduate experience in design, construction, creative thinking, problem solving, leadership, management, and teamwork. It truly is an incredible event, marking the culmination of 4 years of engineering at Queen’s.
The Science Formal CXV Open House will take place on November 4th, 2018 from 12:00PM to 3:00PM.
During this time, Grant Hall and Kingston Hall will be open to the public for walk-throughs, by donation to the United Way. This is a great time to take pictures with friends and family, and to really take in the results of all the hard work of the 4th year engineering students and their guests!
Communications Chair
(Questions, Hour Reductions, Website, and Social Media)
March 11th, 2023
Tickets will be $125 for students and $150 for guests.
You will get an email with a link to a google form attached. You will fill out that form and submit it, your submission will be time stamped. Tickets will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. If you want to bring a guest, you will indicate this on the form and you will be automatically entered into a raffle to receive a guest ticket.
Sunday, February 5th at 3:00pm the sign-up form will be sent to your email. It will stay open until next Friday, February 10th at 11:59pm.
4th and 5th year engineering students can buy tickets, as long as they are not on internship.
Yes, there is. Bursaries are available and will be awarded by the bursary committee according to EngSoc policy. You can find more information in the form here: Bursary Form