Ceneka

An increasing absence of company visits by students resulted in the foundation of the association CenEka. A small group of students founded CenEka in a bar.

CenEka was officially recognised as the official association for computer science and electrical engineers by the UGhent in 2008. With Valerie Taerwe as first female president, CenEka started its second academic year.

In the academic year 2012-2013, the first 5-year lustrum was celebrated with Jens Van den Broeck as president.

After some years with unknown history, some friends decided to boost CenEka with a fresh board of 8 member with president Achim Vandierendonck.

Thanks to this enthousiastic board, CenEka grew faster and the famous CenEkaramba and Breakpoint parties were born. Also, CenEka supported the WVK with its own run team in 16-17. With excellent PR to companies bedrijven, CenEka connected with sponsors allowing to think bigger. Also, thanks to good PR to other associations, CenEka maintains good relationships with Zeus WPI, VVN and VTK.

The board grows to 10 persons and CenEka start to engage more 3rd bachelors to its activities. As a consequence, the next year a board of 14 members was chosen with president Dennis Maes.

The first techtrip was organised by Willem Himpe and resulted in a huge success. Willem arranges university, company, en cultural visits in London such as visits to Facebook and Twitter.

Despite the corona crisis, CenEka manages to found the UGhent Racing team together with the support of PKarus. More than 50 enthousiastic students of different disciplines will work on this promising project with team captain and CenEka-president Yarne De Munck.