Societies and Traditions
Traditions include the pompous graduation ceremony and the Cortège procession, an annual public event.
- Chalmers Students' Union
- Chalmers Aerospace Club – founded in 1981. In Swedish frequently also referred to as Chalmers rymdgrupp (roughly Chalmers Space Group). Members of CAC led the ESA funded CACTEX (Chalmers Aerospace Club Thermal EXperiment) project where the thermal conductivity of alcohol at zero gravity was investigated using a sounding rocket.
- Chalmers Alternative Sports - a student association organizing trips and other activities working to promote alternative sports. Each year arranges the Chalmers Big Jump Open ski and snowboard contest taking place on the union square.
- Chalmers Ballong Corps
- Chalmers Baroque Ensemble
- Chalmers Computer Society – Disbanded in 2008 due to low membership.
- CETAC
- Chalmers Choir
- Chalmersspexet – Amateur theater group which has produced new plays since 1948
- The Cortège
- Chalmers International Reception Committee (CIRC)
- XP
- Chalmers Program Committee – PU
- Chalmers Students for Sustainability – CSS promoting sustainable development among the students and runs projects, campaigns and lectures.
- Föreningen Chalmers Skeppsbyggare, Chalmers Naval Architecture Students' Society (FCS)
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