Austin Younger Member Happy Hour Social

August 14, 2025

Author: Erin McDuffie

To kick off National Engineers Week, each February Austin’s local chapter of ASCE YMF organizes a networking happy hour for engineers across civil engineering. This year, the event was held at Meanwhile Brewing and had attendees of various companies, organizations, and disciplines within engineering. YMF partnered with other engineering professional organizations and civil engineering companies alike in order to put on the event, allowing for over 275 attendees to mingle and learn more about engineering in Austin.

At this year’s happy hour, YMF organized multiple activities including an icebreaker bingo, a sponsor scavenger hunt, and a few raffles to win prizes. Attendees were provided with a bingo card to meet and learn about each other, and a QR code to complete the scavenger hunt. The provided QR code had a riddle about one of the event’s sponsors. There were other QR codes with the sponsor’s logo placed around the event with the other riddles. Each correct riddle provided a letter which then turned into a phrase, and the first few who completed this received a prize. The event also included a lego raffle question and a general raffle for additional prizes.  All in all the happy hour was a huge success, and YMF’s social committee is planning our next event! Be sure to keep up with Austin ASCE YMF via instagram @ymfaustin and LinkedIn.