On Monday, January 31, 2022, of Week 5, WICS held a Life After UCI Meeting on Zoom. We were fortunate to have not one, but five of our alumni discuss their transition from college student to full time employee, maintenance of a work-life balance, as well as some tips on
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On Monday, January 24, 2022, WICS invited Claire Froelich, a company representative from Postman, to give a workshop about APIs! After an explanation of the basics of APIs, servers/clients, and Postman, members had the opportunity to work hands-on with APIs on Postman by accessing, adding, and editing books in the
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On Wednesday, January 19th, 2022, WICS held its annual Mock Technical Interviews to provide WICS members and members from the ICS community the opportunity to improve their technical interviewing skills. With representatives from a wide variety of companies, from Amazon to Intel to Cisco, interviewees were able to gain experience
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On Monday, January 24, 2022, WICS held a practice session to help prepare attendees for the Mock Technical Interview event in the upcoming week. Attendees were divided into groups and given a variety of technical problems to solve- ranging from Data Structures to OOP concepts. Each group worked together to
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On Monday, January 3, 2021, of Week 1, WICS held the First General Meeting for the winter quarter. Around 50 students gathered on Zoom to learn more about WICS and WICS’ upcoming events, including, the Mock Technical Interview and Game Night! Attendees later competed in a light-hearted pop-quiz about WICS’
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During Monday of Week 10, WICS held its last event of the quarter: a WICSgiving event to bring our community of board, committee and general members together with some good food, fun games, and good times. After a brief overview of the event, and congratulating our graduating seniors, we dove
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This Monday, November 15, 2021, of Week 8, WICS held an In Person Game Night for the Fall quarter. It was an opportunities for members to socialize and have fun playing games. A few groups played Uno, and others played Exploding Kittens and JackBox. When a group was done, they
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Week 9, Monday, November 22nd, 2021 WICS held the virtual event: “Virtual Day in the Life of a SWE/PM/UI/UX Designer Panel,” inviting speakers from Amazon, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Workwell Technologies Inc., and Zillow to give insight on their roles, how they got there, and advice to those looking to get into
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This Wednesday, November 17, 2021, of Week 8, WICS held a Taco Bell Info Session via Zoom to learn more about the company and internship opportunities for Summer 2022. After a brief introduction from the Taco Bell panelists, the members were encouraged to ask questions to them through sli.do. Throughout
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On Monday, October 25, 2021, WICS partnered with ACM and Plaid to conduct a three-hour long coding competition. The competition was specifically designed to have something for all experience levels- the seasoned coders as well as the beginners. The evening started off with an introduction by WICS and ACM. Representatives
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