On Monday, January 14th, WICS hosted a Toy Hacking Workshop Training with Dr. Garnet Hertz. Over 20 people attended with bags full of toys to break open! This workshop was intended to train students who were interested in being involved in a similar workshop for kids in elementary and middle
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The first Tuesday of our Winter Quarter, WICS hosted a general meeting for students to reunite and start talking about preparing for the quarter! Over 30 students (and two friendly male ICS students) came and played games, drank hot chocolate, ate snacks, and shared class schedules to get organized for
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We’ve been so busy planning our Fall, Winter, and conference events that our blog has fallen by the wayside! Here is an overview of the rest of our events from Fall Quarter 2012: • Web Development workshop with Anthony Alagna (Slides from the workshop are here) • A “Study, Dinner
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WICS has recently been announced as a winner of the Symantec sponsored Round 5 Student Seed Fund award from the National Center of Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)! As a winner, WICS will receive $750 to host a series of “Hacker” workshops for girls in elementary schools and middle schools
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The Google discussion panel was incredibly informative and the panelists were very forthcoming with information about being a woman in CS, what it’s like to work at Google, and how to be a good Google candidate. We had over 45 members attending the event, and many enthusiastically rushed up to
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We had a fantastic turnout of over 40 attendees at this event! Our members really appreciated the breakout sessions, resume review, and interview practice!
Thanks to all of our members that attended Masimo’s “The Hidden Job Market” presentation. Remember it’s important to reach out and make connections, it make get you much further than just putting out resumes!
We had a fantastic turnout for our Mentorship Program. We printed out 35 mentee mixer sheets and we ran out! We had a mixer and ‘speeddating’ event so our mentors and mentees could get acquainted and find out who they best got along with. We’re looking forward to hearing more
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Before our trip to Grace Hopper, WICS hosted its first general meeting. We had a great turnout of about 40 people, with a much higher representation of women than previous years! Following our presentation of this quarter’s events, we pulled out the card games, and for the next hour and
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Last Saturday four of our members had the privilege to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore, Maryland. The trip was incredibly inspiring for all of us and we agreed that we will raise funds to send UCI students to Grace Hopper every year. We met
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