On Friday, March 3rd, 2023 WICS hosted the first workshop for a 4-workshop series, Build Your Own Website (BYOW), focusing on Figma for our Mentorship families. Mentors and mentees worked together to learn how to use Figma to create a wireframe for their very own portfolio website.
During the winter quarter, WICS’ Outreach Committee worked with Cypress College and Magnolia High School students to embark on a 3-day boot camp filled with technical workshops, professional development, and team-building activities. The cohort of 11 girls learned a variety of skills deep-divided into topics that were completely new to
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On Monday, February 27th, 2023, WICS hosted an event for Taco Bell Company representatives who gave their pieces on how Taco Bell serves up innovation. The company combines in-store kitchen technology with the cloud. Some of the representatives were UC Irvine alumni and offered their career paths and the steps
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On Wednesday, February 22, 2023, WICS held an Informational Session & Women in Tech Panel with General Atomics Aeronautical System (GA). GA is a defense and diversified technologies company that is a world leader in creating Unmanned Aircraft Systems. These aircraft are remotely piloted and are useful for military, security,
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On Monday, February 13, the CoStar Group, one of WICS 2022-23 sponsors, gave tips and tricks about preparing for interviews. They talked about the different types of interviews, good follow-up practices, and held a Q&A session for any questions that students had. CoStar Group brought insightful knowledge about how to
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On February 6th, 2023, WICS collaborated with Cyber@UCI to present an introductory cybersecurity workshop. Students learned the basics of cybersecurity and were given some tips to get started. The workshop began with a follow-along demonstration, as everyone worked together to hack a website (with specific permission to do so!). Upon
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On Friday, February 3, 2023, of Week 4, WICS held a Mentorship Field Day in Aldrich Park. Mentors and mentees met up to play games and earn points for their mentorship families. The event started with Love My Neighbor, where mentors and mentees formed a circle and switched places with
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This Monday, January 30, 2023, WICS held a Conversations with CrowdStrike event, an AMA session to give general members the opportunity to ask industry professionals about their experience working at a cybersecurity company. Members met with five CrowdStrike employees over Zoom and discussed the transition to their company, work culture,
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On Wednesday, January 25, 2023, WICS held its Mock Technical Interviews event over Zoom. Employees — from companies Cisco, CrowdStrike, Expedia, Google, Northrop Grumman, Slalom, Taco Bell, and Uber — were invited to give students mock interviews. Attendees had the chance to practice their technical interview skills and interact 1-on-1
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This Monday, January 23, WICS and ACM hosted a collaborative event in which participants worked in groups with rotating proctors to practice solving technical interview problems together. Split into three 18-minute rounds, each round had the proctor at each table present a problem and give feedback as the participants discussed
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