On Tuesday, May 24th, 2022, WICS hosted a lunch with some professors of ICS! With warm welcomes of delicious sandwiches, soda pop, and some classic chip favorites, Professors Shindler, Wong-Ma, Navarro, and Pattis joined fellow students for some lunch. Some highlights include Professor Wong-Ma sharing her summer plans to travel
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On Monday, May 23, 2022, WICS held a relaxing karaoke session for their members to destress and relax for Week 9. Members were seated at different tables and were able to requests songs to be queued to be played over the speakers, with song lyrics projected to the front. Members
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WICS held a successful casino-themed game night on Monday, May 16, 2022. Classic casino games, like Blackjack and Slots, were mixed with other party games, like Uno and Bingo, to give members a chance to wager and win tickets to enter into our raffle. This was a great opportunity for
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On Monday, May 9th, 2022, members of WICS gathered in front of the big screen to listen to representatives from Crowdstrike talk about their work in cybersecurity. Although the representatives told their stories through Zoom, the members got to come together in person to listen, ask questions, and enjoy some
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On Friday, May 6, 2022, WICS held Mentorship MAYhem. At this event filled with entertaining games, light-hearted competition, and lots of laughter, WICS mentorship families were able to destress together after a busy few weeks of midterms and projects. The evening started out with a Quizizz on all things Nickelodeon,
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On Monday, May 2, 2022, WICS held a Midterm Mixer where members were able to study for midterms and plan their Fall 2022 class schedules together. Additionally, there was a spreadsheet where people could ask for or provide advice and insight on different classes. Overall, it was a very academically
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On Monday, April 25th, 2022, WICS held an info session with company reps from Inscripta! WICS members came to learn more about Inscripta and the work that they do in bio-tech with CRISPR. The reps gave a presentation on their journeys into the bioinformatics field (including a UCI alum!) and
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On Monday April 18, 2022, WICS hosted the Projects at Chipotle event in partnership with Chipotle! WICS members joined together in person and connected with representatives from Chipotle through Zoom to dive deeper into the various projects Chipotle does, specifically Extras through the Chipotle app. There were representatives from the
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On Monday April 11th, 2022, WICS held a movie night social for members to hang out in a casual space and get to know each other. We watched the new Disney movie Turning Red which details a preteen girl’s attempts to go to a concert amidst her mom’s meddling and
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