Whether you’re getting ready to kick off your freshman year of college, transfer to University from a Community College, or switch from a different major, there’s no way to do it perfectly. There are so many college, internship, and career tips Computer Science students hear throughout their journeys, but sometimes
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On Monday, February 24th, WICS invited panelists from Experian, Google, Redfin and UCI to talk about negotiations in the workplace. Over 50 students were in attendance – it was a full house. After getting some pizza and refreshments, the panel gave attendants insight into the different aspects of negotiating, including
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On Saturday, February 22nd, WICS finished their Just Code It outreach program. In these four weeks, we provided workshops that were geared for young middle school girls. The workshops taught students basic fundamental programming skills for website development. The lesson plan began with Day 1: CSS and HTML, Day 2:
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On Monday, February 10th, WICS hosted two engineers from Amazon who shared insight into the recruitment process at their company. There was a good turnout of over 50 people, which completely filled the room. After everyone got their pizza and settled in, the Amazon representatives they started their presentation with
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On Friday, February 7th, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike invited 20 female WICS members to attend the first ever CrowdStrike Women in Tech Open House. Attendees were given a tour of CrowdStrike’s Irvine office and participated in workshops and speaker sessions. Featured speakers include Director of Professional Services Tim Parisi and Vice
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On Monday, February 3rd, WICS welcomed representatives from VMWare to talk about their company and take audience questions. There were over 60 RSVPs for the event and everyone was excited to learn more about VMWare and the opportunities they have for students. After everyone grabbed a slice of pizza courtesy
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On Saturday, February 1st, WICS had launched the first day of our 4-week outreach program. Just Code It! is a series of workshops geared towards introducing the fundamentals of web development to middle school girls. Day 1 revolved around teaching HTML and CSS. Along with learning the basics of HTML
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On Monday, January 27th, WICS invited Redfin representatives to come and participate in an open Q&A session! Around 40 people RSVP’d and roughly 60 people showed up. After everyone settled down and grabbing a slice of pizza, Marissa and Somwya from Redfin answered questions about the gender ratio in their
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On Wednesday, January 22nd, WICS held an event, Mock Technical Interviews, for all members to help improve on their interview skills. Interviewing is an integral part to finding a job in the CS industry and we want UCI students to be able to sharpen their problem solving skills, articulation of
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On Friday, January 17th, WICS hosted a mentorship social for all the mentors and mentees in the WICS mentorship program. The social included a Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament, in which 17 participants played, as well as board games and snacks for all the members. The event started with a
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