On Monday, November 30th, 2020 of Week 9, WICS hosted a Day in a Life of a SWE + PM + UI/UX Designer panel with WICS alumni! Guests, Anjali Krishnan from Cisco and Fern Lukban from Facebook represented software engineering, Kristen DeVore from Microsoft represented program management, and Sam Applebaum
Read More
On Monday, November 23rd, 2020 of Week 8, WICS, SHPE, and SWE co-hosted a panel on diverse women in tech. Allison Suarez from Lyft, Melissa Tullues from EA, Lauren Benitez from Goldman Sachs, Nicole Beckage from Intel, and Aleeza Roque from Apple all shared their personal experiences in the tech
Read More
On Thursday, 19th November, 2020, WICS conducted a Research Information session with Professor Wayne Hayes. Professor Wayne Hayes shared about the research projects that he’s leading from image analysis of cells to graph theory’s relation to biological networks to image analysis of spiral galaxies. Many of his students have gone
Read More
On Monday, November 16th, 2020 of Week 7, WICS hosted a web development workshop introducing the basics of HTML and CSS to general members. To enhance the learning experience, we went over the steps for creating and styling a personalized homepage, coding its elements and seeing the results in real
Read More
On Monday, November 9th, 2020 of Week 6, WICS Mentorship members attended Mentorship Reveal to find out their mentorship families and mentor and mentee groupings for the 2020-2021 academic year! Members were divided into their Mentorship Families with each member of the family given an entity to guess and find
Read More
On Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 of Week 5, WICS members attended a Q&A session where general members brought questions to current WICS Committee and Board members. Members learned about the Corporate, Executive, Marketing, and Outreach committees. With the WICS Committee application due in just one week, members got the opportunity
Read More
On Monday, November 2nd, 2020 of Week 5, WICS and ICS Student Council members joined by a Blizzard representative had an information session to cover roles at Blizzard, but more specifically their online multiplayer server platform- Battle.net. They were able to answer very intricate questions and I think it was
Read More
On Thursday, October 29th, WICS invited Northrop Grumman representatives to present a professional development webinar. Lexi Hoffman, a technical recruiter, went over how to create a resume from scratch, from what the main components of a great resume are to some insider info that Northrop Grumman likes to see from
Read More
On Monday, October 26th, 2020 of Week 3, we hosted a Trivia Night filled with jeopardy style questions and answers. This was a fun social event where we got to interact with general members and got to know more fun facts about each other. There were seven teams in total
Read More
On Thursday, October 29th, 2020 of Week 3, Amazon hosted an “Ace Your Interview” workshop. Kenny Huynh, a software development engineer at Amazon (and also UC Irvine alumni!) spoke to us about what the online assessment and interview process was like at Amazon. We were able to learn more about
Read More