On Monday, February 8, 2021, WICS collaborated with Hack at UCI to host a Resume Workshop. This workshop featured a special guest, Isadora Ocampo, who is a recruiter at GUESS. Isadora walked through a detailed presentation of resume best practices and advice on how to pass the initial resume screen.
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Today, club members of Commit The Change (CTC) have joined WICS for an information session that inspires many programmers to apply their knowledge and make a positive change. At first, they explained what are some common tech misconceptions. One of the most interesting one is the assumption that all tech
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This Monday, January 25, 2021, WICS held a Lean In Session to garner confidence and provide a supportive environment for members! Members were grouped into circles, where they stayed with the same people for each round. For the four rounds, they touched upon inspirations, confidence, gratitude, and reflection. Between the
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This Monday on January 11, 2020, WICS collaborated with ACM to host a mock technical interview preparation session. Following the club introduction, everyone was placed into four to five groups where they got to solve coding problems. There were a total of three rotations with a question in each one.
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On Monday, January 4, 2020, of Week 1, WICS held the First General Meeting for the winter quarter. WICS members and members from the ICS community came together to learn more about WICS, WICS Board and Committee, and upcoming WICS events! After the introduction, a light-hearted pop quiz was held,
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On Monday, December 7th, 2020 of Week 10, WICS hosted a festive-themed event where attendees could hang out, socialize, and destress for the upcoming finals week. All attendees were able to choose to participate in two short rounds of assorted creative activities within their associated groups which were led by
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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
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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
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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
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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
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