On Monday, April 5, WICS hosted two roundtable sessions with representatives from Chipotle. We started by going around the Webex meeting room sharing the technical roles and new technologies that we were interested in. After that, attendees listened to a complete overview of Chipotle’s hiring process, which included Hackerrank problems,
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On Monday, March 29, WICS held the First General Meeting for the spring quarter. The meeting kicked off with an introduction to the current WICS Board, WICS Committee, and the new 2021-2022 WICS Board. After the introduction, we announced the WICS event that we will be having for spring quarter.
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On Monday, March 8th 2021, WICS organized a pomodoro-style study night to help close off this stressful quarter! During our Zoom meeting, participants were able to choose the rooms that corresponded to the classes that they were studying for. Every group had their own breakout room, where the participants studied
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This Monday, March 1st 2021, WICS held a self-care session to encourage students to take a break during this stressful time of the quarter. Members were able to join various breakout rooms dedicated to different self-care activities. One breakout room was dedicated to Jigsaw Puzzles, another to origami, another to
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On Monday, February 22, special guests from Intel joined our general Monday meetings to teach us more about how ideas turn into projects. They started off the meeting with amazing energy and showed off their cute intel virtual backgrounds. Afterwards, they began presenting about RBHE (retail, banking, hospitality and restaurants,
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On Friday, February 19, various mentorship families came out to continue working on their family website! The mentors and mentees were given an overview of how to use HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap to help set up their Home and About Us pages. Families were given time in breakout sessions to
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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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