On April 22, WICS had our second Battle of the Mentorships for our 2018-2019 Mentorship program! Thirty mentors and mentees enjoyed refreshments before preparing to battle in a series of competitions. Our Vice Presidents Cheyenne Chavez and Sharon Hsu instructed the teams through a total of 7 games including: human
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On April 6-7, many WICS members attended AthenaHacks 2019, an all-female hackathon at USC! Attendees of the hackathon formed teams and collaborated to create a hack within 24 hours. Two of the teams made up of all-WICS members won an award during the showcase! One team (Amanda Chou, Diana Grande,
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On April 15, WICS hosted a Grace Hopper Info Session, to educate WICS members on the inspirational conference coming up this Fall! Several WICS Committee members that have had the opportunity to partake in Grace Hopper sat on a panel to answer questions from both the audience and moderator, offering
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On April 8th, WICS hosted an information session with Paciolan, a company provides sports and entertainment venues with the software needed to facilitate automated ticketing. Around 50 people attended this event. The presentation was given by 2 women representatives from Paciolan: Katie Huang, a UX Designer and Amy Thelen, a
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On April 1st, WICS held their quarterly first general meeting where we present a rundown of what events we’re planning for this quarter. Members grabbed some food and socialized before the presentation. Co-president Cris Agerton led the meeting, informing attendees of what WICS has in store for Spring Quarter as
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January 26, 2019 – February 16, 2019 This winter WICS partnered with Erica Hsueh from Northwood High school for a second session of Bytes of Code! The National Center for Women in Technology awarded Erica with another round of funding for her successful Aspire IT program. This time we spent
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February 13, 2019 – March 29, 2019 During this winter, WICS worked together with Avika Patel, an NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Award recipient from Woodbridge High School to arrange yet another successful AspireIT program. In this year’s #innovate program hosted at Lakeside Middle School, we conducted a series of seven
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On Wednesday, March 20, 2019, WICS hosted their end-of-the-quarter potluck. Friends brought lots of delicious food to share such as dumplings, fried rice, rotisserie chicken, pasta, brownies, and cookies. Yum! We sat around in tables and bonded with our fellow ICS students. We worried about our upcoming finals and chit-chatted
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On March 6, 2019, WICS hosted a Self-Care Session, with fun and de-stressing activities for all the members and the students that attended. We included several stress-relieving activities assigned to each table, and there were fun songs and videos played in the beginning to create a stress-free mood. The main
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On February 27th, WICS hosted an information session with Slalom Consulting, a business and technology consulting firm, of which around 20 people attended! We met Mike Hernandez and Ernie Campos, both talent acquisition managers at Slalom, as well as Lindsay Bert, a talent acquisition analyst. Slalom representatives introduced themselves with
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