On Monday, November 26, WICS hosted its very own casino night! In order to relax after midterms, students gathered with food and drinks to play all kinds of fun games. The competition got heated in blackjack, Egyptian War, and especially Mario Kart, where players bet on who would be first!
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On Monday, November 19, WICS hosted an Academic Planning Workshop to help students with their class schedules and four year plans. With the enrollment window coming up, this was the perfect opportunity to recommend classes and tools to help with the upcoming registration. Some of the tools recommended to students
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On Thursday, November 15th, WICS hosted an information session with MSC Software. Our speakers, Stephanie and Juliana, shared their experiences in the job recruitment process, achieving graduate degrees and exposed attendees to different career opportunities for students in computer science. To get some insight on what kind of career path
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On Monday, November 5th, WICS teamed up with ACM to host mock technical interviews! Upperclassmen with extensive interview experience volunteered to share their expertise with those who signed up. Attendees were given a coding question that could come up during a typical technical interview. They were encouraged to think out
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The long-awaited mentorship reveal finally took place on Monday, October 29th. As our mentorship theme this year is Pokemon, mentors and mentees started off their adventure with a given slip of paper with a hint about their family type and three letters from their assigned Pokemon. They went around the
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On Thursday, October 25th, WICS collaborated with Deloitte Consulting, SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers), and NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers), to host an invite-only Coffee Chat event. Around 12 Deloitte practitioners came to talk to students who have applied to Deloitte Consulting’s open positions. It was a great
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On Monday, October 22nd, WICS hosted a Blizzard Info-Session. We had over 70 attendees come and learn about what it is like to work at Blizzard! Ellen, the University Relations Recruiter, shared information about internship and new grad opportunities as well as tips on how to apply successfully, and she
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On Wednesday, October 17th, WICS hosted an Amazon Workshop at the Student Center. We had over 60 attendees come and hear about opportunities at Amazon as well as one of Amazon’s Engineer’s background! Our speaker, Lanvi, shared her journey on how she became an intern at Amazon and converted into
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On Monday, October 15th, WICS hosted the 5th annual WICS Games, an event where company representatives from Google, Blizzard, Intuit, and Amazon along with 90+ students in attendance came together in teams to solve logic and coding puzzles! Each team consisted of a company representative who acted as the mentor
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On October 3rd, WICS hosted the first event for their Mentorship Program, a mixer for mentors and mentees to get to know each other better. Over 140 students applied to our program and over 100 attended! The event first began with Human Bingo which helped the attendees talk to new
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