On Saturday, November 18th, 2023 of Fall 2023, WICS held an API workshop with Postman. Led by WICS members, Tiffany Cheung and Sophia Shaw, participants learned all about the basics of APIs and the world’s leading API platform, Postman. Upon arrival, participants enjoyed a breakfast buffet from IHOP before jumping
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On Monday, November 13th, 2023 WICS held Intern-taining Conversations where members could ask former interns questions about their experiences landing their internship and what they got out of it. For five rounds, members rotated through different interns to get varying perspectives on the internship process. Members walked away feeling more
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On November 11th and 12th, WICS Community Outreach hosted a Scratch-a-thon for 5th to 8th graders from OCEAA and El Sol Science and Arts Academy. On the first day, students got to learn the basics of Scratch, covering topics from motion and looks to control and sensors to operators and
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On November 6th, 2023, we hosted our amazing mentorship reveal! We first introduced this year’s mentorship fam theme, superheros! Then mentors and mentees played the handband game where we would ask 20 questions to find their superhero mentorship families! Once in their families, we did ice breakers and made a
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This Monday, October 30, 2023, WICS held a How To Network session with General Atomics! It started with information about General Atomics, what they do, and their internship program. General Atomics representatives also discussed talking with companies and tools that are often used by students to network with other companies.
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On Wednesday, October 26th, 2023, WICS organized a panel for students interested in joining the WICS Committee. It included one member from each of the committees: Marketing, Outreach, Internal, and External. They were there to listen and answer questions. The panel aimed to provide information about the various roles and
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On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, SHPE, WICS, and NSBE hosted a successful Networking Dinner Night from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Donald Bren Hall (DBH) Room 6011. The event brought together 10 prominent companies, allowing attendees to network with potential recruiters. Participating companies such as TEC, Corelogic, Cordoba Corporation, and more
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On Monday Oct, 23, WICS held its 7th annual WICS Games event, featuring representatives from Northrop Grumman, CoStar Group, and WICS alumni Jena Bada. Students and representatives collaborated to solve stimulating and challenging general and coding questions, giving students the opportunity to network and learn about the industry from these
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On Monday, October 16, 2023, WICS teamed up with Design at UCI to hold a beginner-friendly Figma Workshop for members to explore UI/UX design! Members were provided with a Figma file and led through an extensive live tutorial on how to create mid-fidelity wireframes of Facebook. Closing off the night,
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This Monday, October 9, 2023, WICS hosted a mentorship mixer for prospective mentors and mentees to meet each other! Mentors and mentees were grouped into circles and given a set of icebreaker questions to answer within a five minute timeframe. There were a total of eight speed friending rounds, where
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