On Wednesday, February 14, 2024, during Week 6, WICS hosted a lovely mentorship event in celebration of Valentine’s Day! Participants immersed themselves in various creative activities to ignite the spirit of affection. From exploring watercolor painting to crafting clever pick-up lines for their valentines/galentines, and enjoying delicious snacks and refreshing
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This Monday, February 12, 2024, WICS hosted a Valentines-themed social in collaboration with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Members sat in chairs around the room to make cards and goodie bags for their favorite people. Some people used ribbons and googly eyes to creatively decorate their cards, and others
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On Monday, February 5, 2024, WICS held a mock technical interview prep event in collaboration with ACM. In this competition styled event, members worked in groups to solve coding questions similar to those asked in technical interviews. There were 3 rounds, and each round tackled different coding concepts. In the
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On Monday, January 29, 2024, WICS collaborated with Video Game Design Club (VGDC) to host a fun competition where teams would work together to pitch an idea for a new game. To make things more interesting, members were to fill in provided MadLibs templates, without knowing what their new game
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On Monday, January 22nd, 2024 of Week 3, WICS hosted an InternQuest Session to help members develop a better understanding of how to land a summer internship. A quick presentation and examples were given on the importance and strategy of building a strong resume and Linkedin. Members were then paired
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Today, WICS welcomed everyone back to winter quarter with a fun general meeting about what WICS does and how to get more involved in WICS. At the end, members got to play a crossword puzzle game where they used what they learned during the meeting to win a fun little
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This Monday, December 4th, 2023, WICS hosted a Winter “WICS”erland to kick off the holiday season and to celebrate the end of the quarter. This festive event included gingerbread house making, delicious crepes, and some fun bonding time for mentorship families (and anyone else who wanted to get in the
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On Monday, November 27, 2023, WICS partnered with company Pacific Life and held a workshop focused on developing presentation and public speaking skills in professional settings. Representatives from Pacific Life gave insightful information on general speaking tips, using the PAR (Project, Action, Result) method, and exercising nonverbal communication. Attendees were
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On Monday, November 20, 2023, WICS and Data @ UCI hosted a speaker panel to showcase four accomplished women in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The panelists — Kate Deyneka, Nadia Ahmed, Fulya Ozcan, and Shringar Sharan — captivated the audience through sharing their invaluable
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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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