On May 6th and 7th, WICS’ Community Outreach hosted, in collaboration with PCWOC, a 2-day hackathon for beginner hackers. 13 UCI, community college, and high school students came to the UCI campus to work together to build a project from scratch. The participants attended a short workshop series introducing fundamental
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This spring quarter, the WICS Community Outreach Committee hosted our first-ever NetWICS, a conference aimed at introducing computer science career paths to high school girls. We had over 15 participants join our conference, where they learned about various topics such as web development and UI/UX. We invited members of WICS
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On Saturday, February 1st, WICS had launched the first day of our 4-week outreach program. Just Code It! is a series of workshops geared towards introducing the fundamentals of web development to middle school girls. Day 1 revolved around teaching HTML and CSS. Along with learning the basics of HTML
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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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