On Friday, February 7th, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike invited 20 female WICS members to attend the first ever CrowdStrike Women in Tech Open House. Attendees were given a tour of CrowdStrike’s Irvine office and participated in workshops and speaker sessions. Featured speakers include Director of Professional Services Tim Parisi and Vice
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On Monday, February 3rd, WICS welcomed representatives from VMWare to talk about their company and take audience questions. There were over 60 RSVPs for the event and everyone was excited to learn more about VMWare and the opportunities they have for students. After everyone grabbed a slice of pizza courtesy
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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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On Monday, January 27th, WICS invited Redfin representatives to come and participate in an open Q&A session! Around 40 people RSVP’d and roughly 60 people showed up. After everyone settled down and grabbing a slice of pizza, Marissa and Somwya from Redfin answered questions about the gender ratio in their
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On Wednesday, January 22nd, WICS held an event, Mock Technical Interviews, for all members to help improve on their interview skills. Interviewing is an integral part to finding a job in the CS industry and we want UCI students to be able to sharpen their problem solving skills, articulation of
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On Friday, January 17th, WICS hosted a mentorship social for all the mentors and mentees in the WICS mentorship program. The social included a Super Smash Bros Ultimate Tournament, in which 17 participants played, as well as board games and snacks for all the members. The event started with a
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On Wednesday, January 15th, 15 WICS members went to Paciolan to shadow current employees working at the company. When they arrived, they were greeted by Will Jang, the Director of Engineering. They were able to experience a real stand-up of the API team. After the meeting, the students and employees
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On Monday, January 13th, WICS, along with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), another Information and Computer Science Club on campus, hosted a technical interview preparation workshop. After grabbing dinner and getting the chance to socialize with other club members, students worked in groups to answer a series of potential
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On Monday, January 6th, WICS held its General Meeting – the very first meeting of the Winter quarter. 105 people RSVP’d to the meeting and over 150 people were in attendance. After grabbing a slice of fresh Costco pizza and soft drinks, WICS Co-Presidents Cheyenne Chavez and Sharon Hsu went
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On Monday, November 25th, WICS hosted a Friendsgiving Potluck where over 38 people attended. Attendees were asked to bring food, snacks, or drinks for everyone to feast on. Everyone ate and had a good time participating in festive activities such as a pin the tail on the turkey contest, a
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