On October 15, 2019, WICS hosted its annual event “WICS Games!” Company representatives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Raytheon, Twilio, and Paciolian joined WICS members in a night of networking and solving puzzles. Before the games started, participants got to enjoy some delicious food from Stone Fire Grill while networking with
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On Friday, October 11, 2019 WICS hosted an informal social for general members that were interested in applying to WICS Committee. All 12 of our board members and a few of our current WICS committee members gathered at University Town Center to meet interested applicants. We broke off into groups
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On Monday, October 9th, WICS hosted a mentorship mixer, the first of many mentorship events to come! Over 160 applied for mentorship, and over 110 attended! As the event commenced, attendees were given bingo cards, which encouraged everyone to mingle and find others with common interests or classes while more
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Last Monday, September 30th, WICS hosted its first General Meeting for fall quarter. One hundred fifty people RSVP’d for this event! Members had a chance to grab some pizza and drinks and socialize with other members, as well as committee and board members. Co-presidents Cheyenne Chavez and Sharon Hsu led
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On Monday, June 3rd, WICS had Amazon representatives host an Amazon Alexa Workshop. The engineers guided everyone through the process of creating a skill for Alexa! The skill that we were creating would allow us to ask Alexa: “Who is Pokemon 25?” or variations of that question. There were some
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On Monday, May 20th, WICS hosted a Game Night, where there were several games and activities that people could play and bond over. The games included online trivia games, card games, and role-play games. All of them required strategy and thinking, but were also very relaxing for the people and
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On Friday, May 17th, WICS members went to tour at the Slalom office in Irvine! We were greeted by Mike Hernandez and the Technology Enablement team, who showed us around the office and gave us a presentation of what they do as a business and consulting firm. We had a
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On Thursday, May 9, WICS was invited to visit Intuit’s campus in San Diego. Attendees received a warm welcome from Intuit’s team, which included our former president Katie Yeh! There were brief talks about the Tech Women @ Intuit program and internship/job hunting, followed by a panel with some of
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On Thursday, May 23rd, WICS members visited Paciolan for a job shadowing day! Twelve WICS members arrived at 9:30am and were greeted by Will Jang, the Director of Software Engineering, who took the members straight into shadowing his stand-up meeting. After the stand-up, the members and Paciolan engineers split up
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On Monday, May 13th, WICS members enjoyed dinner while learning how to properly format a technical resume from representatives from the Career Center! After the presentation, members were able to ask the representatives to look over their resumes and ask them for tips.