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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On Wednesday, March 20, 2019, WICS hosted their end-of-the-quarter potluck. Friends brought lots of delicious food to share such as dumplings, fried rice, rotisserie chicken, pasta, brownies, and cookies. Yum! We sat around in tables and bonded with our fellow ICS students. We worried about our upcoming finals and chit-chatted
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On March 6, 2019, WICS hosted a Self-Care Session, with fun and de-stressing activities for all the members and the students that attended. We included several stress-relieving activities assigned to each table, and there were fun songs and videos played in the beginning to create a stress-free mood. The main
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On February 27th, WICS hosted an information session with Slalom Consulting, a business and technology consulting firm, of which around 20 people attended! We met Mike Hernandez and Ernie Campos, both talent acquisition managers at Slalom, as well as Lindsay Bert, a talent acquisition analyst. Slalom representatives introduced themselves with
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On February 20th, WICS members went out to Santa Ana for a social break at Round 1 bowling! There were roughly 20 people who joined WICS for this event. We began the social by eating dinner at the food court in Main Place Mall before heading over to Round 1
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On February 19th, WICS and VGDC invited Amanda Cullen, a PhD Student at CATS Lab, Candace Thomas, a Senior Encounter Designer at Blizzard, Nikki Crenshaw, an associate UX researcher at Blizzard, to host a panel at UCI of women involved in the video game industry. We went through questions about
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On February 13 WICS members took a break from studying and got together to play a game of Jeopardy. Everyone got to have some delicious pizza before the game started. About 25 people attended and there were four teams of 4-5 people. Players had a lot of fun answering questions
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On February 6th, WICS members met up in preparation for everyone’s second least favorite time of the quarter, midterm season! Members studied in groups for their respective midterms while eating lots of study snacks. This event was a great way for members to bond and get ready for midterms together!
On January 30th, WICS mentors and mentees got together for some friendly competition and to destress from midterms at Battle of the Mentorships. After munching on yummy pizza, our 50 students were ready to split into teams of 6 and 7 to compete! Mentorship families tested their teamwork and inference
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