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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On January 23rd 2019, WICS had the pleasure of meeting engineers and recruiters from VMWare at our VMWare info session. About 30 general members came, including many graduate students and students who have never been to a WICS event before! The event comprised of a presentation, which allowed us to
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On January 22, WICS teamed up with UCI Division of Career Pathways to host our annual Mock Technical Interviews! Many students came by during the day to get some interview experience from real industry professionals. Company representatives from Amazon, Originate, and eBay conducted technical interviews for attendees, asking real questions
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On January 16th, WICS hosted an Interview Prep Workshop in DBH 6011. There were about 40 students attending the event. Before the presentation, students were greeting each other, going over the questions that had been passed out, and eating pizza. WICS’ Internal Vice President Cheyenne Chavez and External Vice President
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On January 9th, WICS hosted the first general meeting of 2019 in DBH 6011! There were around 50 students who attended this event. Students were all happily chatting with each other and eating pizza before the presentation started. WICS’ Co-Presidents Princess Pancubit and Crystal Agerton welcomed all members and introduced
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