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CSC June Newsletter

Greetings to all members of the UW Computer Science Club! We hope your spring term is going smoothly, whether you are going through a co-op term or studying on campus. Our goal as a club is to make sure that your spring term is memorable. We aim to run events and encourage students to connect and socialize, increase technical and academic interest with workshops and talks, and provide a safe academic learning and growth environment. Follow us on our social media for event updates! The links are at the bottom of our newsletter.

Upcoming Events in June

CSC Circles

CSC Circles is Back!

We matched participants in groups of 4 to create recurring social circles based on their interests 🎮, availability ⏰, location 📍, and more!

👀 Members of CSC Circles will be a part of a vibrant community within CSC, in which you have the chance to build meaningful connections over the course of a semester and hopefully beyond 🚀 

The deadline to sign up for this event is over, however CSC has organized many more interesting events for you this month, so make sure you follow us on social media !!

CSC Soiree Movie Night

🎥 This is a pretty chill movie night for the CSC members before the midterm week starts. This is the perfect way to relax and have fun before the upcoming assessments. We are aiming to show a 2.5 hours movie in a location that will soon be disclosed. 

📅 This event is on June 10th from 7:00 PM until 10:00 PM. The details will be posted soon, so keep tuned for further updates. 

👀  This is the perfect opportunity to forget about the midterm stress and even find new friends. The sign-up form will be posted soon! 

Time Travel Debugger Talk

📣Are you interested in knowing more about the future of debugging? CSC is hosting an exciting talk on Time Travel Debugging, which will be hosted on Tuesday, June 14th! 

👀Alum and CSC member Kannan works at replay.io, which is the startup that is building the Replay time travel debugger. He is our speaker for the event and he will be giving an informative and intriguing talk on “How Replay built a cloud-based time-travel debugger”.

📍The location is TBD so make sure to follow our Instagram and Discord for more details to come!

Code party + Midterm Scream

📣Are you looking for a chance to practice coding with friends and discover where your skills can improve? Come to Code Party + Midterm Scream to enjoy a fun coding session with your peers! There will also be midterm reviews and study time if you enjoy group study and exchange ideas for practice questions. You will be able do a one-minute long scream after the code party to relieve stress!

📅This event will take place on June 17th, but the location is TBD. If you are interested in the event, make sure to follow our Instagram and Discord to receive updates on the details.

(NOT) 73 Questions with CSC

📖 Inspired by the iconic 73 Questions Interview videos from Vogue, CSC filmed the (Not) 73 Questions with CSC and posted them on the CSC Instagram. From “When was the last time you cried” to solving math equations, interviewees were asked a series of fun, rapid-fire questions about their student life!

 

👀 The executives that took on the hot seat were VP Eric Huang and President Juthika Hoque, but be sure to stay tuned to watch a professor take on the challenge! 

 

📣 The first two interviews are still accessible on the CSC Instagram feed, so be sure to watch them and follow along in the (Not) 73 Questions series!

After Hour + Cali Panel + Git Internals Talk 

There are more events coming in later June, such as our After Hour, Cali panel, and Git Internal Talk. More details including the event details, the date and the location are going to come in the near future, so make sure you're following our IG or our discord server for updates!

Our May Recap

CSC Bonfire

📣 CSC + WICS Bonfire was a gather event held jointly by CSC and WICS. It provided a chance for students to meet new friends and talk with like-minded individuals in person.

🔥The bonfire took place outside at the Laurel Creek firepit on May 29th.

🎶More than 200 students had a wonderful time with lots of food including pizza and snacks, and they own roasted marshmallows to make smores! Thank you to Jam Network for bringing their instruments to jam along to!

CxC Summit - ML Edition

📣 Interested in learning about Machine Learning? Want to gain more experience by deploying NLP or image processing projects? Join CSC's first Clubs x Companies Summit to learn and network with some UW tech clubs and prestigious companies!

💻 This weeklong online learnathon will include beginner-friendly workshops and networking events. Participants can tackle different ML challenges created by the clubs and companies, ranging from binary classification to sequential image prediction. There are prizes too! 

❗This event is CURRENTLY running, until June 5th. You can still sign up to participate in challenges posted by companies and clubs!

Sign up using this link: https://bit.ly/3KMDftE!

Bootcamp

📣 The Spring 2022 Bootcamp Event has looked for mentors to take on resume critiques, host mock interviews, and help prepare students for their co-op search! This was an awesome opportunity for anyone to give back to the Waterloo community and make an impact on a student’s co-op search.

📅 A resume review event happened on May 14th from 6:00pm-10:00 PM EST and a mock interview event on May 21st from 6:00pm-10:00 PM EST.

ℹ️ People had the opportunity choose to participate at either event for a select number of hours!

❗️All sessions took place virtually on our Bootcamp Discord Server! Students had a chance to meet with mentors 1 on 1 to discuss their resumes/conduct their interviews.

CSC Spring BOT Event 
- Speed Friending

✅ We kicked off the spring term with CSC’s BOT event: In-person Speed-Friending event and the CSC circles kickoff! People were able to meet others in groups of 3 or 4, with around 10 minutes to talk. 

 

🏁 We had more than 100 people show up for our event! Thank you to everyone who showed up!

Here is the link to the rest of the photos taken at the event:  https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1-8XA41100Y8SbY4jhwAnGNBAnRKm0yTJ

Subscribe to our Computer Science Club Calendar for upcoming events https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gcal