I hope June is going well so far! Here are some events that are coming up that you might be interested in:

1) Big CSters and FemPhys De-stressing Session (Tomorrow!)

2) Machine Learning Tech Workshop

3) Sticker Designs

4) Office Hours

WiCS is collaborating with FemPhys to bring you a de-stressing session! We know school can be pretty stressful sometimes, so hopefully you can take an opportunity to take a breather and de-stress with us for a couple hours. There will be a variety of activities including making face-masks, colouring, discussion circles, and more (if you are interested in making face masks, we suggest bringing a small container if possible). 

As always, food will be available :)

Note: This is a women-only event.

Akshaya and Evy are holding an introductory workshop, sponsored by BlackBerry, to machine learning where you will get to program your own machine learning algorithms and watch them in action! This workshop doesn't require much prior experience, but you should be comfortable programming basic algorithms (using for loops, if/else, etc). We'll be using JavaScript, but upper year mentors will be around to answer questions, so don't worry if you've never programmed in JavaScript before!
Call for mentors: If you feel you have some working knowledge of any concepts in machine learning, JavaScript, or both, we'd love for you to volunteer as a mentor at the workshop! Send us an email at wics-ugrad@lists.uwaterloo.ca if you're interested or have any questions.
Space for the workshop is limited so make sure to register soon!
Note: This is a women-only event.

WiCS is looking to expand their sticker collection! If you have a sticker design you'd like to submit to WiCS, we'd be happy to consider it! Be creative :) It doesn't have to have the WiCS logo on it, as long as the stickers are themed along women in tech. You can e-mail your submissions to wics-ugrad@lists.uwaterloo.ca with the subject WiCS Sticker Submission. 

We have office hours where we open our office for women and non-binary individuals to hang out at! We have two terminals for people to hack or do homework on, white boards to help you practice and solve problems on, space to study, a lot of snacks (please eat our snacks), and free swag (stickers, buttons, etc)! 

We hope to see you at our events :)

Good luck with your midterms!

Cheers,

Clare Ng

Director of Publicity

Women in Computer Science Undergrad Committee

University of Waterloo