Winter Ball is in 3 days! This Friday from 5-8pm celebrate the end of midterms and dance the night away in the atrium
In the meantime, practice your dance moves. Just in case you want to learn how to dance without embarrassing yourself, here is a tutorial on How to Dance Without Embarrassing Yourself.
Jk. Just have fun. We’ll probably embarrass ourselves too… 🙂
Winter Ball is this Friday! We hope you’re as excited as we are!
To make the event as awesome as possible, we really need your help. If you could spare an hour or two, we would appreciate it a ton. Please fill out this Catalyst survey with your availability and we will be forever grateful:
Happy Monday! Hope midterm week is off to a good start. There are some sweet tech talks this week and of course, the upcoming WINTER BALL on Friday! Hope to see y’all there.
Summary:
· Wednesday, 2/11: Microsoft tech talk – The Internet of Things by James Whittaker, 6:30 p.m. in EE105
· Thursday, 2/12: Faithlife tech talk, 6 p.m. in EE105
· Friday, 2/13: Winter Ball
Details:
Microsoft Tech Talk
THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING James Whittaker Author. Xoogler. Craft Beer Lover. Former Professor. Stage Presence Coach. Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. One of the Most Fascinating People You Will Ever See Speak. “In a ketchup world, Whittaker is Sriracha hot sauce.”
Location: EE105 Time: Doors at 6:00pm, talk will begin at 6:30pm
Oh, and it gets better. Enjoy some free sushi and then enter our raffle for your chance to win a $100 and Nokia Purity Headphones! microsoft.com/university
Faithlife Tech Talk
Tech Talk with Faithlife/Logos Bible Software Come learn how our software developers and development interns are building the world’s best Bible study tools — and how you can join them!
Thursday, February 12th 6 – 7 pm EE105, University of Washington
Dinner provided
We’re hiring! Logos.com/Careers
WINTER BALL!
ACM UW is proud to present the first ever Winter Ball, brought to you by Whitepages.
Put on your best fancy-schmancy dress, ball gown, tux, suit-and-tie or classy career fair swag shirts, and dance the night away under the atrium.
Grab a date, a group of friends, or your significant other and come enjoy the first ever Winter Ball.
NOTE: Bringing dates or formal attire is not a requirement but rather a suggestion!
Winter Ball is this Friday!!!
To make the event as awesome as possible, we really need your help. If you could spare an hour or two, we would appreciate it a ton. Please fill out this Catalyst survey with your availability and we will be forever grateful:
The first annual UW ACM Winter Ball is only one week away! We hope you’re as excited as we are, because it’s gonna be epic. Like more epic than when your code compiles perfectly on the first try (“WAIT?” you ask. “THERE ARE THINGS MORE EPIC THAN BEAUTIFUL CODE?” Yes. Yes there are. You spend too much time in the labs…)
To make the event as awesome as possible, we really need your help. If you could spare an hour or two, we would appreciate your help a ton. Please fill out this Catalyst survey with your availability and we will be forever grateful:
https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/kgoel/260360
Also, a reminder: Dates and fancy attire are not a requirement for Winter Ball, but rather a suggestion! In case you need some help asking your potential date out, Programmer Ryan Gosling has got you covered 😉
Have questions about internships and want some advice from upperclassmen?
Join your fellow CSE undergrads who have interned at companies like:
– Google
– Microsoft
– Hulu
– Facebook
to hear their internship experiences, learn how to land great internships and how to get the most out of your internship experience.
WHERE: CSE Room 305
WHEN: Tuesday, February 3rd (TODAY) 4:30 – 5:30pm
RSVP on Facebook
—– PANEL —–
Brian Griffith, 3rd year, interned at Hulu Seattle, will be interning at Dropbox SanFran, and lately been obsessed with eating Butternut squash.
Karolina Pyszkiewicz, 2nd year, interned at Microsoft in Redmond and Google in the Bay Area. I’ll be interning at Google again this summer and at Facebook next fall – both in the Bay Area. I love peaches.
Clint Malcolm, I’m a 4th year. Ive interned at facebook twice, once in the bay area and once in seattle. I will be working at indeed after graduation. I’ve TA-ed 14x and 154 since freshman year. I am currently assisting with research into diagram assisted learning specifically with geometry problems. I spend my free time in marching and symohonic bands.
—– DETAILS —–
This will be an open Q&A so come prepared with questions.
This will be a great chance to get real-world advise from those who have been in your shoes.
NOTE to attendees: The atrium will be extremely crowded during this panel. Please use the elevator (or stairs) in the EE building to come to room 305
This year, ACM is pleased to announce Winter Ball! Put on your best fancy-schmancy dress, ball gown, tux, or suit-and-tie (or if you prefer, your prettiest pair of T-shirt and jeans) and dance the night away under the atrium.
Where: CSE Atrium
When: 2/13, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
There will be dinner and drinks (for those 21+, must have id), music, and more!
Grab a date, a group of friends, or your significant other.
Admission is free for UW ACM members, $5 for non-members and guests.
Special thanks to WhitePages for sponsoring the event
Zillow and the department of Computer Science & Engineering at the
University of Washington, with participation from the White House, U.S.
Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD), will host a weekend hackathon at Zillow’s HQ, February 6-8, 2015.
Participating developers and designers will be tasked with creating
transparency around thousands of local and federal data sets, to help
people in their housing decisions. As part of the event, participants will
have access to newly released government data sets on topics like federal
housing programs; apartment buildings with accessible apartments; and
transit information. In addition, Zillow will make available its data on
home values and rents.
Zillow co-founder Rich Barton will open the event by sharing his experience
in the tech and housing sector and his success in bringing power to the
people across a number of industries. After a day and a half of hard work,
participants will present their solutions to a judging panel of local tech
leaders, entrepreneurs and federal government officials specializing in
big/open data.
The winning team will receive a $10,000 prize.
The event registration is here: https://hackhousinghackathon.eventbrite.com
Here’s what’s happening this week!
Summary
· LinkedIn tech talk, 1/26/15: EE125, 5:45 p.m. (Please RSVP)
· eBay info session, 1/26/15: MGH, 5:30 p.m.
Details:
eBay Info Session
With nearly 100 million active users and hundreds of millions of active product listings, eBay is the world’s most vibrant and dynamic online marketplace. Come to our InfoSession to learn more about our company and opportunities we are hiring for!
LinkedIn Tech Talk
Speaker: Brandon Chesla, LinkedIn Engineering Manager
Come find out about LinkedIn and our opportunities. Food will be served and we will be raffling off gift cards! SPACE IS LIMITED! Please RSVP – Kevin Alicbusan: kalicbusan@linkedin.com. We look forward to meeting you!
For those of you at the Startup Networking Night, sorry for the delay!
Free pizza is on its way 🙂
In the meantime, take advantage of networking opportunities!