CSE Undergrad News

Come one, come all! We want you to vote for one of our lovely candidates for Vice Chair! Meet the candidates!

Vote Here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/180402

Elections for External Relations will begin early next week.

If you’re having trouble viewing the survey, please contact Elise – elised [at] cs [dot] washington [dot] edu .

Voting will close at 11PM PST on Saturday, October 13, 2012.

Final call for ACM Officer nominations!

Nominate someone you think would make a great officer (including yourself!) here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/179147

This WebQ will close today, October 5, at 11PM.

Hello CSE majors!

ACM is still looking to fill two officer positions – Vice Chair and External Relations Officer!

Know anyone with great ideas? A desire to help out with ACM? This is a great way to get involved with the department and bring your ideas to the table!

Nominate as many people as you’d like, including yourself, at this Catalyst survey: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/179147

Nomination period will be closed this Friday, Oct 5, at 11:00 pm.

rom: Andrew Davidson <adavid7@uw.edu>

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a nonprofit that runs robotics competitions for K-12 students around the world. Founded by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen, FIRST’s mission is to “transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders.”

This robotics program is wildly successful at getting kids engaged and excited about learning in science and technology. Kamen’s idea is that STEM fields should have heroes and role models that are just as captivating in our society to kids as sports and pop culture.

Kids work in teams to design, build, and deploy robots in tournaments. At the high school level, they build, code, test, manage projects, do fund-raising, marketing, and bring their creations to an arena competition. Imagine the excitement of a Husky game, but all about engineering. If you’ve been involved at all, you probably understand. If not, why not check it out this year? It is tons of fun.

The Washington chapter of FIRST (firstwa.org), one of the largest and most successful in the country, is looking for key volunteers to help organize events this season. If you are interested, more info is here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pnw-first/message/3049. Guaranteed good times!

Thanks.

.andy (Coach, FRC Team 4180, Roosevelt HS)

• Andrew Davidson

  Senior Lecturer, Human-Centered Design & Engineering

  Director, HCDE Educational Laboratories

+ University of Washington

  adavid7@uw.edu

Consider attending Seattle Give Camp, a weekend event where software developers, PMs, and designers come together to help charities. October 19-21, 2012

Here is the website, slide deck, and sign up form.

Seattle Give Camp allows students them to give back to the community and also gives them a chance to work with experienced professionals, network, and have something to put on their resume.  Also there will be some classes on real world topics such as Salesforce, CMS, and SEO.

Participants can bring sleeping bags and spend the night.  Food will be provided.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hope to see you there,

Michael Roshak MCDBA, MCAD, Ph.d (ABD)
(425) 405-0301

Anyone want to spend half an hour with two prospective UW freshmen?

Sunday, July 29
Anytime between 11am and 1pm.
Two high school seniors + parent
Show them the CSE building, and talk with them CSE and UW.

Email Raven if interested.

Hey everyone, we’re holding spring undergrad research night in a few weeks on  Tuesday, May 22nd at 4:30pm and we need about 5 undergrads with research experience to talk and field questions for other undergrads who are potentially interested in doing research.

If you’re interested in helping out, please reply. We’ll need you for about 30 minutes during the actual event.

http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/2012/04/acm-officer-elections-2/

Polls will be open for 24 hours. Act while supplies last.

https://catalyst.uw.edu/quickpoll/vote/timjv/6752

Nominate people you think are worthy to take the reigns of ACM by going to: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/timjv/162727

We plan to close the poll on April 9.

It’s that time of the year again, us ACM/W officers will be stepping down and we need to get new officers elected.

This is a great opportunity for a leadership role and departmental involvement!

Nominate people you think are worthy to take the reigns of ACM by going to: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/timjv/162727

You can nominate as many people as you’d like.

Specific officer roles will be determined in the future.

We plan to close the poll by April 23, 2012.