CSE Undergrad News

Hello Everyone,

Please join us for a post Grace Hopper discussion in CSE 305 this Wednesday from 4:00-5:00pm.
This event is centered around the broader discussion of diversity and inclusion in the tech field, and all CSE students are encouraged to attend, even if you didn’t get the chance to attend GHC this year. We will talk about our experiences at the conference, use the topics brought up at GHC as guidelines to reflect on some of the amazing accomplishments women have achieved in technology, and more. You can find the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/274849956475564/

The Resume Review Workshop will be held Wednesday, October 10^th, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm in the CSE Atrium.

This workshop is designed to allow you to gather tips from the experts to turn your resume drafts into documents that will help land your dream job or internship.

All you need to attend is a few printed copies of your resume – anything from a rough draft to almost-finished product is fine. Show up anytime between 3:00 and 5:00 pm (plan on 20 minutes per review) to share your resume with 1 or more recruiters or technical interview experts from several of our affiliate companies, both large and small. These experts will provide resume advice to get your resume in great shape for the upcoming recruiting fair on October 23^rd and 24^th.

ACM is excited to introduce you to the new CSE Undergrad Slack!
You can join the slack at Uw-cse-ugrad.slack.com.

We hope the Slack will be a good way for you to to find your community in the Allen School. To keep this chat inclusive, we have also made some rules for the space.

1. Be respectful to each other. Don’t harass anyone in the chat. It’ll lead to immediate banning. You can notify the ACM leadership if you see any behavior that you would like to report.
2. Abide by the academic policies of your classes and of CSE. Some examples of violations are academic misconduct, posting to trade spots in classes, offering incentives for a spot in a course, and more. All posts that violate academic policies will be deleted.
3. We have created channels for CSE courses offered this quarter. Feel free to join them and find your study buddies! However, be warned that Slack is not approved for FERPA data. Joining the channels and making posts about your classes are public data and we are not liable for the privacy of your activity in this workspace.

Take some time to browse the channels! Introduce yourself on #introductions and get to know other CSE undergrads. Join channels related to courses you’re taking or interested in such as #cse311. Also check out the channels for your admit cohorts, or fun channels like #pawgawwlen. If you don’t see channels you’d like to join, you are welcome to add new ones 🙂

We’d love to hear any feedback about the slack which you can send to acm-officers@cs.washington.edu.

All CSE undergraduates who are considering pursuing an internship or full-time employment in 2018-19 (and this should be you!) should not miss our Allen School sponsored Industry Panel.

Tuesday, October 2^nd, 5:30-6:30 p.m., GUG220

Industry Panel Session

Come hear from folks that recently graduated from the same program you’re currently in! This is an opportunity to learn from their experiences and gain insight into how you may want to focus your remaining time in the department to move towards your career goals. Bring your questions and your curiosity!

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Welcome to the fall quarter! Please be sure to check the undergrad calendar for current events such as tech talks and other industry related events: https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/ugrad/advising_calendar

Tuesday, October 2^nd, 5:30-6:30 p.m., GUG220

Industry Panel Session
Come hear from folks that recently graduated from the same program you’re currently in! This is an opportunity to learn from their experiences and gain insight into how you may want to focus your remaining time in the department to move towards your career goals. Bring your questions and your curiosity!

Wednesday, October 3^rd, 11 a.m.-12 noon, table in Atrium

Open Venture Office Hour
Joe Wallin (startup lawyer) of Carney Badley Spellman, and Randall Lucas (venture investor) of Voyager Capital, will resume their open venture office hour first Wednesdays at 11 am in the CSE atrium. Any school affiliates with an interest in starting or joining a startup company are welcome to join to discuss things like what it takes to form a corporation, how to raise investor capital, what kind of roles there are for CSE grads in startups, etc.

Wednesday, October 3^rd, 5-7 p.m., Commons

Startup Confidential Talk Series
Reminder for this event! Please do RSVP soon so we can make sure we have enough food for everyone!

Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the inaugural “Startup Confidential” dinner and speaker series, Wednesday October 3rd at 5-7PM. This monthly informal speaker series focuses on real stories from the Seattle world of startups, from ideation, to spinning up a new company, to operating, to exiting. We’ll be inviting speakers with a variety of experiences, from rocket ships, to exploded rocket ships, to acquihires.

Dinner starts at 5PM, talk at 6. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food.

Our first speaker will be Benn Bollay (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennbollay/), CTO-in-residence at the AI2 Incubator in Wallingford. Benn co-founded Union Bay Networks, where he worked as CTO and led the technical team into an acquisition by Apple.

Thursday, October 4^th, 2:30-3:30 p.m., table in the Atrium

Madrona office hours
Matthew Witt from Madrona will be here to answer any questions you may have.

Thursday, October 4^th, 6-7 p.m., EEB125

Amazon Tech Talk
More information to follow

Friday, October 5^th, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., table in the Atrium

Deloitte meet & greet
Stop by and chat with team members from Deloitte and the opportunities at Deloitte.

Churchill Scholarship Information Session with Executive Director Michael Morse

10/3/18, 4:30pm, MGH 136
RSVP to attend at https://expo.uw.edu/expo/rsvp/event/773.

The Churchill Foundation is offering an information session for UW students interested in spending a year at Cambridge. Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in STEM majors are encouraged to join us on Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 4:30pm in MGH 136 for an informational session with Dr. Michael Morse, Executive Director of the Churchill Foundation. Dr. Morse will share information about the Churchill Scholarships at the University of Cambridge, which fund US students for a year of Master’s study and research in STEM fields.

UW’s application process for this program opens each spring, so learning about the program now will give you a good head start on the next application cycle. Eligible students must be: US citizens who are seniors or those who have graduated within the past 12 months, and must gain admission to Cambridge through the normal admission process (note: GPA of 3.7 or above is recommended for this scholarship).

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Melody Kadenko <melody@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:25 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] info meeting for Batman’s Kitchen on Thursday, 4th October 2018
To: ugrads – Email Alias <ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, grads – Email Alias <grads@cs.washington.edu>

Hi!

We are Batman’s Kitchen, the UW cybersecurity team, and we are looking for new members!

Interested in learning about security issues and/or being part of a competition team? We hold regular meetings, build/hack/break stuff, learn about the latest security topics, and compete in CTF competitions throughout the year. You don’t need any prior experience to join the team — all you need is an interest in security and/or CTFs plus a willingness to learn. Our group is an interdisciplinary group of students from CSE, EE, iSchool, pre-engineering, Business, and other UW departments. We collaborate with the other two UW branches (Tacoma and Bothell) and organizations/companies in the Seattle area. Our team has been in the top 1% of all (10,000+) CTF teams in the world for the last four years.

Our Info Meeting is next Thursday, October 4th, CSE building rm691, at 6:00pm. We welcome everyone. At the Info Meeting we’ll talk about the topics we’ll cover in the coming year (e.g., lockpicking, IoT, privacy, tamper-evident, etc.), the type of competitions we do, hands-on labs, workshops, local hacker groups, and Puget Sound resources.

Even if you can’t make it to the meeting, sign up for our mailing list at https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/uwctf and check out our website at http://uwctf.cs.washington.edu. If you have any questions, email me and I can tell you more.

Melody Kadenko

Advisor of Batman’s Kitchen

Paul G Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

melody@cs.washington.edu