CSE Undergrad News

Calling all entrepreneurs!

CoMotion Labs would like to invite you to attend Fundamentals for Startups, this Friday, April 14, 2017. Our Fundamentals for Startups series aims to provide our UW community with access to leading experts that can close the gap in startup knowledge. These startup sessions will give startups, teams, students and community a chance to learn practical knowledge, as well as provide hands-on training, and networking opportunities with professionals in various branches of business.

This week, we are pleased to have Hien De Young presenting on Recognizing Mental Blocks to Breakthroughs. With so many unknowns in working in a startup, it can be challenging to see beyond problems at hand. Hein’s presentation will focus on how to overcome these blocks which ultimately will help to grow your startup.

Hien is Principal at DeYoung Executive Coaching and Consultancy. Hien has 20+ years of experience as a human resources executive working with startup Founders and CEOs to build companies, and pursue fundraising. This includes a startup that resulted in $300m in venture investment including an IPO. Hien now focuses on working with entrepreneurs to scale their business’ to its fullest potential. In addition, Hien serves as  CoMotion Labs mentor, providing our startup members with valuable insight and guidance.

Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!

For future sessions, please visit: http://comotion.uw.edu/events/upcoming-events#/?i=1

Space is limited! If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to Mercedes Luna, mluna@uw.edu.

Best,

Karen

KAREN LEIKIN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS

CoMotion at University of Washington CoMotion Innovation Center, Box 354950 4545 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98105 206.616.9540 | fax 206.543.0586 krleikin@uw.edu | comotion.uw.edu

Hello, CSE ugrads! A team in UW Medicine is looking for students to help develop app used in medical research. Unpaid, but credit is possible.  If interested, please contact Glenn directly!

“Can we please advertise for students who would be interested in assisting with the final phase of my mobile application project?  I need 3-4 people who should be fluent in Java and are well versed in database systems.  These students will have preferentially taken CSE 344 or CSE 414.  The task involves building the backend comprised of SQL storage, building an API and the parsing SQL to JSON format.

Thank you for all of your assistance with this very important project.

Glenn B. Schubert, MPH
Program Manager
NIH StrokeNet Regional Coordinating Center
Northwest Stroke Trials Network
325 9^th Avenue Box 359775
Seattle, WA 98104-2499
206-744-5826“

Reminder: CSE alumna Stephanie Smallman and Professor Dan Grossman have a very special presentation tomorrow about managing your finances! I highly encourage you to attend, especially if you want to do something meaningful with your future tech salary — like travel, support causes you care about, or plan for a family or your future. Stephanie and another alum gave this talk a couple years ago, and it was both practical and entertaining. 🙂

CSE Financial Hacks 101
Thursday, April 13, 5pm
JHN 102

Topics:

• Your post-graduation paycheck: how to manage a tech salary
• Money and happiness: how to get the best bang for your buck
• Finance basics: how to set yourself up for financial success

Hey everyone!

Hello, CSE students! On Friday 4/21 and Saturday 4/22, UW will host hundreds of middle- and high-school students for Engineering Discovery Days. We need volunteers to help lead CSE activities and help visitors find their way around the building.

Sign up now to volunteer for Engineering Discovery Days!

Volunteer shifts are available throughout Friday and Saturday, for a minimum of 1 hour. If you have questions, email jmunroe@cs.washington.edu.

Thanks!
Raven

Just a reminder that TONIGHT is the final day to nominate ACM officers!

• Who would you like to see in office next year?
• Know someone with great ideas?
• A proactive person who loves being involved in the CSE community?
• If you’re interested in running, don’t feel shy to nominate yourself!

Nomination link: (https://goo.gl/forms/KEcLk43AKCL8B96p2).

All nominees will be informed in the following days by email, and elections will happen soon after.

Come hang out with the cool kids!

The ACM Execs.

Reminder: Join other students and Microsoft professionals on a volunteer trip to Ecuador this summer!
August 11-20, 2017
through Timmy Global health, sponsored by Microsoft

Apply online by Friday!

• The trip runs Aug 11-20, including travel days, free time, and 5 days working in clinics
• No medical skills necessary. 🙂  Participants must be enthusiastic about working with a close and diverse team in a challenging environment.
• Spanish skills are not necessary, but native and fluent Spanish speakers are highly encouraged to participate!
• The trip cost is $1,325 plus airfare (roughly $900). Microsoft will provide scholarships for some participants. Scholarship decisions will be made before you need to commit to the trip.
• Participants must commit to the trip by May 12
• Most intern hosts are flexible with requests for time off, but you should talk to your host about this now (or before committing to the trip)

More info:
Read more trip details here.
Read about the Timmy nonprofit organization here.
Talk to me (Raven)! I’ve volunteered twice with Microsoft-sponsored Timmy trips.

Come learn about CSE’s 5th Year Masters Program and about pursuing your PhD in CS. The first 45 minutes of the programming will feature information about the 5th Year Masters program and the second 45 minutes will go over general PhD admissions nuts and bolts and will feature a panel of CSE PhD students.

April 25th

3:30 -5:00PM

Gates Commons

It’s that time of year again- ACM elections are coming up!

Who would you like to see in office next year? Know someone with great ideas? A proactive person who loves being involved in the CSE community? You can now nominate the officers for the 2017-2018 school year using this survey.

If you’re interested in running, don’t feel shy to nominate yourself!

Specific officer roles will be determined in the future. We will nominees with next steps in a week. This survey will close exactly a week from today, on April 12th, 2017 at 5pm, so make sure to have your nominations in!

ACM Execs.