On 7th April, we successfully hosted our first Code Jam hub. 15 participants tackled the challenging exercises provided by Google while getting to enjoy free pizza and nice company. We would like to thank everyone who attended the hub – we hope you had fun, achieved your personal coding goals and of course to see you again soon!
On 1st March we successfully hosted a hub for the online qualification round of Hash Code (a team programming competition organized by Google for students and industry professionals across Europe, the Middle East and Africa).
13 participants who were spread across 4 teams joined the hub. After almost 4 hours of great team work, all teams were able to submit a solution to the problem statement. Well done everyone!
The speakers for the Ada Lovelace Celebration were:
Maral Kalajian (Watty) – Obsession is the reward
Edith Ngai (Uppsala University) – Green Internet-of-Things for smart cities
Amandine Le Cahain (DICE) – A look into video games development
Panagiota Fatourou (University of Crete, Greece) – Harnessing the Difficulties of Synchronization
Ruth G. Lennon (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland) – I think I can I know I can
Mariana Bocoi (Klarna) – The tools and woes of the trade
Alaa Rahimi (Freespee) – Are you curious to know how we teamed up to build our latest product?
Victoria Wagman (4Elks) – How to learn what you didn’t know that you want to know
Thank you all for a great event!
The coding workshop was another great success. Thank you all!
Mentors:
Next week’s Wednesday (8th of March) it’s time for the International Women’s Day! What better occasion to get together and watch Hidden Figures? Join us to watch an inspiring and true story on three African-American female pioneers!
“HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)-brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.” (https://
We will gather either on Tuesday (7th of March, at 17:30) or on Wednesday (8th of March, at 17:30 or 20:00) depending on when most of you have time. Comment, drop us a message, and let us know if you want to join! Exact date & time will be announced by Friday evening.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Welcome to our next meeting the 6th of April, 16:00 o’clock. The meeting will be held at ITC in room 1406.
The main topic for the meeting is the WomENcourage project: the poster presentations as well as other related tasks, such as PR etc.
If this project sounds interesting to you or if you just want to join and listen, feel free to drop in!
Hope to see you there!
Our March meeting will be on the 17th of March, 16:00 o’clock,
room 1345. During the next meeting we will start organizing our upcoming
projects. The projects that are on our TODO list so far are:
1) Women’s Day Celebration (8th of March)
2) Hackathon (October)
3) Helping students to send in a poster to Womencourage 2016 (before summer)
4) Lecture series (not yet determined)
5) Christmas Party (December)
If any of these projects interest you or if you just want to join and listen
to what we do, feel free to drop in!
Hope to see you there!
We welcome you to join us to celebrate the international Women’s day at Uplands nation on Tuesday, the 8th of March. Come and learn more about us and what we are doing, or just come and have a nice evening while celebrating the importance of this day.
Everyone is welcome, men or women, undergraduate or graduate student!
We plan to meet up outside Uplands at 18:00 o’clock and enter together. A nation card is however required to enter.
If you don’t have one, the chapter would be happy to help you to get a guest card, provided that you are able to pay the fee (75 SEK) yourself.
Sign up for the guest card through this google form, latest by Monday 17:00 o’clock:
http://goo.gl/forms/8Qo1cquHvf
Hope to see you there!
It’s time to kick off spring with an UU ACM-W chapter meeting!
Where? ITC room 1345
When? Thursday the 25th of February at 17:00
The meeting is open for everyone! You are welcome to come if you just want to listen in or if you have some ideas for upcoming events.
Hope to see you there!
Our annual election meeting was held Monday, 1 February, to elect officers for the term 1 February 2016–31 January 2017. Present were six of the chapter’s voting members. Continue reading 2016 Election Results