Late September 2022 Newsletter

Event Highlights:

Truth Values One Woman Play

This year, Truth Values Play is coming to Waterloo to present: “A true-life tale that offers a humorous, scathing insightful, and ultimately uplifting look at the challenges of being a professional woman in a male-dominated field.”

Writer/performer and “recovering mathematician” Gioia De Cari creates “refreshing delights of humor, even compassion” (EDGE Media) as she charmingly brings to life more than 30 characters “each rendered on an empty stage that hints at the countless stories similar to hers by untold.” The play will be followed by an enlightening panel discussion

Read more about the play here: https://uwaterloo.ca/truth-values-play/

Event Date: Saturday, September 24th, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm EDT

Location: Theatre of the Arts – Ring Road, Waterloo, ON, N2L, Canada

Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/truth-values-one-girls-romp-through-mits-male-math-maze-tickets-401413758357

WiCS x OpenText Networking Lunch and Panel

What began as a University of Waterloo spin-off, OpenText is a leader in document management for businesses. Today, OpenText has over 15,000 employees in more than 60 offices around the globe and is currently hiring for Software Developers, Technical Writers, Quality Assurance Specialists, UX/UI Designers, and more, with 40 open internship positions for Winter 2023 and Summer 2023.

Join WiCS and inspiring female leaders from OpenText for a networking lunch followed by an engaging panel where they will explore topics relating to imposter syndrome, unconscious bias, and being a female leader in a male-dominated industry.

Event Date: Wednesday, September 28th from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm EDT

Location: DC 1301

Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/405410071437

LeetCode with Little WiCS

Worried about co-op interviews? Little WiCS has you covered! Come to our LeetCode event for tips and practice.

Event Date: Friday, September 30th at 4:00 pm

More details will be sent out over social media.

CAN-CWIC

It’s time for CAN-CWIC 2022! CAN-CWIC is a Canada-wide celebration of Women in Computing. It is being held in Toronto on October 21st and 22nd. The applications for WiCS funding to attend are now closed, but we encourage students to attend using their own funds. Registration costs only $125 and includes transportation between Waterloo and the conference, hotel accommodation on Friday night (shared with another attendee), Friday banquet, and Saturday breakfast and lunch.

Please check your course schedule and midterm schedule and make sure that you can be away from Waterloo on October 21st and October 22nd before registering to attend. We hope you consider attending! Have a great rest of your week.

Due Date: Students requesting hotel accommodations must register by Friday, September 30th, and all other attendees must register by Monday, October 10th.

Event Date: Friday, October 21st and Saturday, October 22nd

Apply Here: https://www.can-cwic.ca/registration.html

WiCS x Amazon Small Group Mentoring Event

Amazon is hosting a small group mentoring event that allows you to have a conversation with a woman Amazonian in a small group to ask all your questions about jobs in tech, how to improve your options and opportunities, how to think about your future career, what the culture is like, and so much more.

Event Date: Thursday, October 27th, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Registration Link Coming Soon

WiCS Innovation Fund

The WiCS Innovation Fund supports student-initiated activities such as hackathons, workshops, conferences, and much more, that support women and non-binary students in computing. WiCS will give out two awards worth $500 this fall, and another two in the winter!

If you’re interested, send an email to wics@uwaterloo.ca with an explanation of the use (e.g., organizing an event, attending a conference or hackathon) and what you will get out of attending. The Fund will sponsor future events only (not past events).