SPRING 2024
April 29th, 6pm
JCC 502
BINGO NIGHT
April 28th, 12PM
Prez Lawn
PICNIC ON PREZ
April 26th, 6pm
Women's Center
DUMPLING MOVIE NIGHT
April 6th, 10AM
JCC 302
INTERNSHIP OR JOB SEARCH ESSENTIALS
Join us for our last meeting of the semester for a bingo night. We will have tons of prizes, from Sonny Angels to Owala Water Bottles, Squishmallows, and more!
Looking for a break from studying for finals? Join us at Prez Lawn and unwind with some boba and paint kits with friends!
Join WICS for a fun movie night at the Women's Center to watch 'Legally Blonde' and enjoy some dumplings and ice cream.
Looking to enhance your resume, effectively navigate job boards, and master the art of networking? Join us for a workshop led by Sunita Lokuge, Senior Associate at Columbia Business School (and Tufts alum). Plus, enjoy some free pizza!
March 1st, 12pm
JCC 140
THE STATE OF TECH RECRUITMENT
February 24th, 12:30pm
JCC 260
GALENTINES COOKIES N CRAFT
January 9th, 7:15pm
JCC 170
WICS SPRING GIM
Looking for an internship or job? Join WICS in collaboration with the Career Center for free pizza and insights into the current tech recruitment landscape.
Join WICS for a night of decorating cookies and crafting bracelets and keychains. There will be Valentine's Day-themed frosting and sprinkles. Come meet fellow CS students and celebrate belated Valentine's Day festivities!
Would you like to enjoy free boba and meet new people? Join WICS for our Spring 2024 GIM and connect with other women in computer science.
SPRING 2021
Past Events
May 5, 12:00Â PM
Zoom
SUMMER INTERNSHIP: WHAT I WISH I KNEW
Are you about to embark on your first summer internship in tech? Or, are you an upperclassman who has internship advice or wisdom you'd like to share with others? Perhaps you don't have an internship lined up for the summer yet, but you want to learn more about what the experience is like.Â
Regardless of your summer plans, come to this discussion-based event next Wednesday, May 5 to either share or hear advice for new summer interns!
April 27, 7:30 pm
Zoom
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT PANEL
Are you interested in a career in product management? Come and hear from panelists from Wayfair, Hubspot, and Soofa on how they got into the field and what advice they have for students looking to enter the field.
April 2, 1:30 - 3:30 pm @ CC
Room 209
Come stop by the CC this Friday 4/2 to pick up a de-stressing kit from WiCS! The bags are filled with face masks (the relaxing kind, not the pandemic kind), stress balls, chapstick, and coloring books! Bags will be handed out on a first-come, first-serve basis.
GRAB AND GO DE-STRESSING KITS
March 29, 6 pm
Zoom
AAPL SUPPORT EVENT
Come and join WiCS and the AAPI community for an open conversation surrounding the recent and prolonged hate crimes and racism experienced by the AAPI community. We hope this can be a time for AAPI-indentifying students to come together and support each other through sharing experiences, asking questions, and opening conversations.
March 19, 2 pm
Zoom
New to networking? Don’t stress! Come practice making connections and start crafting your elevator pitch in a low-stress, fun environment.
SPEED NETWORKING
March 8, 12 pm
Zoom
WHENÂ & WICS:Â STEM PANEL
Interested in a career in engineering or computer science? Join WHEN, Society of Women Engineers, and Women in Computer Science for a panel on what it’s like to be a woman in STEM. Hear from three amazing Tufts alumni on their experience in the workforce! Our three panelists are Lexi Walker, a software engineer at Deep Mind, Bianca Capretta, a software engineer at Spotify and Emma Meehan who works in biotech at Pfizer!
February 8, 12 pm
Zoom
WICS SPRING GIM
Join WiCSÂ for our Spring GIM to learn about opportunities for Women in Computer Science this semester! We will also be starting Cluster sign ups, and who knows, there may even be a treat for those who come!!
FALL 2020 EVENTS
Past Events
December 11
Zoom
Social Event for some fun with our club members
WICS VIRTUAL ESCAPE ROOM
December 3rd, 6PM
Zoom
MITRE ALUMNA PANEL
Join WiCS for a panel with Tufts Alumnas who have now joined MITRE. The alumnas joining us have different years of experience and come from multiple departments at MITRE. Get more insight into the company, the hiring process, and transitioning from student to full time employee.
November 18th, 6PM
Zoom
Panelists from the Broad Institute, GE Healthcare, GRAIL, Boston Scientific, Activ Surgical, and Asimov. Open to all majors, attendees will receive SWAG.
HEALTHCARE X TECH PANEL
November 12th, 6PM | Zoom
UNCONSCIOUS BIAS WORKSHOP
Unconscious bias is one of the biggest challenges in tech. Whether you are a woman in tech who has experienced bias, an ally who is trying to learn how to be less biased towards your fellow classmates and colleagues, or a Professor who wants to gain more insight on the issue we are hosting a panel with Slalom Build to learn how to “check your blind spot”.
October 27, 6PM | ZOOM
STR TECH TALK
Tufts alumna Emma Pannullo, a senior researcher at Systems and Technology Research, will be joining us for a tech talk on Tuesday (10/27) at 6:00pm EST. Her talk will be on “Autonomous Decision-making for Radio Frequency Systems”, and she will also share her experiences as a woman in tech and a member of the STR team. At Tufts, Emma was an electrical engineer and part of Tufts Jumbocode!
October 22, 6PM | Zoom
DINNER TALK
Come have dinner with us! On Thursday, October 22nd at 6pm, WiCS will be holding a virtual chat, and you can (and should!) bring dinner to eat with us. This is an opportunity for our wonderful members to get together with each other and talk about classes, jobs, life... really anything you want! We hope to see you all there!!
October 7, 6:30PM | Zoom
PERSONAL PROJECT WORKSHOP
Want to start a personal project but don’t know how to get started? Need collaborators to help make your project idea a reality? Want to learn about tools such as Github and Jira? Tufts Women in Computer Science is hosting a virtual “Personal Project Workshop” at our WICS Study Space, 1st Floor VH, Halligan Sococo (https://app.sococo.com/meet/Floor1VHWiCSStudySpace). The workshop will be guided by Professor James Intriligator, who will give you the best tips and advice to start your own project effectively.
SPRING 2020 EVENTS
Past Events
March-May
COVID-19 OUTBREAK
Hiatus of on-campus events. WiCS offered monetary aid to the Tufts Mutual Aid Fund, hosted an online game night, and stayed in touch with members online.
Feb 26, 7:30-9PM @ Robinson 253
#PERMISSIONTOFAIL WORKSHOP WITH IROBOT
Come and meet with iRobot this Wednesday (02/26) from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at Robinson 253! The topic of this panel discussion is on #PermissionToFail where engineers from iRobot will share honest truth about their path to a career! Free Thai Food.
Feb 22, 1-2:30 PM @ CC 112
Come meet and hang out with other members of Women in Computer Science! There will be board games and free boba.
WICS BOBA BONDING
Feb 19, 7 PM @ Halligan 102
Interested in cybersecurity? JumboSec (Tufts Cybersecurity Club) and WiCS are co-hosting an alumni panel with speakers Alice Lee, Allie Clifford, Juliana Furgala and more! Free food and drinks provided.
MIT LINCOLN LABS ALUMNI PANEL
Feb 8, 9am - 4pm @ 30 JFK St., Cambridge, MA
BOSTON CYBERNETICS WORKSHOP
This hands-on workshop teaches the fundamentals of software, software vulnerabilities, and how to leverage those vulnerabilities to gain control of software, and thus the systems on which they run. Simply put, hacking. Students will learn hacking for fun and profit. No prior experience needed. Limited Capacity: 18 people.
January 25th, 12 - 2 pm @ SoGo Multipurpose Room
WICS BRUNCH
We are hosting our GIM Brunch where you can meet other women studying CS at Tufts while eating pancakes, mini quiches and other delicious brunch food. You will learn about the events we will be hosting during the semester, the companies that will be coming to campus, and meet the eboard and alumni! This event is open to all genders and all majors so feel free to bring your friends.