OCTOBER 23 - OCTOBER 30 NEWS JOIN OUR SLACK CHANNEL WECE now has a Slack channel! This will be a way to streamline communication between WECE members and committees, as well as a place for important announcements and upcoming events! Join our general channel here. Directors will be sending out more information to their committees about their committee channel. WECE STUDY GROUPS Want to find other people in your classes to study with? Join WECE study groups as we create Slack channels for common classes that our members are taking. Fill out this form here about your class schedule this semester by Friday, October 27th and more information about joining the groups will be sent out shortly! WECE IN THE NEWS WECE was given a nice shoutout in the news by UIUC alumni Paula-Angela Mariano, who says she joined WECE because "they understood exactly what I was going through in one of the most male-dominated fields in engineering here, and we needed to be supportive of one another…they were a great community for me to join and be a part of." Check out the article here! EVENTS GOLDMAN SACH WOMEN IN ENGINEERING BREAKFAST CALLING ALL WOMEN IN ENGINEERING! Curious about what it's like to be a woman in the engineering field? Come have breakfast with Goldman Sachs' engineers to discuss their experiences, hear advice, and get more information on the GS Engineering Division! Cracked will be served! Fill out this form to reserve your seat. More information can be found on our Facebook event here. If you have any questions or concerns, contact cchoi18@illinois.edu. Where: ECEB 3002 When: Monday, October 24th, 9AM-11PM OCTOBER LEAN IN Come to our first Lean In meeting to meet new people, have great discussions about important topics, and build a community of support among the women in tech. Food will be provided. Where: ECEB 2013 When: Wednesday, October 25th, 6PM-7PM TASTY THURSDAY Come hang out with WECE in an informal setting. This week, we will be providing advice on course selection to get you ready for next semester! Insomnia cookies will be provided! Where: ECEB RSO Office (1016) When: Thursday, October 26th, 3PM-5PM WECE x WCS HALLOWEEN PARTY Come out for an unBOOlievable evening with and WECE and WCS! There will be pumpkin painting, face painting, and a photobooth! There will also be a bunch of spook-tacular foods so definitely come to Trick or Treat yo' self!! (Also, sorry you can't skele-run from our skele-puns!) Where: TBD When: Tuesday, October 31st, 6PM-8PM TECNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING Come out to our technical committtee meeting to help plan tech workshops and gain resume-worthy technical experience through completing hardware and software-centered projects with WECE! Where: ECEB 3017 When: Thursday, November 2nd, 6PM-7PM EXTERNAL EVENTS THINKCHICAGO ROADSHOW The ThinkChicago Roadshow is coming to campus! At this event, you will have the opportunity to meet with 30 tech companies from Chicago that are looking to speak with our students about the Innovation Ecosystem in the city. There will also be student demos and a panel discussion. This will all be taking place October 24th, from 3-7pm, in Grainger Auditorium in the ECE Building. Learn more about the ThinkChicago here. RSVP on Handshake and make sure you don't miss out on this awesome event! Where: ECEB 1002 When: Tuesday, October 24th, 3PM-7PM OCTOBER SOCIALFUSE Our October SocialFuse is coming up! If you weren't aware, SocialFuse is a pitching and networking event meant to bring together students with new venture ideas and those that have the skills to help make these ideas a reality. If you have a startup idea that you would like to pitch, apply here by October 19th. SocialFuse will be taking place October 26th from 6-8pm in the Ikenberry SDRP, 2025A Scott Multipurpose Room. Learn more about SocialFuse here. Where: ECEB 1002 When: Tuesday, October 24th, 3PM-7PM NCWIT $10,000 COLLEGIATE AWARD APPLICATIONS The National Center for Women in Information and Technology (NCWIT) $10,000 Collegiate Award applications are open until Oct. 30! The prize is for an individual woman undergraduate or graduate student in CS or related degree. Please note that all UIUC students automatically meet the criteria of being a member “of the NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Community” because the university is an institutional member. To learn more about and apply for the award, visit this link. If you have any questions, please contact Stephanie Wang. 9TH POWER AND ENERGY CONFERENCE AT ILLINOIS (PECI) The Power and Energy Systems group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign cordially invites you to attend and present at the 9th Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) which will be held in the I-Hotel at UIUC on February 22-23, 2018. Graduate student-organized and led, PECI fosters discourse broadly across the electric power and energy disciplines which include, but are not limited to: Power Electronics, Electric Power Systems, Energy Markets, Renewable Energy Technologies, Electric Machines and Drives, System Reliability and Control. Undergraduates who are involved in research are welcomed to present their work. Deadline for poster abstract submission is Nov 30, 2017. Registration for conference participation will be opened soon. More detailed information is available at http://peci.ece.illinois.edu or contact peci-publicity@illinois.edu. Where: I-Hotel When: February 22nd-23rd