OCTOBER 30 - NOVEMBER 6 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! EVENTS 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: ECEB 3002 When: Tuesday, October 31st, 6PM-8PM 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, November 2nd, 3PM-5PM 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 HALITE PROGRAMMING COMPETITION Come test your coding skills in Halite! Halite is an open source artificial intelligence programming challenge, created by Two Sigma, where players build bots using the coding language of their choice to battle on a two-dimensional virtual board. Register with your Github account to begin playing! Two Sigma has also created a virtual hackathon specifically for UIUC students running until November 15 that can be accessed with this access code: 6791620b231d42ee8aab67243c562856 VERILY SUMMER INTERNSHIP Verily will be accepting applications for summer internships from October 30th until February 28th. Apply directly at verily.com/careers. If you have any other questions, please email verily-students@google.com. 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