NOVEMBER 6 - NOVEMBER 13 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. EVENTS OUTREACH COMMITTEE MEETING Come to the WECE Outreach Committee meeting to help finalize the details for our upcoming WECE Outreach event! We are working with a few high schools in the area to have students come over to the ECEB and learn about what being in tech is like. Where: ECEB 1015 When: Monday, November 6th, 5PM-6PM TASTY THURSDAY Come hang out with WECE in an informal setting. Do your homework, paint your nails, build a robot… the possibilities are endless. Snacks will be provided! Where: ECEB RSO Office (1016) When: Thursday, November 9th, 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 9th, 6PM-7PM EXTERNAL EVENTS PANDORA OPEN HOUSE The University Team at Pandora will be in Chicago on November 7th and we would love to invite you to our open house! We are enthusiastic about students who would: Be excited about the prospect of working with us on compelling projects for 10 weeks during the summer Loves music and the thought of working for a music and tech company Interested in working in the fantastic, culturally rich city of Oakland, CA If you are interested, please RSVP here. The event details are available in the invite. THIEL FELLOWSHIP The Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who are building new things. The program offers $100,000 in an equity free grant, and allows the Thiel fellows the freedom to work on their company full time outside of school. To be eligible, one must be 22 or younger and without a college degree. For more information, please contact program manager Katy Strupp. OPTIVER FULL-TIME AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Optiver is a derivatives trading firm in Chicago and we are currently looking for students in EE and CE who may be interested in an FPGA role. Both entry level and internship positions are available for this role. At Optiver, you will have the opportunity to: Plan and deliver new high speed FPGA designs Accelerate network infrastructure Identify new low-latency techniques for trading systems If you’re interested, take the leap today and APPLY! 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