* Next meeting 5/14
* Formalizing as a graduate student group
* Affiliation with ACM-W
* Frequency of Fall semester's meeting and potential guest speakers
* Coupling guests with Colloquium
* Mentoring incoming CS students
* Workshop series
* WiCS Facebook group
Hi All!
Next Wednesday (5/14) will be our last meeting of our first year.
We'll resume again in September.
I'd like to take care of some admin stuff at our next meeting. We'll
be formalizing as a graduate group. This will allow us to have a
university club account, which we'll see with our profits from the
Botball'08 snack stand profits.
To formalize as a group, we'll need a constitution (statement of
purpose) and a board (president, vice president, secretary, treasurer,
senator, and alternative senator). Grad WiCS, please volunteer
yourselves for these positions; email directly to wics at cs.uml.edu. If
there are multiple nominations for a position, I'll make ballots for
5/14's meeting. I will continue as coordinator next year while we
settle into an officially formed group. Also, I believe we need at
least 10 graduate student members. Lastly, we need a faculty advisor.
Faculty WiCS, please volunteer yourselves to keep up going!
After we've become official, we'll become an ACM-W affiliated group.
For next September, I'd like to get some ideas as to how frequently we
should meet. I've created an anonymous survey at Survey Monkey. Based
on your responses, I'll be able to determine how frequently we should
meet and who to invite as guest speakers.
Fred Martin will be the new colloquium chair. I will be working with
him to invite guest speakers. I'd like to keep the WiCS meetings on
Wednesdays 1:30-2:20pm. This will allow us to first speak informally
with colloquium guests interested in speaking with us, and also allow
WiCS guests to give a technical presentation following our meetings.
Jesse and I will also be launching a mentoring program of upperclass
students to new students. The relationships will be largely informal.
For example, having lunch with a mentee to answer any questions he/she
may have. We'd like to have this effort be WiCS powered.
Also, I'd like to create workshop sessions throughout the year next
year. At the beginning of September, I'll be hosting a "TA Bootcamp."
We'd briefly talked about hosting "How to Network" and "Confidence
Crisis" workshops as well.
Lastly, Betty has created a Facebook group for us, in addition to our
webpage. See below.
Please come to 5/14's meeting to help us set the pace for next fall.
We have A LOT to talk about. RSVP directly with wics at cs.uml.edu and a
bagel lunch will be provided.
Thanks,
Kate
Beibei invited you to join the Facebook group "UML WiCS (Women In
Computer Science)".
Beibei says, "Hello girls, I've created a facebook group for our WiCS.
Please feel free to invite other people to join us. :)".
To see more details and confirm this group invitation, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?
