AWE Newsletter: Week of 2/9
We look forward to seeing you at events this week! A couple of reminders:
1. Join the #donut_be_lonely channel on Slack.
Want to meet more AWE members? Every week, the #donut_be_lonely channel matches you with a new person to have a one-on-one with. It's a great way to make a new friend.
2. Sign up for AWE membership again for the semester.
Please fill out this form again, even if you have already in the past! |
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Upcoming Events
2/10 | Amazon Meet & Greet
2/10 | Amazon Ace Your Interview Workshop
2/11 | WiCSE Drop-in Office Hours
2/13 | Android Workshop with MDB
2/14 | Breaktime with Salesforce
2/14 | Palentine's Day
AWEfficer Hours
Come to our office (Cory 286) to meet / learn from / chill with AWEfficers. We're looking forward to talking with you!
2/13 2:30-3:30 | Anna & Enya
2/13 3:00-4:00 | Catherine & Catherine
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Opportunities
ON CAMPUS: Fung Fellowship (health x tech program)
INDUSTRY: Google Hash Code 2020 (annual coding competition), BlackRock's Find Your Future Forum (learn about internship recruiting & BlackRock), Pinterest Engage Scholars Program (fresh/sophomore summer program), Palo Alto Networks HQ (day-trip for 50 students!), D.E. Shaw Research: Science & Engineering Summit (learn about research in NYC)
INTERNSHIP OPENINGS: Full stack engineer at Prelude (all-female technical team), Backend engineer at besora (use AI to create solutions to climate change), full stack engineer at Aila Health (use ML to identify autoimmune diseases)
OTHER: Rewriting the Code (national community of female college students in CS), Terminal Live (Cal vs Stanford coding challenge with cash prizes)
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Monday, February 10 @ 5:30-6:30pm |
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Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall |
Join us for a meet & greet with fruit, cookies, and tea to talk to some Amazon engineers! We will have a Cloud Support Engineer and Software Development Engineer on-hand to answer your questions.
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Amazon Ace Your Interview Workshop
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Monday, February 10 @ 7:00-8:30pm |
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Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall |
Join Amazon Student Programs in a workshop designed to help you ace your interview! We’ll cover our recruitment process, provide resume tips and tricks and have a Cloud Support Engineer and Software Development Engineer on-hand answer your technical questions as well. Food will be provided on a first come, first served basis.
Scheduled to Attend:
Kevin Tseng, UC Berkeley Alum, Senior Software Development Engineer
Manju Gautam, Cloud Support Engineer
Tony Liu, Student Programs Recruiter
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WiCSE Drop-in Office Hours
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Tuesday, February 11 @ 1:00-5:00pm |
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Soda 511 |
Come chat with WiCSE students about anything that's on your mind. Ask about the grad school process, industry advice, tips for success, or even the best restaurants in Berkeley. If you have specific requests (mock coding interview, resume critique, etc), please reach out to us by emailing us at aweberkeley@gmail.com so that we can prepare necessary materials. See you there!
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Android Workshop with MDB
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Thursday, February 13 @ 6:00-8:00pm |
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Soda 405 |
Come join AWE to learn from Mobile Development at Berkeley (MDB) how to develop your first mobile Android app! No prior experience needed and dinner will be provided!!
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Breaktime with Salesforce
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Friday, February 14 @ 12:30-1:30pm |
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Cory 400 |
Join us for a Salesforce panel featuring female Cal alums over lunch! Learn more about the Futureforce intern program, what it's like to work at Salesforce (both as an intern and full-time), and thoughts on various Berkeley CS classes. Please sign up for the event at: http://tinyurl.com/rloymsj.
Scheduled to attend:
Maggie Donaldson is a first year AMTS (Entry-Level Software Engineer) at Salesforce. Before starting full-time she interned both at Salesforce and a healthcare tech startup named Sensely. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2019 (Go Bears!) and has been leading a Salesforce mentorship program for Berkeley women in CS61A since her senior year.
My name is Davis and I'm a recent UC Berkeley graduate/computer science major and have been working at Salesforce for a little over 6 months. I was a converted Futureforce intern! I work on the Org Migration Scale team (the team I worked with last summer) as a new grad software engineer. Every day, I use the skills I learned in Berkeley CS classes such as CS 186 (databases), CS 162 (OS), and DS 100.
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Friday, February 14 @ 6:00-8:00pm |
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Cory 540AB |
HKN, TBP, UPE, SWE, and AWE are cohosting Palentine's Day in celebration of Valentine's Day. Come socialize, meet new people, and play board games. There'll be pizza and cotton candy!
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Fung Fellowship
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What is the Fung Fellowship?
The Fung Fellowship is a unique opportunity for rising juniors to create innovative health and wellness solutions to address real-world challenges alongside our community and industry partners. Fung Fellows utilize the iterative human-centered design process, public health principles, and emerging technology.
Selected Fung Fellows attend a 3-unit course each semester, are supported in a summer internship, and have the opportunity to apply to a second year honors program.
Required Qualifications: Registered student at UC Berkeley, Rising Junior (current Sophomore standing) with a passion for health, wellness, social impact, design, and/or technology
How to Apply:
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Learn more about the program at: fungfellows.berkeley.edu.
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Please apply by completing the application here: https://tinyurl.com/ffapp20
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Deadline to apply: February 21st, 2020 11:59pm PST.
Questions? Please reach out to fungfellowship@berkeley.edu.
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Google Hash Code 2020
Get a glimpse into software engineering at Google during Hash Code, a team programming competition that tasks developers with solving a Google engineering problem. In past years, teams have tackled challenges like optimizing video streaming on YouTube and scheduling rides for self-driving cars.
Hash Code 2020 will take place over 2 rounds:
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BlackRock's Find Your Future Forum
Want to learn how to sell yourself on your resume? Not sure how to prepare for an interview? BlackRock is hosting an educational 1-day program for college sophomores that will introduce students to BlackRock’s mission, principles, and opportunities. Join us at this event to learn more about BlackRock and our recruitment process!
Where: San Francisco BlackRock office
When: April 17
Application Deadline: Monday, March 2nd @ 8:00am EST
Eligibility Requirements:
We are seeking talented sophomores with strong academic credentials across any major or discipline. Applicants should self-identify as female, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Native American, LGBTQ+ and/or disabled, and have an expected graduation date between September 2021 and June 2022. Prior internship experience is not necessary, to be considered.
CLICK HERE to learn more and apply!
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Pinterest Engage Scholars Program
Freshman and sophomore members are welcome to apply for Pinterest's Engage Scholars Program, a four-week technical workshop series hosted at the Pinterest office in July.
The Pinterest Engage Scholars Program includes:
- Engineering Mentorship (Small Groups)
- Technical Interview Prep (Mock Interviews and Coding Practice)
- Interpersonal Skill Building (Recruiting Deep Dives)
What we're looking for:
- Freshman and Sophomore students enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program with a demonstrated interest in majoring in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, or a related technical major
- Excitement and curiosity for computer science, technology, and passion for Pinterest
- Availability to regularly attend evening program series in San Francisco, CA
Please apply here!
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Visit Palo Alto Networks HQ!
Palo Alto Networks is inviting 50 students from Berkeley to come learn from engineers and take part in an all-day hands-on event hosted at Palo Alto Networks headquarters.
Palo Alto Networks is the fastest-growing security company in history and a six-time Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for our innovation and ability to execute. Named best place to work by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, we offer the chance to be part of an important mission: ending breaches and protecting our way of digital life.
RSVP (https://forms.gle/v1vE4AoYasM8PGb99) to secure your spot on the bus. Please note that acceptances will be sent out via email if you are chosen to attend the event.
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D.E. Shaw Research: Science & Engineering Summit for Undergraduates
D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES) seeks exceptional undergraduates pursuing degrees in the computational sciences to join us at our Science and Engineering Summit for Undergraduates. This event will take place on Friday, April 3, 2020, and will bring students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering to our offices in New York City for a day of presentations, discussions, networking, and plenty of refreshments! This is an opportunity to learn about the internship and career opportunities available at DESRES, explore our scientific computing and research projects in detail, and connect with other students from across the country who share your interest in science and technology.
Enjoy the vantage point from our Times Square office and an evening in New York City on us! We will cover the cost of travel to and from New York as well as hotel accommodations for two nights for all selected attendees.
If you are studying computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, applied math, materials science, or another scientific field with a focus on computational methods, and are interested in attending this event, please email your resume and a short statement of interest (approx. 200 words) to DESRESSummit@DEShawResearch.com with the subject line “2020 Summit Application” by Tuesday, February 18, 2020. We can only invite a limited number of attendees to the summit, but we welcome submissions from students of all experience levels.
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Full-stack Engineer Intern at Prelude
Prelude is a process management system - combining budgeting, task management, and collaboration with a powerful workflow engine. Prelude automates the routine, so planners can focus on what they do best: craft unique experiences.
We have built an all-female technical team and are looking for an ambitious engineering intern to join us during a very exciting chapter of growth and product development. As an early engineer you will play a crucial role in the development of the product. Prelude is currently built on a no-code platform (Bubble) and you will have an opportunity to take the prototype and refactor it in code.
What we are looking for:
- Full-stack engineer, ideally with experience working with modern web technologies (React / VueJS, etc.)
- Experience building database-driven web applications
- Intrinsically motivated and tenacious
- Self-starter who LOVES to solve problems with automation and technology
- Industry experience is a plus but not required so long as you are eager to grow
To Apply:
Please email Adriana (CEO and founder) at adriana@tryprelude.com and we can schedule a call or time to meet in person. Can’t wait to chat! To learn more about Prelude and this opportunity, visit this link.
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Backend Software Engineer Intern at besora
besora is looking for a Backend Software Engineer Intern that has some experience with computer science or has taken relevant courses at EECS (CS8, CS9G, 9H, CS61B, etc) or other similar programs. If you are interested in getting hands-on experience building AI to help combat climate change, join us! If interested, please send your resume or an email of interest to amaanihamid@berkeley.edu.
More details:
- Spring 2020 semester; 4-6 hours/week (if you can do more, great!)
- Design and create API services and system architecture for the product
- Proficient in Java/Python
- Familiarity of web server technologies such as NGINX, Apache
- Interest in sustainability, climate change, data analysis, machine learning models, AI
- Experience in building machine learning models (nice to have but not required)
About besora:
besora is a knowledge platform that helps solve the information gap within the climate space by aggregating solutions as they emerge. besora operates on three key principles: aggregate, validate, and communicate. By aggregating publically available climate 'solutions,' validating them through a team of experts, and communicating them to relevant users, we hope to improve the information architecture of climate change information and data, globally.
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Full-stack Developer Intern at Aila Health
We are an early stage precision medicine start-up seeking to fundamentally change the way autoimmune diseases are diagnosed and managed.
There are currently 25 million Americans living with an autoimmune disease, but don't know it yet. That's because there is no easy way to diagnose these illnesses and patients keep suffering unnecessarily. What's more is that many treatments don't work for patients even when they are diagnosed. We are looking to leverage each individual patient's personal data and lifestyle information to help them manage their condition properly and identify potential autoimmune conditions they might have based on our proprietary machine learning algorithm.
If you are interested in changing the healthcare system and having an impact on millions of patient lives and their families, please reach out - email rory@ailahealth.com.
Our ideal first full stack developer to build our native app would have an eye for customer centricity and have the following technical profile:
- Major: Computer Science or Information Systems
- Expertise: JavaScript [Angular and React Native]; CSS and HTML5
- Platforms: iOS, Android, and Windows Backend development (preferred): SWIFT, MongoDB or similar
- Unit testing (nice to have): Mocha/Jasmine
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Rewriting the Code
Rewriting the Code is a national non profit dedicated to empowering college women in tech. We believe that through participation in a supportive, all-female tech community, college women will feel inspired and supported to rise together to become the next generation of exceptional engineers and tech leaders.
RTC membership offers:
- Access to a private discussion forum through RTC’s Facebook Group of 4,000+ 1st-4th year women in tech from 425+ schools across the US & Canada
- Webinars with tech leaders and RTC company partners
- 2020 Internship and Full-Time opportunities that are available now
- Access to insights from our research efforts
- And, there is NO COST to students
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Terminal Live
Hosted by Correlation One and sponsored by Citadel LLC and Citadel Securities, Terminal Live: Cal vs Stanford is coming to San Francisco on Saturday, February 22nd!
Terminal is an online platform where players compete by coding AI strategies (i.e., algorithms) that automate play of the game. Teams face off against one another by implementing their best algorithm, and top players have opportunities to win cash prizes, exclusive job opportunities from industry leaders, and global recognition.
Who: Any currently enrolled Cal and Stanford students
When: Saturday, February 22nd (10am-6pm)
Where: San Francisco Marriott Union Square
Prizes: $25,000 + Exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel
Application Deadline: 11:59 PM February 16th
Questions: Please email victor@correlation-one.com
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