On the 8th of August in celebration of National Women’s Day in South Africa, we hosted a virtual Girl Talk emceed by Kaluba Chikonde! The event was opened with a video consisting of our executive members describing “what it means to be woman”, watch it below: The Girl Talk panelists: We had a panel of 4 …
This year (2020), WICS has undergone many changes, and one of those changes has been the revamping of our website which hadn’t been updated since the year WICS became recognized as an official UCT society back in 2016 by our very first committee. It was important for 2020’s executive committee to continue the vision of …
On the 23rd of April 2020, we were thrilled to host an Intro to Coding workshop series sponsored by SOLIDitech which included really fun, interactive and productive weekly projects! Over the course of three weeks, our members learnt the fundamentals of building a basic website using HTML and CSS with an opportunity to test their …
On the 22nd of April 2020, we hosted a Music as Medicine Tech Talk which allowed our members to find out more about the role of Artificial Intelligence in music. We have seen how artificial intelligence (AI) has infiltrated through many industries through the creation of automated services, the discovery of patterns as well as …
Ever considered a career in research? Have burning questions like ‘What exactly it is that you do as a researcher?’, ‘Where should I do postgrad studies?’, ‘How do I get funding for postgrad studies?’, ‘How do I excel as a researcher?’ We at Women In Computer Science Society had the same thoughts which is why …
