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 …
The theme of the hackathon was ‘Using technology to solve community problems’. We had trainers from Google Developer Group Cape Town to assist with implementation, judges from Amazon Development Center and prizes from Facebook. The judging criteria was: Novelty Creativity Functionality Visual design Implementation effort. With each team consisting of at least one female member, …
Yesterday (27th April) was Freedom day in South Africa.Having no lectures for the day, our members productively spent it practicing for coding interviews. Facebook, one of the most selective tech companies fully sponsored this event. We had 2 Facebook engineers and one recruiter demystify the whole recruitment process at Facebook, followed by a mock interview, …
In the spirit of encouraging women to tech. We hosted a full day workshop in partnership with Rails Bridge Cape Town. There were about 20 attendees who produced their first Rails web application. Many students said that they wanted to either kick-start or improve their existing programming knowledge and that they wanted to use what …
On the afternoon of Wednesday 24th February, we had our opening event. It was a jam packed event with about 70 attendees. We celebrated the late Anita Borg’s birthday . Anita Borg is the pioneer of the global Women In Technology movement. We also had googlers , Irina Dumitrescu and Nicole Williams share the career …
