Computer Science Club

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For all you geeks and nerds at UC Davis, here is a club for you. According to the website:
"We are a social, educational, and career-oriented club catering to CS/CSE/CE majors/minors, though anyone who is interested in our activities is welcome to join us.

Social events: LAN parties, board game nights
Educational: professor talks, next quarter classes (in which we discuss classes for next quarter so students can plan their schedules according to what they want to learn and workload)
Career-oriented: various companies visit us to tell us about their company and what jobs they have to offer, and take our resumes

We have General Meetings approx. monthly, but most weeks we have at least one event. Some weeks we even end up having 5 events because so many companies want to visit us! :)"

PROTIPS:

• The Website has Announcements, a Calendar, and some Resources in case you want to study up, are looking to expand your skillset, or are looking for a project to work on.
  

• The club maintains a list of students who are currently providing tutoring for ECS classes.
  

• There is a mailing list for the club. See this on how to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to it.
  

• Free food (usually pizza) is provided at most meetings. It will generally say on the event page if there is food.

For the 2011-2012 school year, many new activities are planned, including a Freshman/Transfer/New School Year Welcome Party, Dead Day study breaks, (possibly) a Halloween party, movie events, bbqs/picnics, and more! Efforts will be made to encourage the younger students to be active in the club, get even more companies (especially gaming companies and start-ups, which are currently underrepresented), get even more interesting professor talks, and make the year an amazing, fun year.
CS Club is friends with IEEE, SWE (Society of Women Engineers), and StarCraft Club, so efforts will be made so that CS Club's events do not conflict with those clubs' events.

Some companies that have visited in the past include: Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Accenture, Google, Klicknation, Salesforce.com, TiVo, Workday, Lockheed Martin, FLUID, CBS Interactive, Agilent Technologies.
CS Club built the Computer Science and Engineering section of the Engineering department's picnic day float many years ago. It consisted of a paperclip and a penguin inside a small boxing ring, a wacky joke regarding the Microsoft/Linux rivalry. The club's picnic day efforts also used to included a "Street Smarts" game show (whatever that was), but nowadays cool projects are shown off. In Picnic day 2011 for example, the popular iPhone app UCD Mobile was shown off.
The history of CS Club includes countless self-destructions, such that a super pessimistic sort such as ChrisTakemura may be accurate in saying that "CS students aren't really the sort of people to have clubs." The President for 2011-2012 disagrees and thinks it's probably due to a lack of students with a strong, firey passion for the club, and that as long as the torch is passed to competent people, the club can stay alive.

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I agree with ct here, but would hate to get a ChrisMcKenzie vs. Computer Science Club going, because that sounds like an awful waste of my time. And shame on you for putting cts comment under editorial review. —ChristopherMcKenzie

2006-05-01 19:18:31   Would I be correct in saying that current students may need to get over the past? CS Clubs can be quite beneficial, and I am aware with the difficulty in managing one. —JustinCummins

2007-07-28 17:53:21   so there isn't an ACM club on campus? —atwong

2008-03-21 15:42:44   I'm not affiliated with UC Davis, but interested to meet students who's interested or part of ACM ICPC. —Lego

2008-04-13 11:24:05   Contact Professor Filkov if you're interested in the ACM programming contest. I'm planning on joining next year and am planning on announcing it at the CS Club —SebastianNg

2008-08-28 09:45:07   Sebastian, thanks ... I think it's great to practice together on ACM ICPC contests. If there's a get together to discuss problems, please kindly let me know. —Lego

2008-10-18 15:59:20   Sorry... haven't checked this entry in a while, but Professor Filkov is currently reviewing with people on Friday from 3-4:30 at Kemper 1131. The contest will be in mid-November. —SebastianNg