CSters

Hey Ladies!
This weekend is startup weekend! A 52 hour code-a-palooza where you get to go code and help start some local businesses. For $49 you get access to the event and: "seven meals, snack,.. a book from O’Reilly Media and all the coffee you can drink." E-mail Dennis at orangemoney52@gmail.com if you're interested, and also check out the website for more info. I hope to see you there!

Hey Ladies! If you attended the Grace Hopper Conference this past week and took notes on any of the talks, please post them on the Grace Hopper Wiki! You will not only be helping fellow CSters, but computer science women all over the country and the world.
If you didn't get a chance to attend the conference missed a talk, you can still have the opportunity to learn about new technology, women's issues, or even important study skills such as time management by checking out the wiki!
There were a lot of very interesting talks and many were quite inspirational. Including the talk by Sheryl Sandberg. You can see her ted talk here.

Worried about what classes to take next semester?
Have an abundance of advice you want to share with your fellow CSters?
Come to a study break this Thursday, where we'll be talking about schedules and classes.
Underclassmen come ask upperclassmen about the classes you're thinking about taking!
Upperclassmen come tell underclassmen about all the awesome CS classes you've taken!
Everyone come eat pie!
This study break will be happening in the Baker commons from 9pm - 10pm this Thursday. There will be many flavors of delicious pie and lots of CSters fun!

After a long struggle to figure out the permissions for the website, I have finally gotten things up and running! You can now look forward to timely updates and also a wonderful new officers' page. Hopefully we'll also get a "meet the members" page soon!

Also get ready for the Grace Hopper Conference/Celebration/Computa-palooza 2011 which is coming up in 2 weeks!

CSters is holding elections for the upcoming school year this Thursday(April 14, 2011) at McMurtry College PDR during lunch! For all who are interested, please contact our Graduate Student Mentor, Natalie Yudin (natalieyudin@rice.edu) by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, April 13th. Be sure to include your name, your current class, and the position in which you would like to run for. We are looking for individuals who are enthusiastic about the club and possess cool ideas about our club's future! Please come prepared to say a few words about why you are interested in holding your desired position during Thursday's lunch.

We hope to see everyone at the election this Thursday, regardless of whether you are running for a position or not. We will be providing awesomely delicious food as always AND there will be FREE CSters t-shirts to give out!

It's the start of a new semester! CSters will be having our first lunch meeting of this semester on Thursday January 20 at Duncan Hall room 2014. We will be brainstorming and discussing possible fun activities for this semester! As always, lunch will be provided.

Once again, we are trying to design a t-shirt for our club. If you have made any kind of sketches for the t-shirt design, bring them to the lunch meeting this Thursday. Don't be shy! The sooner we nail down on a design, the faster we can get our hands on the lovely t-shirts. If not this Thursday, the following Thursday. You are always welcome to email your designs to any of the officers. Our contact information can be located at the "Officers" tab.

Now for some scholarship announcements. The Anita Borg Scholarship deadline is approaching! We are encouraging all undergraduate seniors and graduate students to apply! Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity. For more information regarding this and other scholarship opportunities go to the "links" tab.

Finally, we will be welcoming a speaker from Google to our lunch talks on Thursday January 27! Details will be determined. As always, for all upcoming events, please refer to the "calendar" section.

Members of CSters club recently attended the 2010 Grace Hopper Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The experience was truly inspiring. The girls met numerous amazingly talented, enthusiastic, and strong women in technology such as Fran Allen and Barbara Liskov who are two of the Turing Award winners (nobel prize for computer science). Besides attending cool technical workshops, Grace Hopper Conference also offered numerous career development, undergraduate, and graduate oriented workshops for students. On top of that, a career fair also took place. Many top companies in the technical industry were present and seeking computer science students! The most fun part for me is probably meeting all the interesting ladies from all different kinds of backgrounds. The 2000 plus attendees for this conference came from 29 different countries! This Thursday (October 14, 2010), the girls who attended the conference are all eagered to share the wonderful experiences they had with everyone. So please join us at Duncan Hall 3076 for a casual lunch. Food will be provided. What's more, we have free t-shirts to give away as well as other goodies from the conference! As always, we welcome new faces. See everyone Thursday!

CSters's first official club meeting was a success! Many old members had returned, but we want to see more freshmen! Come out girls!

Few announcements:

1. Study Break will be held today (Thursday September 9) on 10:00pm at McMurtry College! Join us for fun conversations and yummy homemade cookies.

2. Our first guest speaker of the semester is Lindsay Nicholson from Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. Lindsay will be joining us on September 16th at Duncan Hall room 3076. Food will be provided. Hope to see many of you there!

3. Calling all artists! CSters is holding a t-shirt design contest. Winner will receive an awesome free shirt. Submit your design ideas as soon as you can to Carrie Boland (ceb5@rice.edu).

I hope to see a lot of new faces tonight!

The CSter officers had our first meeting of the year. We covered a lot of grounds. We discussed the upcoming Grace Hopper Conference 2010 at Atlanta, Georgia, hosting bi-weekly lunches in Duncan Hall, the big sister little sister program, and other general fun events throughout the year.

For all the returning CSters, if any of you are interested in attending the Grace Hopper Conference, PLEASE contact Carrie Boland(ceb5@rice.edu) as soon as possible. Since there are only two to four spots open, a selection process will be taking place. Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity! For more information regarding the Grace Hopper Conference, visit http://gracehopper.org/2010/.

Our first returning CSters member meeting has tentatively been scheduled on Tuesday, August 24. Be sure to check out the "calendar" tab of this site for all the latest event updates. We are off to a great start girls! Have a good rest of the summer CSters.