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Have an impact on our community by voting for your CSSS executives for the next year!

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Interested in being part of the CSSS Executive Team next year? Nominations are now open! You can pick up your nomination form at the Cube (ICICS 021).

To see what each executive position entails, please visit Section 8 of our constitution: https://ubccsss.org/about/constitution

Nominations will close on MARCH 13 @ 5PM. Hand in your form to an Executive or Officer at the Cube. Nominees for the President and VP-Finance position must be able to attend a AMS orientation session on either March 21 or March 29 should they be elected

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Are you looking for something to do on Valentine’s day? Wanting to make friends in your major? How about someone to grab poké with or run to class together? Come and join us at the CSSS Speed Friending (like speed dating, minus the awkward pick-up lines!). The event will take place at 6pm on Feb 14th at ICICS 246! Come with friends or by yourself, and we guarantee that you will not walk out alone!

WHAT

CS Coffee Chat is a program that randomly pairs a junior (1st or 2nd year) student with a senior (3rd+ year) student for a quick meet-up on a monthly basis. This is a low-commitment and informal opportunity for junior students to ask questions about Computer Science majors, classes, extracurriculars, or internships and senior students to share their experiences! If more junior than senior students sign up, we’ll make sure everyone is still in placed a match in a group of three - either in a group of three or with another junior student.

Make new friends and get to know other people walking around ICICS :)

We had a great turnout for both months, with 40 people in October and 84 in November. Since December is finals season, we look forward to picking this up again next January.

Every month, we open the form on first day and close on the last day. Matchings are then sent out to your email during the first week of next month. If you have any questions, reach out to ubc.cs.coffee.chat@gmail.com.

Sign-up for the February 2020 round is now open, and you can find the sign-up form here.

More info

We are looking to interview current 3rd and 4th year students in any UBC CS undergraduate degree program (e.g. BSc in CS, Combined Majors, BUCS, Cognitive Systems - Computational Intelligence and Design, etc) about your experiences in your CS program.

The interviews will last about an hour, and will be scheduled at a time that is convenient for participants. We are able to compensate participants $20 cash for their time.

If you have any questions, please contact Alice Campbell, Science Education Specialist, Department of Computer Science, UBC. alicecam@cs.ubc.ca