<aside> 👋 We welcomed everyone to the event, handed out Founder Cards* and introduced our executive members (Edward, Quinn, and Jacob)

*If you filled out our member registration form before January 25, 2023, we owe you one! Message us in the Discord :)

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<aside> 🙏 We shared our club’s purpose, which is to (1) increase engagement, social activity, and growth of and within the CS department, and to do so through (2) student-run events, (3) workshops, and (4) working directly with the department.

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<aside> 🗓️ We introduced how events will work this semester, and announced our intention to host an end-of-year social.

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<aside> 👥 We introduced how club leadership works, and how you can get involved:

Leadership teams & how to join

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<aside> 🎤 We ran an open-mic on what you’d like to see happen in the club: events we run, what would make being a member more special, what skills you want to learn, etc.

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Here’s what you came up with:

• Pair code challenges
• Smaller unofficial events with food lol
• Movie nights
• Weekly coding challenges
  • Finding things to contribute to on GitHub; getting our résumés going
• Having several compsigh teams participate in the WIT/ACM hackathon
• Petition teachers for extra credit for coming to our events lol
• Collab with interdisciplinary clubs e.g. engineering, design, robotics, etc.
• Group LeetCode sessions
• TA/tutoring workshops