Gender Representation in Computing Society Sussex

Join us tomorrow in Room 76 at 12 for the last coffee & convos of the term! See you there ☕️

Tickets for Thursdays LGBTQ+ Soc x GRiCS trivia night are on sale! Pop over to the Sussex Student website using the link in the comments or in our bio to grab one - first 20 sold get a free drink ticket! 🥳

Happy International Women’s Day everyone! Join us tomorrow at 6pm in Fulton 202 to celebrate 💛

Hi everyone! We’d just like to remind everyone that our Bystander Intervention Training is a ticketed event, as we have a limit of 20 people that can attend! We’re more than happy to put on another session if we have more people interested. If you’re planning on attending, please purchase a free ticket from the SU website following the link in our bio 💛

Also, the event will be in Fulton 214, instead of the FTL!

Join us, , , and on Wednesday the 9th of March to celebrate International Women’s Day! Follow the link in our bio to get (free) tickets for the event on Eventbrite 🥳

The National Student Survey is open for all final-year students to fill out! If you complete it, you’ll be given a £10 Amazon gift card and will be entered into a prize draw to win one of three £500 and £250 Amazon gift cards! To find out more information or to complete the survey, click on the link in our bio or go to https://www.thestudentsurvey.com

February is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, so we’d like to use this time to shine a light on influential LGBTQ+ computer scientists. Edith ‘Edie’ Windsor was a brilliant programmer and incredible gay rights activist, who fought for US law to recognise same-sex marriages the same as heterosexual marriages. Read through these slides to learn about Edie’s life and legacy 💛

It was lovely meeting everyone at the Women in STEM Day social on Friday and to be able to talk about GRiCS! To introduce ourselves to those who are new, we’re the Gender Representation in Computing Society. Our goal is to create a safe space for women and gender-diverse computing students at sussex to be able to support, empower & encourage one another 💛 If this sounds like something you’d be interested, come along to our Coffee & Convos morning on Tuesday (12pm, Room 76) for a chat!

Also, we would love everyone who’s interested to also become a member, which you can do by following the link in our bio and clicking on ‘Become a GRiCS member’. This will make attending and hearing about events even easier for you! There’s also a link to our discord server which has a information about reporting incidents of harassment at Sussex, and a channel for you to talk to other society members ☀️

It was great to see some of you last night at the Women in STEM Day social, and hopefully we’ll see you on Tuesday, for our first Coffee & Convos morning! Join us in Room 76 at 12 o’clock for cake, coffee and (casual) conversations ☕️

To celebrate International Women in STEM Day, we’d like to share some of the incredible accomplishments and contributions that have been made by women in Computing! Here’s some information about Katherine Johnson (one of the ‘Human Computers’ working at NASA to launch the first astronaut into space), Sister Mary Keller (who was the first woman awarded a PhD in Computer Science in the US), Radia Perlman (the inventor of the spanning-tree algorithm) and Jean Bartik (one of the first programmers of the ENIAC)!

To celebrate International Women in STEM Day, we’d like to share some of the incredible accomplishments and contributions that have been made by women in Computing! Here’s some information about Grace Hopper (known as the mother of COBOL), Elizabeth Feinler (the pioneer of ARPANET), Mary Allen Wilkes (who was the first user of a computer built by themself) and Ada Lovelace (known as the first computer programmer)!

To celebrate International Women in STEM Day, we’d like to share some of the incredible accomplishments and contributions that have been made by women in Computing! Here’s some information about Margaret Hamilton (who coined the term software engineering), Hedy Lamarr (a pioneer of wireless communications), Annie Easley (whose calculations powered the Centaur rocket) and Karen Spärck Jones (who conceptualised inverse document frequency)!