UIC WIEP - Women in Engineering Programs

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The talented students from brought their rovers to life during the last day of the Women in Engineering Summer Program 2.0 for community college students. The Beetle Bugs, Team Ghost, Racing Reapers, and El Pollo Loco all had their run through a maze using object-avoiding rovers they built and programmed with an Arduino Uno microcontroller. These students did an incredible job throughout the program, and we envision bright futures for each of them. We can’t wait to see where they go next!

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The talented students from brought their rovers to life during the last day of the Women in Engineering Summer Program 2.0 for community college students. The Beetle Bugs, Team Ghost, Racing Reapers, and El Pollo Loco all had their run through a maze using object-avoiding rovers they built and programmed with an Arduino Uno microcontroller. These students did an incredible job throughout the program, and we envision bright futures for each of them. We can’t wait to see where they go next!

This was the first ever crossover event where our WIESP high school and WIESP community college students intertwined for an incredible workshop led by an even more incredible professor, Dr. Gonzalo Bello!🚀💫 Thanks to UIC Professor, Dr. Bello, our students we’re introduced to data science and how it helps us understand complex issues by analyzing and organizing large amounts of data. Students also had a wonderful opportunity to hear from our College of Engineering recruiter, Oscar Herrera, and Melissa Hernandez from BreakThrough Tech Chicago! We are so grateful for the opportunity to introduce our students to some truly incredible humans in our college! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

It was a perfect day for Lego building and the students from more then delivered!
An awesome group of Chicago high school students were introduced to the College of Engineering, asked questions to our student panel, AND they built their very own Lego bulb with an LED circuit!!!! Thank you so much to for inviting us, it was a wonderful meeting your incredible students!!!

Our INCREDIBLE students celebrated the official end of !!! We can’t explain how proud and amazed we are of all that they have accomplished and we can’t wait to see what they do next! Congratulations WIESP2024!!!❤️

Week 2 started off with a trip to the Google offices in Chicago! Thank you so much to the Googlers for welcoming our students to your space! Students had the amazing opportunity to create their own AI model and train it themselves!🤖 We were then taken on a tour of the Google offices and learned from a panel of trailblazing software engineers. We enjoyed some delicious snacks and pizza to end our trip. Google, you have officially inspired an entire group of future engineers and STEMinists! THANK YOU for this incredible experience🫶

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This is how WLRC and CAN viewed the 2024 Solar Eclipse 😎 (smiling emoji with sunglasses on)

Thanks to , , , and our PERSIST(E) participants for sharing this amazing experience with us!

Hope you join us!

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STEM students, join the Women's Leadership and Resource Center, CAN, Persist(E), and UIC WIEP on Monday, April 8, for "We Are All Advocates: Preventing Harm & Supporting Survivors" and learn how to advocate for yourself and for others in your community, work, and classes.

Survivors and allies are welcome - no prior experience or knowledge required. Lunch will be provided!

Date: Monday, April 8
Time: 1-3 PM
Where: WLRC (Suite 1700 SSB)
RSVP: go.uic.edu/persiste48

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IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!!!📢🙌 WIESP 2.0 2024 for community college students is returning!! We are BEYOND thrilled to have students spend their summer with us and learn more about the incredible world of Electrical and Computer Engineering! Apply Now at: go.uic.edu/WIESP2024_2.

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and recently celebrated International Women’s Day 2024 with and the Women of Color in Engineering Collaborative to acknowledge the resilience, achievements, and contributions of women and non-binary engineers worldwide! The event also highlighted ongoing efforts for gender equity and empowerment. Attendees connected with student organizations and UIC units led by women and participated in a painting activity to pay tribute to women pioneers in STEM. As Jennifer Dalzell, our guest speaker, reiterated, International Women’s Day is a reminder to be inclusive in our policies and practices to ensure women and non-binary people have equitable computer science and engineering opportunities.

IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN!!!📣‼️ WIESP 2024 is returning and will be introducing Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering! We are BEYOND thrilled to have students spend their summer with us! Apply Now: go.uic.edu/WIESP2024.

The best of days include a bullet journal and some of the most amazing people🥹📔 Thank you SO much to everyone that joined us and started building their personalized bullet journal (bujo)! We hope you enjoyed and we heard you: we will definitely be doing this again😉 This was our very first Dialogue Days event and it is the first of many more to come! Each Dialogue Day will have a different theme, and this one was focused on finding a way to organize our thoughts on paper and reclaim our minds💪

Chesta Dewangan, one of our INCREDIBLE WIEP student leaders, was featured on !!! Go Chesta!💫
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Congratulations to our Fall 2023 t-shirt design contest winner Umaimah Siddiqui!

Umaimah, an undergraduate student in the biomedical engineering department, submitted the blue shirt design that features the UIC logo embedded within a series of gears and cogs splashed across the top of the shirt. This winning design is modeled here by CS undergraduate student Chesta Dewangan.

Thank you to all the students who submitted their designs and ideas earlier this year! Please check with your department offices to get one of the new shirts before they are gone!

Today marks our last day of Girls Who Code…
…but only for the semester!
GWC will return on January 20th of 2024 and we can’t wait!🥳 THANK YOU so much to Chenille Lawrence, Annie You, and Kelly Wadlington for joining us today as our special guest speakers! You are each so inspiring⭐️ We are so thankful for all the incredible people we get to spend our Saturdays with💕. Miss you all already but we will see you again super soon😉
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Join us on Monday, Nov. 27th, for our end of semester Persiste celebration!🎉 This event will include creating your very own affirmation jar and taking home a self care Persiste package! RSVP with the QR code or go to the link here: go.uic.edu/persiste1127. Hope to see you there!

Thank you Diana for sharing your incredible and inspiring story with ! You’re paving the way for so many of us - thank you for your leadership and commitment to our community ⚙️❤️

Did you know one of the most haunted places in the United States is on our very own UIC campus?! It’s the Jane Addams Hull-House! Students from our Ghouls Who Code celebration learned how to create their very own autonomous nightlight circuit and about Chicago’s sp👀ky history! Thank you so much to all the students that joined us, and their families! Creep creating and being the hallow-winners we know you all are!👻⚡️

Join us on Monday, Oct. 30th, for a Halloween inspired end of semester Persiste social! This interactive event will have you feeling sp👀ked by how empowering you are and how even more inspiring you can become!👻

Today we made history. We were the proud host of , which brought almost 200 Latinx women engineers to our campus! Many were our very own students and alumni, and we could not have been more proud to be part of this incredible event. Gracias Latina Engineer | Diana Iracheta Foundation Nfp for choosing UIC 🔥🔥🔥And a huge congratulations to Fatima Mora Garcia who was awarded the GE Appliances Scholarship 2023 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

In honor of National STEM Day on November 11th, we are excited to host Elevate, a FREE high school outreach event brought to you by NSBE UIC and Equity and Inclusion in Engineering Program 👩🏽‍🔬🔬⚙️👩🏽‍🚀

Elevate is designed to expose high school students from underrepresented backgrounds to engineering and computer science, and gain a deeper understanding of the exciting majors offered . During the event, students will have a chance to:

* Participate in hands-on engineering activities and demonstrations
* Interact with UIC NSBE Chapter members and EIEP staff
* Learn about the various engineering majors available at UIC
* Discover the potential career opportunities in the field of engineering
* Connect with engineering faculty and current engineers in industry

and much more!

High school students must register by November 4th at go.uic.edu/elevate2023

Space is limited so please register TODAY!

Thank you to Dr. huu nguyen, for leading our incredible circle, and for sharing her own personal experiences in STEM. This was an amazing opportunity to voice our frustrations and worries, but also our excitement and motivations as we continue through our journey in engineering❤️

Join EIEP for their first EIEP Alumni Empower event on October 4, 2023:

Men of Color in Engineering Panel

All members of our UIC community encouraged to attend: go.uic.edu/EAE104

“Money, money, money” by ABBA is what our scholarship recipients can sing thanks to the wonderful contribution from the one and only Bill Unger! But in all seriousness, this scholarship is more than monetary support, it is a community. Today was the annual scholarship recipient dinner held at the beautiful lounge where students had the opportunity to share their experiences and connect with each other.

Huge THANK YOU to Bill Unger and Dean Nelson for joining us today and for all of their support in making our students’ dreams come true. And an especially huge thank you to Professor Diana Diaz, Anupriya Matthews, and Claire Chappee for being our special guests!❤️

We “Made It Happen”!!! Today was our first time back in person since 2019 for our annual Make It Happen event with the one and only, Knowles Corporation! With the incredible presentations and shared experiences from our guests, we learned so much about what it takes to Make It Happen in our education, careers, and life. All these amazing presenters were true ❤️! THANK YOU to everyone who joined us today and an especially HUGE thank you to our team!!!💃

PERSIST(Σ) presents:

Equitizing the Voices of Women of Color in Engineering with Dr. huu nguyen on Monday, October 2, 2023 from 1:30pm-3pm! All members of our UIC Engineering community are strongly encouraged to attend! Lunch will be included, but please RSVP! More information at go.uic.edu/persiste102

GIRLS WHO CODE is back and better than ever!!!!🎉🥳👏THANK YOU so much to all of our spectacular students and their parents for attending our Kickoff Celebration! It was so wonderful meeting all of you and seeing some familiar faces! Next Saturday will be our official first day of class and we can't wait to get started!💯

Today was the 2023 UIC Open House and what a festive and bubbly day it was! Thank you so much to all of our students and new friends and families for stopping by our table!! We hope to see you at UIC very soon and always remember, 💯🎓✨