Copyright 2019 Reflux Design
Girls Who Code at UNC Charlotte
We are a student organization at UNC Charlotte and a College Loop of the national organization Girls Who Code. Our aim is to uplift and maintain a strong community of female students in computer science, as well as develop technical and professional skills.
Spring 2022 Schedule
This spring semester, we have a variety of events planned.
These include: Technical Workshops, Professional Networking Events, Socials, and more!
See more information on our event schedule with the button below.
Web Development Team
We started our very own Web Development Team! This is open to anyone at any experience level to come work with some awesome people and learn to design, build, and deploy a website. Our first project is to build a new website for our organization.
Our Goals
We work on our professional and technical skills, as well as our creativity and connections. We hold events that give us experience in design, development, interviewing, internships, team work, and more! You can see some of the events we've had to build these skills in our Events section below.Creativity
We want our members to strengthen their creativity by working on individual projects, participating in hackathons, and collaborating on ideas together.
Development
With our technical workshops and new web development team, we create opportunities for our members to get hands-on experience with different coding languages and industry tools and processes.
Teamwork
With our Discord server and variety of events, we try to cultivate an environment of not only technical and professional individuals but also people who bring those skills to a team and learn to collaborate on cool projects together.
Connections
We offer different kinds of social events for our members to connect on a regular basis, as well have an awesome Discord server for members to chat about various topics, help each other on projects, and even host their own events!
Our Executive Board
Meet our 2021-2022 E-board! Our e-board members work hard all year to bring awesome opportunities and events to our members. Interested in joining this awesome group of women? Stay tuned for our annual elections in the spring and any announcements for positions that may open in the meantime as some of our members graduate!
Become a Member
Signing up on NinerEngage will add you to our member list! Being on our member list means you will receive a welcome letter along with our weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date with us. These newsletters can also include event recaps, with slides, links, and other important information.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT:
Membership Requests for this semester are OPEN!
Want to join? Join GWC through our NinerEngage. Once your
request to join is approved by our Member Involvement Chair, you will receive a welcome email with the option to reply and get the Discord link. On Discord,
you will have access to awesome channels for you to get to know other GWC members, collaborate, have events, and so much more!
As a member, you also have access to:
✨ Our Weekly Newsletter
✨ Our Event Calendar
✨ Member-Only Events
✨ Our Web Team
Our Events
Check out some of the previous events we've had below! You can find more information on these, as well as posts from our social media series #MonthlyMotivations, #MemberResources, and #FunFactFridays on our social media accounts linked in the menu sidebar to the left. To see upcoming events, check out our schedule.
Code Lounge
We started virtual Code Lounge where you can come drink coffee,chat, work out the bugs, logic, life troubles... really anything.
Lets get over that mid-week hump together!
Spring Kickoff!
Members joined us to see what we were up to that semesterand what opportunities we had!
GitHub Workshop
We learned the basics of how to work with GitHub,VS Code, and collaborate with a team!
Hugo Workshop
We learned how to modify a Hugo theme and push it to our repos.We had fun playing with the text, colors, buttons, you name it!
Web Dev Meeting
We walked through our team setup on GitHuband looked through different Hugo themes to choose
one for our team to use with our new website.
Summer Web Dev Kickoff!
We met to discuss our plans for the summer and beginningour documentation phase for building our new website.
Web Dev Meeting: Let's Doc!
This was the beginning of our team working on our template documentation. We setup our Trello board and started dividing the work based on how much time each person wanted to put in.
Join our Team
This was a weekly post with updates on our Team Check-Insand Web Dev Meetings each week this summer.
CCI Concentration Panel
We had a series of panels where we learned abouttwo different CCI Concentrations at UNC Charlotte:
Software Engineering and Data Science.
Professional Development Workshop
We hosted a 2-day workshop for highschool girl scouts,teaching them how to work with a template to create an
online portfolio, and all about resumes, interviewing,
and applying to colleges.
Study with GWC
We hosted a study session where, after hitting the booksfor a bit, we could play Pictionary together.
Game Night with GWC
As part of our weekly Game Nights this summer, this wasa night for us to virtually play Pictionary together.
Game Night with GWC
As part of our weekly Game Nights this summer, this wasa night for us to virtually play Kahoot together.
Game Night with GWC
As part of our weekly Game Nights this summer, this wasa night for us to virtually play Kahoot together.
Spring 2022 Schedule
We have a variety of events planned for this spring semester. These include: Technical Workshops, Professional Events, Social Event, and our weekly Web Team Check-Ins and Code Lounge. You can see more details on individual events on our Member Calendar or on our NinerEngage.
Semester Events
Web Team Check-Ins (virtual)
Want to be a part of the Web Team? No experience needed! Join our weekly check-ins to see what we are doing and if you want to get involved. Coming to watch each week is 100% welcome as well! Join us via Zoom.
Main Events (see description)
These will alternate between workshops, professional events, and socials, typically 1 - 2 hours long. The day and times for these, as well as whether they are virtual, in-person, or hybrid may vary depending on the event. Check our Main Events calendar for the current month below!
Code Lounge (hybrid)
Come drink coffee, chat, work out the bugs, logic, life troubles... really anything. These sessions are purely here for technical support and socializing, however you want to use it. Enjoy some time to hangout with other GWC members via Zoom or in WOOD 209!
Important Notes for Virtual Events
When joining events virtually, make sure you are logged into zoom with your UNCC account if it's a GWC-specific event. Some events may note that they are open to the public, in which case a UNCC account is not required. However, most events are for GWC members or UNC Charlotte students. You can learn more about using your UNCC account with zoom here. For more on using zoom in general, see here.
Important Notes for In-Person Events
When joining events in-person, make sure you have registered (if required for that particular event) and are following all COVID-19 protocols. Safety is a priority at our events, and this means most in-person events will have a limited number of spaces and require registration to attend. For events where this is the case, it will be noted in the announcement for the event on here, our weekly newsletter, and on social media. If it is a hybrid event, in-person attendance will require registration, while virtual attendance will not.
Main Events
Events with an asterisk* will require registration
To see the latest updates to our events, add our GWC Members calendar to yours! You can do this
with the link in our Weekly Newsletter. Want to receive our newsletter? Check out the Members tab!
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For quick access to registration links for upcoming events and our regular zoom link, see here.
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Each month we will have the general schedule above. Then our Main Events will alternate between workshops, professional events, and socials, with the first main event of each month being the Code Lounge. You can see these for the current month to the left!
Important Notes
✨ Some events require registration
✨ Workshops are open to all students!
✨ Some events may be virtual or in-person
✨ Some events have limited spots
Web Development Team
We started our very own Web Development Team! This is open to anyone at any experience level to come work with some awesome people and learn to design, build, and deploy websites. Our first project is to build a new website for our student organization.
Join Us!
You can join and be a developer, archivist, analyst, or trainee. There is something for everyone!
It's as easy as showing up to our meetings or can be a fun challenge to follow along and contribute.
Any contributions are only as much time as you want to put in. So come be a part of an amazing team,
even if only to learn by observing! Learn more in our guide with the button below.
Please note: The guide is unavailable from Sundays at 8pm to Mondays at 5pm each week for updates.
Last Year
Last year, we began learning to use VS Code, GitHub, and a Hugo template (so we don’t have to build from scratch). We also learned to use Figma to document our design plan! When developing something with a team, and something that will be passed on to future members to maintain, it’s important to have documentation about your design choices. For example, specific fonts, color palettes, etc. that you used to create our branding. We worked to develop our own guide and learned one of the most used design and prototyping tools in the industry!
This Semester
This semester, we are officially starting the development process! Join us for our Web Team Kickoff on January 31st to learn more about how this will work and how you can get involved.
Want to join?
The deadline to officially join the team and help develop is February 14th at 5:00pm,
but you can come to watch anytime! To join the team, follow the TODO list for this week in the Web Team Guide (linked above).
Once you have completed those steps, you will be added to our team roster!
What happens next? All team members will be given access to the GitHub repo, Figma board, Google Drive folder,
and web team channel on Discord next week after our meeting.
Questions?
Want to get more info on our team or discuss how you can get involved?
Send Ash (our Web & Media Chair) an email: ✉️ girlswhocodeuncc+media (at) gmail (dot) com
Our Partners
Check out the companies who have partnered with us for some of our events! Are you a company who would like to partner with us on an event? We'd love to connect, just check out our Contact section.
Sponsor options coming soon!
Contact Us
If you have specific questions for any of our e-board members, please send them an email using their corresponding address. If you have any general questions for our organization, please send us an email at✉️ girlswhocodeuncc (at) gmail (dot) com
✉️ President: Elise Frazier
girlswhocodeuncc+president (at) gmail (dot) com
✉️ VP of Communications: Zaina Shawar
girlswhocodeuncc (at) gmail (dot) com
✉️ Treasurer: Chanel Briggs
girlswhocodeuncc+treasurer (at) gmail (dot) com
✉️ Web & Media Chair: Ashley Harmon
girlswhocodeuncc+media (at) gmail (dot) com
✉️ Membership Chair: Ayushi Patel
girlswhocodeuncc+membership (at) gmail (dot) com
✉️ Community Outreach Chair: Kaitlyn Gosline
girlswhocodeuncc+outreach (at) gmail (dot) com
*Please note we have incorporated the (at) and (dot) to help prevent spam to our email address.
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This site was last updated on 03-02-22.
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