Boo | T1W5 Newsletter

This week: the 2nd half of our spooky celebrations, a Game Jam - but in Scratch, Fresher Rep Elections, an industry talk from QRT, and our courses continuing!

Forget what we said about relaxed schedules last week, with an event every day from Monday to Saturday! We start with our trip to Kasbah to get a spooky clubbing fix, our new sponsor Qube will give us an insight into their industry, and our Scratch Game Jam with Game Design will be great fun (and technically, academic)!

Our courses are nearing completion and still going strong, with the cross-society Python course in its penultimate week and our Rust course finishing! 1st years will have a chance to run and vote in the elections for our Fresher Rep!

👻 Spooky Weekly Pub Meal

🕖 Mon 31 Oct 7pm - 9pm 📍 The Flying Standard
Venturing decidedly off-campus, we'll explore some of Coventry's fine establishments! We'll do our usual pub meal in the Flying Standard then some of us will go off to Kasbah! We'll be taking a trip down from the campus bus interchange about 6:15. Bring your best costumes!

Note change of location to The Flying Standard, originally City Arms

👻 Spooky Kasbah

🕘 Mon 31 Oct 9pm - 11:59pm 📍 Kasbah Night Club
🎶Spooky Scary Skeletons send shivers down your spine🎶 Get your spooky and clubbing fix in Kasbah! We'll be going down straight from the Flying Standard

(Warwick) STEM Careers Fair

🕚 Tue 1 Nov 11am - 4pm 📍 Rootes Building (2nd Floor)
Organised by Warwick Careers Service. We had Computing your Career last week, but if you missed out or want more, the university have a STEM Careers Fair this Tuesday.

🌐 xSoc Python Course Session 5

🕖 Tue 1 Nov 7pm - 9pm 📍 OC0.03 / OC0.01
5th session on Exception Handling & Classes, run by Warwick AI. Aimed at complete beginners, this course will kick-off your programming journey in style! This is the 2nd last week, with the last taken back by us!

This course will take you from a complete novice to creating a quiz program, so if you've fancied creating some gadgets, a website, or automating some daily task: this course will bring anyone up to speed! Find materials and catch-up on previous weeks at go.uwcs.uk/python

🎤 Industry Talk: Qube

🕝 Wed 2 Nov 2:30pm - 4pm 📍 OC0.03
Interested in a career in data science, quant finance or software engineering? Come along to meet the team at QRT, and hear about some of the work they’re doing. We'll also have some free food and Qube merch!

From QRT:

Join us for this talk where we will offer a window into the world of electronic trading and life at the fastest growing and best performing quant hedge fund over the last few years. One of our senior engineers, Dominic Browne will walk through the stack that makes up a trading system and cover some of the intricacies of the exciting technical challenges we work on. You will hear from Xander Sheppard who joined QRT as a graduate 2 years ago on what it’s like to be a part of QRT as a technologist and the quant finance space in general, along with why our culture is pivotal to our success. Followed by some insights into our opportunities, our interview process and how you can apply.

⚙️ Rust Course 4 (Final)

🕖 Thu 3 Nov 7pm - 9pm 📍 CS0.01
For experienced programmers. This week we'll have a bumper lab session to finish off the projects. Whether you've got to CHIP-8 or Raytracing, we'll be around to help out and get you completed!

With the support of a grant by the Rust Foundation, we'll be guiding you through what makes Rust stand out from the crowd, and get hands-on with some projects. First, Tic-tac-toe. Next, a Chip-8 Interpreter. Finally, a Graphics Raytracer built from the ground up. Not to be missed!

Follow along at rs118.uwcs.co.uk

🎮 Friday Night Gaming

🕗 Fri 4 Nov 8pm - 11:59pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
Join us Friday for a night of fun! With a ton of games and consoles, plus our VR setup. Join us Friday for a night of fun! With a ton of games and consoles, plus our VR setup. Last week had a certain amount of chaotic spookiness, so I can promise a less spoopy time, but no less fun!

🗳️ Fresher Rep Election

🕗 Fri 4 Nov 7:30pm - 8pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
Are you in 1st Year ? Want to get more involved with the creation of our events? Consider applying for Fresher Rep!

The Fresher Rep helps us to make sure our events are relevant and helpful for everyone in your year. You'd also be welcome to suggest and create events you'd like to see, of almost any type! For instructions on how to take part, see our event page linked in the title!

And most importantly: Only 1st years can vote in this election - it's a fresher rep, not a boomer selection!

🖌️ Scratch Game Jam

🕒 Sat 5 Nov 3pm - 6pm 📍 Department of Computer Science
We're doing a game jam with Game Design Society, just with one little twist, it's in Scratch! Last year, we had great fun doing this, with someone even creating a 3D game engine inside of Scratch. I'm sure a worryingly high number of you all started programming in Scratch, so feel some nostalgia and give it a go!

It's still not quite Halloween, and I'm almost Halloweened out! But then that's what spending so long on a Wither costume does to you

-- Owen [he/him] Links: 💬 Discord | 📷 Instagram | 🎟️ Join the Society

Sponsors

The society relies on sponsorship to fund events, infrastructure, and all that free pizza you all love so much, so go check out our three sponsors we have lined up for this academic year:

Student Roost - The Oaks
The Oaks is a student accommodation in Coventry with more brand new rooms for 2022. Situated less than a 10-minute walk from the University of Warwick and the only purpose-built student accommodation next to Warwick’s 750-acre main campus on the outskirts of Coventry, the accommodation is a popular choice among Warwick students. The Oaks Coventry combines the best of campus living within studio and en-suite rooms and easy transport links to and from nearby places of interest Coventry, Warwick, and Leamington Spa. Sound good? Book early to avoid disappointment for next year, or if you're still looking for a place for this year, The Oaks still have rooms available, including their new en-suite rooms for only £159pw! Find out more at https://www.studentroost.co.uk/locations/coventry/the-oaks.

Nettitude
Founded in 2003, Nettitude is an award-winning global provider of cybersecurity services, bringing innovative thought leadership to the cybersecurity marketplace. Through their research and innovation centres, they provide threat led services that span technical assurance, consulting and managed detection and response offerings. Considering a career in Cyber Security? They're looking for deeply passionate and enthusiastic people with a meddlesome nature and self-starting, driven attitude to join the Accelerator Program. Visit https://www.nettitude.com/ to find out more, or contact the team at recruitment@nettitude.com.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT)
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative and innovative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges.

We strongly believe that long-term investment into our people is critical to our future success and distinctive culture, as demonstrated by our low turnover in staff and continuous growth. We are proud of our exceptionally talented, collaborative and diverse teams, and now are looking to add motivated, intellectually curious STEM students and graduates with entrepreneurial spirit to our team. We have a number of internship, industrial placement and graduate roles across Software Engineering, Data Engineering & Analytics and Infrastructure & Cloud Engineering, all within our amazing new office that looks out over London.

We are one of the best performing and fastest growing multi-strat quant hedge funds over the last couple years and we are just getting started…

Our roles will be live by mid-November but in the meantime, contact our team to find out more at campus@qube-rt.com

Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, they offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Their 710,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. They embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for their clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit them at https://accenture.com/.

Find out more at https://uwcs.co.uk/sponsors