ACM-W is back with great news - we are glad to announce that on the eve of International Women’s Day we will be hosting our annual codeW 2022 event! 🤩🤩🤩

codeW is the 3rd annual event for girls that offers an opportunity to test your coding skills by solving algorithmic problems 👩🏽‍💻, attend lectures of IT specialists from the world's leading companies 🌏 and get to know other aspiring female coders that share the same interests and goals as you 💫

This year codeW will also be conducted in a partially offline format 💃🏻 Contestants residing in Nur-Sultan can come to AstanaHub, from where we will be streaming our event 🤳🏽 (*number of seats is limited). Other participants can join us online 🏡

Thanks to our sponsors - our prize fund for this year amounts to over 250,000 tenge and has its own branded merch! 🏆💸🥳

So what are you waiting for? Hurry up to register! 🥰

Date: March 7, 2022
Languages: Kazakh, Russian, English
Registration deadline: February 27, 23:59
Registration link: www.codew.kz

Dear subscribers!

ACM Student Chapter invites you to the Google Hash Code for the 2022 Online Qualification Round. You can get more information about Hash Code from the poster or the official website below.

Date: February 24
Time: 23:00
Venue: TBA

To participate, please register here(g.co/hashcode).

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Updates regarding Google Hash Code📬

We are asking to fill out the Google form if you plan to come to the venue at NU campus provided by ACM-SC: https://forms.gle/GeKngkYcwGJ32QkQ8

Tomorrow we will announce the venue, so stay tuned!

Dear friends,

There is one day left before the end of registration* for codeW 2022😱 and a week left before the main contest👩‍💻 and we are glad to invite you to the workshop from our sponsor Palantir🤩🎉

During the “Technical Coding Interview” workshop, Palantir engineers will share tips and tricks, which can be used during technical interviews and coding challenges💻. Moreover, the company’s recruiting team will give guidance on how to prepare for non-technical questions👥.

Don’t miss your opportunity to learn insights from the engineers and recruiters of one of the leading big data analytics companies of the world!📈✨

Are you joining?😏

Date: March 3, 2022
Time: 18:00 (GMT+6)
Language of presentation: English

Link: MEETING LINK

❗️ Workshop is open to everybody. You don’t have to be a participant of codeW 2022.

*registration deadline for the contest was extended until 23:59 (GMT+6) of March 1, 2022.

Dear friends,
We are pleased to invite you to our annual Research Talk, where NU students will share their experience of doing research. This year, the list of our guest speakers include:

⚡️Aidyn Ubingazhibov is a senior CS student at NU, who had research internships in Computer Vision and Graph Neural Networks for emotion recognition at Agency for Science and Technology (A*STAR).

⚡️Meruyert Karzhaubayeva is a junior CS student at NU, who has been RA since June 2021. She worked on the source code of Darknet image detection system, familiarized herself with CUDA (C/C++ extension that allows GPU parallelism).

⚡️Batyrbek Mukhatbekov is a junior CS student at NU, who had research internships at The Institute for Infocomm Research of Agency for Science and Technology (A*STAR) in Singapore.

Speakers will discuss:
-> How they started doing research? 🤔
-> Their daily life as students-researchers ✨
-> Research internships 🤓

Date: March 3, 2022
Time: 17:00
Link: meet.google.com/phj-xopv-daf

Join our ACM SC Research Talk today!

Thursday, 3 Mar · 17:00–18:30
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/phj-xopv-daf

We are starting in 10 mins🙌

Dear Friends,

We are back with great news 🎉 ACM SC is glad to invite you to join the LeetCode Battle, where you will be able to:

⚡️Challenge your algorithmic problem-solving skills
⚡️ Understand your strengths and weaknesses
⚡️Have fun with your friends & meet more like-minded people

The battle will be conducted among groups of three people*, and will consist of 4️⃣ rounds.

🟢 During the first round (45 min) the teams will be given only easy LeetCode problems

🟡 While during the second one (1 hour), the remaining teams will work on the solution of medium LeetCode problems.

🟠 In round 3 (1.5 hours) teams that passed the previous rounds will solve LeetCode hard problems.

🔴 Only two teams😱 will progress to the final round, where they will fight for championship🥇

Are you joining? 😏 Hurry up to register via the link 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Date: March 20, 2022
Time: 1 pm (GMT+6)
Format: Offline
Venue: TBA

*teams should solve problems from one laptop

Dear Friends,

Please make sure that all three members of your team are registered via their NU corporate email addresses and all of them have access to NU campus. Otherwise, we cannot allow your team to participate 🙌

Hello everyone!

We hope you don't have too many plans for the coming break week, because ACM wishes to see you all on our second ACM hub! 🔥

ACM Hub is an exciting evening in the spirit of Ted Talks, where several speakers will share insights and their experiences from the stage 🙊 And in the breaks, we will have fun and raffle a prize 😍 Everyone can attend❗️

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SPEAKERS!

We need 3-4 speakers for the whole evening, who will have at most 10 minutes to present ideas and insights.

❕Speakers are free to choose any STEM-related topic that can be interesting for the audience

If you would like to become a speaker feel free to register via this form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSev_PTriDtudAqvMNqysEsicsmLzn6mJOYcOu7Nl_MRCPic4A/viewform?usp=pp_url

You should also send your presentation to @s_h_e_r_k_h_a_n prior to the event for checking.

We are waiting for you!❤️

Deadline for applications: 20.03, 14:00
Date of ACM hub: 23rd of March