Gaby Moreno Cesar Advisors: Norm Badler, Aline Normoyle

WiCS University

Senior Project Poster Day 2013 • Department of Computer Science • University of Pennsylvania

Social network for women in computer science groups

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Universities nationwide have clubs for women in com-puter science, commonly called WICS. Even though these clubs operate independently they still share very similar professional, academic, social, and outreach oriented goals.

Despite the overlap, these clubs don’t have a central-ized way of communicating with each other. They don’t have a way of sharing events, ideas, successes and failures, or even getting to know each other’s mem-bers.

•Conduct user research to learn how WiCS clubs share information with each other• Help users stay up to date on other clubs’ activities• Allow users to find and reuse successful events

• Browsing what events are other clubs hosting?• Filtering low budget, not much time to plan high budget, a week to plan• Create event from scratch event is original• Create event from template well rated, successful events can be reused• How to structure a WiCS board club profiles can be used for reference

Built using the Meteor.js, an open-source platform for building web apps. Includes Backbone for URL routing and the Handlebars templat-ing package.

•More user studies• Recruit more schools• Privacy settings• Chat and messaging• Future work in online collaboration and content reuse could involve other club chapters (ex: SWE, SHPE, SIGGRAPH).

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The Rink | 9:00 pm

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100 Members

Computer Science100 students

Sneha KeshwaniPresident

Johanna MartensPresident

Allison PearceTreasurer

Jasmine LeeSecretary

Teresa FanFreshman Liason

Elissa Wolf Kaycee Anderson Fannie Liu Trisha Kothari Charu Jangid

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