 Okay, awesome. Hi guys. Okay, perfect. We'll go ahead and get started then. So I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Ava. I'm the peer advisor for computer science engineering. I'm a third year in computer science. And today we have geeks with us here. If you guys want to introduce yourselves. Yeah, I can go first. I'm Kavey. I'm the marketing head for geeks. I'm one of the geeks that's e-board. And I'm a CS major. And I'm a senior. Hi, my name is Shreya and I'm in the marketing committee with Kavey. And I am a junior and I'm a CS major. Okay, awesome. Perfect. So get us started. Can you guys just tell us what geeks is, maybe what it stands for, and then kind of what your main goal is? So basically, a geeks stands for girls in electrical engineering and computer science. And it's pretty much a way for professional and social development for girls and eeks. And our professional side, we do a lot of workshops, information sessions, recruiting advice, and then we also have our social sites where we have a lot of like bonding activities. And we always have good food at those. Yeah. And yeah, just getting to know other girls and eeks, it's really beneficial. You can get advice or just even make friends. Awesome. And then you were just talking a little bit maybe about some committees that you have. Do you want to talk a little bit more about what different committees that you have in geeks? Yeah, so well, the both of us on the marketing committee we have been for a few years now, but we basically manage social media. We create like flyers, branding, merch, all that stuff for geeks. So marketing is marketing it mainly to like the members and geeks, but also externally. And then we have outreach where we do a lot of work with girls and non binary students in high school to get them interested in like CS encoding. So we have like coding, like, like sessions for a lot of high schools around Ann Arbor and just honestly, like, like schools outside of Ann Arbor as well, like we connect girls in high schools to get them more interested in coding. And then we have the professional committee that does work for geeks members they host workshops for like tech, like technical interview prep behavioral interview prep. And then we lastly have the internal committee where they release blog posts on what it's like to be like this, you know, a girl a student in Michigan. And just recently we actually just had a blog post I was just about like managing your stress and it was just like really nice. It's like, yeah, we like it. That's awesome. Okay, that's perfect overview and then you're mentioning a part of like the professional team maybe some like interview prep and stuff with that like what type of skills can people learn through geeks. Yeah, I think that so the thing with technical interviews is no many people have experienced with it and you don't really can't really get that from a book. So with geeks, what they're planning on doing with the next it actually starts this Thursday and they're going to be having sessions from now on, where you're going to get matched up like paired up with another person who signed up for this program. And you will be interviewing one another and I feel like that's a super valuable skill because you get you're simulating like a technical interview like experience with someone else in real time, which I think is super beneficial. And also they will be going over concepts as well like data structures and stuff like a lot of us took 280 a while ago. Yeah, those concepts are SD and recruiting is happening right now so you know it's a good refresher and just those communication skills as well. Yeah, that's awesome. That's a great opportunity. And then switching sides a little bit. I know you guys went to the grace hopper conferences here. Do you want to talk a little bit about what that is for people maybe don't know about it on kind of how your experience was. Yeah, so grace hopper is basically this conference that takes place every year around September. It's for women non by non binary students and professionals in tech to come together and it's this huge like recruiting conference. And it happened in Florida this year. And we took around 15 members and completely all paid for which was nice. I know. Yeah, it's such a great experience because the last few years it's been virtual. So it's really nice to have been able to go in person and a bunch of companies like a lot of big companies Google, Apple, Amazon, they all come up and they set up stalls and like boots and they decorate it and you can go and talk to recruiters and like people who work there like actual engineers and a lot of people have been like given internships like on the spot when they go and like talk to them and things like that or like full time roles. I know currently we're going to like a bit of a recession and yeah not the best time to be graduating but definitely a lot of internship roles that a lot of people got this year so I feel like it's a great way to just network and meet people from like different parts of the US different women in like these super high profile companies. Yeah, it was extremely like valuable experience. That's awesome. Yeah, I know great conferences like an amazing opportunity so it's awesome you guys had a great time. And with that too how do people get involved and I know you mentioned that you guys sponsor people fully to go how do people tend to get that. So actually the way we do it is we do have an application that comes out I think at end of like winter semester maybe the start of the summer. And I think the way we choose is of course it's pretty holistic we go through your application but we also see your involvement in geeks. So if you're on a committee if you're on a committee you do get more like we have something called geeks points that you earn by attending events. So the more events you attend the more points you get if you're on a committee you get more points if you're in a family you get more points. So we look at the points we look at your application and then we like also see if you're a senior like you're like if you're junior senior slightly more likely to go because you may not have you know as many chances to go later. So it's like a pretty holistic person selecting people. That's awesome okay that's great to know. And then with that too so you were talking kind of about some companies that were at Grace Hopper Conference. What type of companies or I guess what companies do people in geeks typically go to work at after being part of geeks. I think people at least tend to go to like the big big tech companies. We actually geeks are sponsored by a lot of big ones like Meadow, Meadow are sponsored by us. So a lot of these companies it is actually so geeks actually has a resume book that like gets these companies which is really great. So based off points like you can get like they'll reach out to you for it and then you'll have your book out there. That's awesome okay that's great to hear. With that too do you want to talk a bit more about those professional opportunities. I know you talked about having the I think you said the new program about coding interviews and tech interviews. What other like professional opportunities do you guys tend to work on? Is there any like resumes or like LinkedIn I'm not sure. Yeah so we have so with our sponsors we have a lot of events with them especially in the fall semester when we're like heavy with recruiting. So I know we've had like maybe in the last two months had events with Bloomberg and Google. I think we got over the 10% the bad apples batting. So we basically had like Google and Bloomberg come in and have their kudos talk to us. And basically we'd share like their resume book with them and then they would ask you to apply and then they could contact you later. So we have a lot of recruiting events in that sense. Tons of company info sessions info sessions. Yeah. And sometimes even like technical interview like perhaps Goldman Sachs did that with us where they like walked us through the like technical interview process. That's awesome that sounds like really great opportunities to come to companies. And on the other side of that, and you guys mentioned social events. What are some typical social events that you guys have I know I've seen that you guys have collaborated with other organizations. I know you mentioned food. If you want to talk about that. Thanks so Michigan hackers. We've done a couple of events together with socials and. Yeah, I feel like it's just a great way to kind of get to know other tech clubs at Mumech. Sweet sweet was another one. A shift to I wish we had more like events or chip but we did one with sweet where we went to use the ice and that was super fun. So I think we're bowling. Yeah. So we're constantly trying to like have events with other clubs on campus and yeah food we always have food at our events. Every time. It's so nice. Yeah. Avoid. I just avoid cooking dinner like yeah just go to a game. I love that. That's awesome. That sounds like really great social events with that too. I kind of want to ask like what the time commitment usually is of geeks. Do you expect a certain amount of commitment from members or like how do you guys balance classes with that as well. Sure. I can go as like a committee member and then. Yeah, I would say so before I was even on the committee personally I think that whatever you put in you got. So it's kind of like when you first come in you know you're getting your points you're attending small events and then I feel like once you're in a committee it's definitely a lot more you have deadlines like you're doing a lot more for the club. So I would say like if you were doing like an average like maybe like two hours a week like it's not too crazy but yeah. Yeah, yeah, I definitely think as a committee member your time commitment goes up a little but but it's not crazy. It's not crazy. Definitely as a board member goes up by now just because you look over committee and you also have to plan events like we have board meetings every week. But still honestly like it's it's fun work like I'm not lying I'm not trying to be like cheesy and be like it's fun. Genuinely is fun at least if you're passionate about your committee like I love making posters. I love branding and things like that so I would say maybe it's a five hour commitment. Sometimes it gets more sometimes it gets less planning people definitely went up by a lot. But you also have slump sometimes. Yeah, not bad. Yeah, that's a great overview of kind of how the time committed is and then with that too. How can people in CS kind of get involved in Geeks I know you mentioned committees there's certain application for that or for members as well. So we don't have any member fee like joining fee. It's free to show up and basically a member just sign in and we start keeping track of our members with like Geeks points. So at every session like at every event we have a sign in link and you sign in and then you get your point and committees. Yes, we do have an application. But once you're on a committee, the thing is the unofficial thing is usually at least me I love having Tray on my committee. She's like come right back. I'm like just come back. You have to submit an application but if the initial one was good. The initial ones usually the most important one and usually come back to the committee. Okay, that's great. And then with that too. I kind of want to ask like what events or maybe opportunities you have coming up maybe that people could start going to or just start attending. Yeah, we have one today actually with mine. It's with it's like hybrids you can join online or go to North campus that will be food. And then obviously super cool though but yeah for that one there's like a panel of some alumni coming and their female alumni who work at Minecraft. So yeah, and we have a Deloitte event to on Wednesday, and we have an elections info session because Geeks is like e-boat gets elected for the calendar year and not the academic year. Thank you. So we're going to have a new set of people coming in leadership. Yeah, fun. That's great. Okay, that's a great overview of the events and stuff I'm excited for the Minecraft events is here. So that's really, really cool. And then I guess just to wrap it up with my questions. I kind of just want to ask my last question and what's your as his favorite part of Geeks. Okay, personally, which I don't think we've brought this up yet but Geeks also does mentorship. Yeah. And so we have it's generally it's not really like a generally upperclassmen will be mentors and then underclass will be the mentees. Yeah, and it's just like, I loved my family when I joined it. It's really great. It's just like a nice way to have to get advice from like older, like students who have taken classes that you have know what it's like to be an eeks major. So yeah, that's my favorite part for sure. And I think my favorite part is just like finding a community in like eeks. Eeks is so big and male dominated usually. And I was someone who didn't have any coding experience coming in that wasn't a CS major for the longest time so it's like coming in I got to meet so many people in my classes could do like CS like projects with them and things like that. So it was finding a mini community within this like super big like campus. So, yeah, I've met all my partners through. Yeah, yeah, my ex partners. That's awesome. I know me too. I've also used geeks. I remember like for I was an internship. Yeah, I didn't know anybody and then geeks was amazing research for that. So that's awesome. Yeah, we love geeks. That's great. Well, that was awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining us here and answering our questions here and giving us a good overview of geeks. And I hope you guys have a great Minecraft event tonight. I look forward to seeing the events for the rest of the year. So thank you so much. See you. Thank you. Thank you.