[UCLA IEEE] Week 8, Spring 2023
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General Announcements
IEEE Bucket Hats Available NOW!
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This Week’s Events
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ECE Townhall
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm on May 24th in the Shannon Room Engineering IV #54-134
Have some feedback you’d like to share with the ECE Department? IEEE, WATT, and HKN are excited to host the ECE department’s Spring 2023 Townhall on Wednesday of Week 8, May 24th, from 6-8pm in the Shannon Room (Engineering IV - Room 54-134). This is your opportunity to share your concerns with and advice for the department! The results of the survey will be shared with the EE department and guide discussion at the townhall.
Please fill out the anonymous survey for free pizza at the event here: https://forms.gle/vcLefHP76MnJcmCX7
Separate from the anonymous survey form, please RSVP with this link: https://forms.gle/5c1HbB1foiCbR3DNA
All America Micromouse Competition
10:30 am to 3:00 pm on May 28th in the Kerckhoff State Room
AAMC (All-America Micromouse Competition) is our annual project event to bring other schools together over one Micromouse competition, on top of allowing our Micromouse students show off all their hard work! Each competing team will put their mice to the test, solving complex mazes in with the fastest times. This year's event will be hosted in the Kerckhoff State Rooms at UCLA, and will be on Memorial Day Weekend Sunday May 28th. More info about the event can be found at https://tinyurl.com/aamcinfo2023 !
Next Week’s Events
IEEE at UCLA’s First Annual Project Showcase
10:00 am to 4:00 pm on June 3rd in Engineering VI Mong Auditorium
Attention ECE faculty and students! Join us at Engineering VI Mong Auditorium on Saturday June 3, 2023 as IEEE hosts its first annual Project Showcase, where students from our year long projects, in addition to students who have completed individual projects, present the technical knowledge they've learned and accomplishments they've made during this year. Lunch will be provided!
Projects
OPS Capstone Worksession 2
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm on May 24th, Boelter Makerspace
We're on the final countdown...to the end of the Capstone! Tidy up your capstone cars with Miriam and Eli in the 2nd Floor Boelter Makerspace for our FINAL OPS WORKSESSION! Don't miss out on the last chapter of your OPS 2022-2023 season!
Micromouse Overnight Worksession
8:00 pm on May 27th in the Tesla Room
Opportunities/Plugs
None yet!
Member of the Week
Evan Bird
Year and major: Sophomore, Electrical Engineering
Involvement with IEEE: Micromouse Member, Corporate Relations Officer
Hobbies: guitar/choir, video games (smash bros, overwatch), hiking (love national parks), gym
Favorite memory with IEEE: Time spent working and making new friends in the lab this year.
Your most useless talent or fun fact: I'm good at throwing cards // I've been on america's got talent
What you would be doing if time and money were not an issue: I would be looking for new Mexican restaurants to try and swimming at the beach. I would also travel more and hang out with my dog Larry.
Piece of advice to our readers: Be kinder to yourself, try not to compare with others, and take the long way now and then.
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