Backbone Entertainment, a local games studio, is having an open house to celebrate their 12th anniversary at their studio. Students are welcome to attend to check out the company that developed hit titles like “Age of Kings”, Rift, and other Xbox 360 Live Arcade titles. Open house dates are May 4th and 6 to 8th. Contact Backbone directly for times.

For more information, check out the linked poster.

When:

Thursday, May 4, 2006 - 09:00 to Monday, May 8, 2006 - 18:00

Where:

110-1650 West 1st Avenue

Win an Ipod Nano at Business Objects’ upcoming technical evaluation.

This evaluation will consist of 2 parts—16 multiple choice questions and 3 coding questions. The multiple choice questions are evenly distributed across 4 major areas (4 questions in each area):

1. OOD/OOP
2. Distributed Systems
3. Multi-threading
4. Software Test Fundamentals

The coding questions can be written in either Java or C++, and will cover topics such as searching, string replacement, and object oriented programming.

Please bring a pen or pencil, as it is a written evaluation (no other support/reference is allowed - no text books or calculators please).

You must meet the following criteria and must be registered for the session!

1. You are in your last year of studies and will be able to start working full-time before end of 2006.
2. You have not written the Business Objects Technical Evaluation within the past 12 months.

To register or if you have any questions, please email Nelly Huang.

New grads are also encouraged to apply online for the following positions:

New Grad Software Developer

New Grad Software Test Developer

When:

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 16:00 to 17:30

Where:

Dempster 310

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Career

The FoWCS Committee and the Jade Project are sponsoring a new program for high school girls called ChicTech. Teams of four girls and one teacher from area high schools will create web sites for non-profit organizations, and all of their projects will be judged in a competition at UBC at the end of the year. More information about the project is available at http://www.chictech.ca

Who We Need:

• Mentors: Teams of two UBC students (one male, one female) will mentor one team each in the spring to encourage and help them with their projects. Requires only ONE in-person visit to the team; thereafter you can communicate with them via phone and/or email.
• Speakers: During the month of November, we need volunteers to visit IT or CAPP classes in area high schools (Vancouver, Richmond, North & West Van) and talk a little about ChicTech for ~10 minutes. We will provide a script and arrange for a public speaking training session. You can do as few or as many schools as you like. If you are an alum we can arrange for you to visit your old high school.

If you’d like to help us out with either of these roles, please reply to ChicTechUBC(at)gmail.com with the role name (Mentor, Speaker) in the subject line.

Find out why being a Co-op student is the best career decision you can make at University! In the program, you can:

• Get real programming experience
• Make $ $ $
• Make industry contacts
• Travel to exotic places

There are two identical info sessions, so choose whichever one you can attend. But make sure you get your application in, in time for Friday, March 24, 2006. Applications must be submitted to Denise Jesudason at ICICS/CS x2412.

• Thursday, March 9 @ 4:30pm - 6pm MacMillan Building Rm 166 OR
• Wednesday, March 15 @ 3pm - 4:30pm MacMillan Building Rm 158

More Co-op details can be found at http://www.sciencecoop.ubc.ca or see the attached poster.

When:

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 - 14:00 to 15:30

Where:

MacMillan Building Room 158

Tags:

Career

Passionate about computing? Want to share your Com-Sci skills with others, especially grade 6 girls?

A FoWCS initiative, GIRLsmarts is a computer science workshop for grade 6 girls. On Jan. 27 and Feb. 3 2007 the workshop will be run the fourth time here at UBC. GIRLsmarts is free for participants (the girls) and we are now recruiting volunteers.

If you are interested in helping out with advertising, activity facilitators, group leaders, meeters and greeters… or other miscellaneous tasks that have to get done to keep the workshop running smoothly, check out out website at jadeproject.ca/girlsmarts (editor’s note: website now closed and obtained by unrelated organization) for more info about the workshop and the volunteer application process.

And if you still have any questions, email us at [email protected].

Thanks.