Hello everyone! Thank you to all who attended our Tech Talk with Tesla. We hope you got a lot of value from it. We have some fun events coming up, including our workout class with Peach Lab and our Galentine’s Event, co-hosted with Adobe to make virtual Valentines! We also have Coffee Chats this week, so feel free to stop by and ask/talk to us about anything and get a point. If you’re interested in any of these, RSVP in our Upcoming Events Sections to secure your spot!
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Upcoming Events 📅
Coffee Chats / Meet the Board 🫱🏽🫲🏼
See our Google Calendar for our coffee chats this week!
You can earn a point for coming by scanning the QR code!
GEECS x Adobe Galentine’s Event 💗
Date: Sunday 2/16/25
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: TBA
RSVP: https://forms.gle/9tb3KwfUxAyJ4iDj6
GEECS x Peach Lab Workout Sesh! 🍑
Date: 2/18/25
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: 1220 S University Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Come socialize and take a free workout class @PeachLab with other GEECS members<3 Spots are limited, please register here: https://peachlabmi.com/classes?_mt=%2Fclasses%2F19622%2Freserve
*We will be double-checking that everyone who signed up is a GEECS member.*
Opportunities 📌
Virtual Info Session for Women+: Get to Know TDOE at Jane Street on 2/13!
Jane Street is hosting a virtual information session for women and other gender minority students! Join us to Get to Know Jane Street's Trading Desk Operations Engineer (TDOE) Internship on Thursday, February 13th at 6:00pm ET.
Women+ Get to Know Trading Desk Operations Engineer (TDOE) at Jane Street!
Date: Thursday, February 13th
Location: Zoom
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm ET
Join us for a virtual information session for women and other gender minority students about Jane Street's TDOE Internship! As a Trading Desk Operations Engineer (TDOE) intern, you’ll be integral to the firm’s success, helping to build and maintain desk infrastructure that supports the trading of thousands of financial products across 200 venues in over 45 countries.
TDOE Interns wear many hats, helping to manage the operational side of the trading desk’s activities and interfacing with various groups within the firm to ensure our work is accurate and efficient. Join us to learn more!
Sign up here by EOD on Tuesday, February 11th. We will confirm attendees by EOD on February 12th. While all graduation years are encouraged to sign up, the event is intended for 2026 grads.
2025 Joy of Coding Student Coach Application, Due March 13, 2025
Hello Everyone,
This summer, we are offering a program, The Joy of Coding, intended for high school students to learn to code. We are seeking current students to help as student coaches for the program. This is the fourth year offering the program. Over 4k students from 50 states and over 25 countries have taken this course.
This is a great way to introduce students to the exciting world of coding and make a great impact on their future plans and careers! As a coach, your role is to help unlock the student’s ability to solve the problem independently (versus telling them the answer!). If helping students overcome bottlenecks in their learning to code and seeing the “lightbulb moment” excites you, please consider joining the course as a coach this summer. Your coaching could make a positive difference one student at a time.
Interested students can submit an APPLICATION, which is due Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 5:00PM ET.
Part of the application includes submitting a 3 minute video. Further details are in the application.
Coaches will be expected to
Be available 3-4 hours a week during the duration of the course June 18 - July 30, 2025 and 2-3 hours a week from August 1 - August 23, 2025
Be able to successfully complete a background check
Complete all necessary training before the start of the program
Meet for an in-person on-campus training session at a TBD time and place April
Qualifications
Be a current student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Enjoy patiently coaching students when stuck (versus telling them the answer)
Have programmed before and know how to translate logic into code and vice versa
Have programmed in Python and/or or are willing to learn
Compensation
Student coaches will receive $26 per hour
Further Information
Coaching is a skill that gets better with practice, and is a mindset that requires deliberate reflective practice to go above and beyond. As a coach you’ll get new insights into how students learn, how and why they are getting stuck and how satisfying it is when you help them get unstuck. Learning to coach can help you become a better teacher and amplify your leadership skills in all you do beyond your time at Michigan. As part of the course in your coaching role, you’ll be prompted with reflective exercises to help foster the ideal outcomes of enhanced leadership and communication skills. This will be a strand of professional development embedded through your time assisting with the course.
Coaches should be available to get learners unstuck as they work their way through an interactive online instructional textbook and the accompanying coding assignments. Your role is student-centered; therefore, you will primarily interact with them via a shared email inbox and student-scheduled zoom calls. You will tag-team shifts with other coaches working together as a team to staff the inbox and respond to student’s questions as they arise through the online course’s duration, June 18, 2025 - July 30, 2025 and the 3 weeks past that to the start of the UM semester.
You’ll need to be available to complete the training before the end of the semester so that we can be ready before the start of the program.
If you have any further questions please email us joyofcoding@umich.edu.
We look forward to reviewing your application!
Go Blue!
The Joy of Coding Team
Invitation to apply to the D. E. Shaw group
Hello,
I hope you’re doing well! I wanted to reconnect to share some new student opportunities with the D. E. Shaw group. We’re now accepting applications for our New York summer 2026 internships in these areas:
Discretionary Investing
Strategy and Business Development
I’ve included more information below about which internships are currently open. Students can check out this video to see what it’s like to intern with us or visit our website to apply for any roles that interest them. We review applications on a rolling basis and plan to begin interviewing candidates early next month. I also want to note that we don’t set time limits on our offers, regardless of whether students are already in the recruiting process elsewhere.
Feel free to reach out to me with any questions!
Julia Dodenhoff
Human Capital | Recruiting
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.
Two Manhattan West, 375 Ninth Avenue | New York, NY 10001
A little more about the D. E. Shaw group:
Since our founding in 1988, we’ve earned a worldwide reputation for innovation, rigorous risk management, cutting-edge technology, and the quality of our people. Visit our website to learn more about our culture and impact, research, and programs.
Our internships are open to students from all academic backgrounds who want to build skills and relationships, work on high-impact initiatives, and learn about investing and technology from experts inside and outside the firm.
We strive for the D. E. Shaw group to be a rewarding place to work and grow, where our people can reach their full potential. Collaborating with people from different backgrounds allows us to solve complex problems and achieve unusually ambitious goals.
SAPAC Survivor Speak Out - February 23rd 1-2:30PM
Hello Girls in Electrical Engineering and CS,
We invite you to attend SAPAC’s 40th Annual Survivor Speak Out hosted by the Survivor Empowerment and Ally Support (SEAS) program on Sunday, February 23rd 1-2:30PM in the Hussey Room in the League.
To register ahead of time, please fill out this form:
https://forms.gle/Gcejf4PCVQmxQbt77
To submit your story anonymously, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/Y1VMYsSGnQX47L5j7
The purpose of this event is to provide a supportive space for University of Michigan student survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, harassment, and stalking to tell their stories. We welcome all types of expression and we will be accepting anonymous, pre-submitted stories to be read by SAPAC volunteers. All identities are welcome. All members of the campus community are invited to listen and offer support as survivors share
the complexities of healing in the wake of sexual violence.
There will be an open mic for attendees who wish to speak. Survivors also have the option to submit their stories anonymously (through the form linked above) to be read aloud by SAPAC volunteers if they do not feel comfortable doing so themselves.
In order to minimize disruptions for those sharing, we encourage you to stay for the duration of the event. There will be a break half-way through the event where participants can enter or leave.
We forbid video, pictures, or any type of recording of the event and will require all individuals who join the space to abide by the guidelines established at the start of the event in order to maintain a supportive space.
We have also attached a flyer that we would appreciate you sharing with anybody who might be interested! If you have any questions please feel free to email valhuang@umich.edu or anaswans@umich.edu .
We hope to see you there!
Warm regards,Olivia
SAPAC SEAS Volunteer
Women Who Win
Join us for the 7th annual Women Who Win (WWW), an evening of empowering and inspiring the next generation of women in business, entrepreneurship, and tech. This year, we’re thrilled to welcome Jenny Just - one of the few self-made female billionaires in the United States, business transformer, investor, poker player, U-M alum - as our Keynote Speaker. The event will also feature poker play, community building, and low stakes, high fun.
https://www.michiganbusinesswomen.org/women-who-win.html
GEECS Networks 🕸
Find other GEECS members interning or working full-time at your company/near your location this summer through this spreadsheet!
Introduce yourself to current GEECS members in this slideshow! Feel free to add your intro, social media, linkedin, etc. Add yours here!
Getting advice and hearing experiences from other GEECS members is a go-to throughout college. Join our LinkedIn page if you’re interested in sharing your experiences with GEECS peers or reaching out to others.
Stay Connected: Here is our LinkTree!
Social Media 📱
GEECS Sponsors 🏆
Thank you to our sponsors for supporting GEECS and empowering women in technology!
Your Officers 👩💻
Yaire Lopez-Quiroz, President, lopezqui@umich.edu
Lauren Rodriguez, Vice President, lrodz@umich.edu
Sara Saaidi, Internal Relations, ssaaidi@umich.edu
Sophia Cao, Treasurer, sophcao@umich.edu
Han Zhang, Membership, zhanghz@umich.edu
Tessa Lee, Marketing, tessalee@umich.edu
Katelyn Abellera, Outreach, kabeller@umich.edu