Student-Faculty Engagement, Activities & Clubs
Activities
Upcoming Activities
2025
Fall 2025
Past Activities
Spring 2025
- Dive Into the Intersection of Computer Science and Healthcare by ACM
Guest Speaker: Dr. Umit Topaloglu, Chief of the Clinical and Translational Informatics Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Monday, April 14, 2025 I 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM I Manchester 024 - Pizza at Zicks by WiCS
Friday, March 21, 2025 I 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM I Zicks - Resume & Interview Workday by WiCS
Monday, March 24, 2025 I 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM I OPCD - Hackathon by Deacon Code
Saturday, February 22, 2205 I 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM I Manchester 229 - Coaster Making by WiCS
Sunday, February 16, 2025 I 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM I WakerSpace - Python Workshop by WiCS
Sunday, January 26, 2025 I 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM I WakerSpace
Fall 2024
- Quivia by ACM
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 I 6:30PM – 8:00PM I Manchester 024 - Useless Website Challenge by ACM
- Tech Alumni Speaker Panel by Deacon Code
Monday, November 4, 2024 I 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM I Greene 239 - Python Workshop by WiCS
Sunday, October 13, 2024 I 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM I WakerSpace
Spring 2024
- Quivia by ACM
Tuesday, April 10, 2024 I 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM I Manchester 016
Fall 2023
- Summer Internship Discussion & Student Panel by ACM
Monday, October 31, 2023 I 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM I Manchester 016 - Quivia by ACM
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 I 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM I Manchester 016
Our Student Clubs
“Beyond its international significance, WFU’s chapter of ACM serves as the liason from academia to extra-cirruculars in Computer Science. However, we welcome students of all majors and academic interests to join our organization. Hackathons, game nights, industry speakers and multitudinous opportunities in Computer Science are where we bond, growth and thrive.”
– Former Chapter President, Nick Gerace (2018)
ACM organizes Quivia once per academic year. It’s Quiz Bowl and Trivia combined. A chance to win prizes, enjoy food, have fun and just chill out. Each winning team member will receive a prize.
Each of the faculty provide questions that come straight from ALL the classes taught this year. This means, there will be questions from ALL LEVELS of CS including the 111 classes! Also, inserted are some basic CS trivia such as “Who invented the World Wide Web”? Lastly, there are trivia questions about the faculty such as “Which CS prof has a Masters degree in French”? Teams are made up of 3 to 4 players.
The Deacon Code is Wake Forest University’s premier software engineering organization. Focused on technical projects and development, we foster innovation and collaboration within the Wake Forest community.
Additionally, we provide opportunities to learn more about the technology industry and allow you to grow your skills through events like hackathons. Join us to code, create, and connect!
The Robotics Club at Wake Forest was founded in the fall of 2020 and gained provisional chartering by the university in the spring of 2021. We are a student led organization focused on providing students challenging and enriching projects, regardless of their previous experience in robotics. The only requirement is that you are willing to learn, we can teach the rest.
We value community, information-sharing, and encouragement among all students who are interested in computer science and technology.
Faculty-Student Engagement
The Department aims to provide rich opportunities for students to engage with the faculty and peer student colleagues outside of the classroom. Several of these activities include local, regional, and national or international competitions. A Student Cluster Competition Team participates frequently in the annual SuperComputing Conference series, while a Programming Team often attends a regional programming competition. Closer to home, we have hosted and participated in hackathons, as well as run our own “Quivia” computer science trivia competition annually.
Our programs are intended to capture the interest of a wide range of students and we invite you to learn more about each of these programs. Students interested in learning more about the competition should get in contact with the chair of the department.
Student Cluster Competition Team
Computer Science students frequently participate in the Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing Conference series. This is made possible through generous financial support from an anonymous alumnus and industry partners, Dr. Sam Cho who developed an initial High Performance Computing course, and the University’s HPC staff and Information Systems group.
Programming Team
The department has a history of sponsoring one or more teams to compete in a regional programming competition. Students work together in teams of three to solve a set of challenging programming problems in a fixed time period, with the winner chosen based on the number of problems solved and the time to solve the problems. During weekly practice sessions on-campus, students are introduced to algorithms applicable to common types of problems, approaches for ensuring scalability of their solutions, and nuances of the programming languages they will use. Students of any skill level beyond the first introductory CS course are invited to participate.