Newsletter

What a start to the year it’s been!

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Hi everyone! We wanted to let you know about all the CSS events coming up in the next month - it’s going to be a busy one so here’s a quick rundown: Escape Room 🔐 This Friday at 8pm, put your teamwork and puzzle solving skills to the test at an escape room! Tickets are available at 🔗 https://cssbham.com/escape🔗 Quantum Workshop ⚛️

Hello everyone! We hope you’ve had a great Fresher’s Week and are looking forward to starting all of your modules next week. Firstly, congratulations! Congratulations to all of the new First Years, new Masters students, new PhD students and to all of our returning members coming back after the summer 🎉 CSS has got lots of plans and we’re keen to get every one of you involved in something fun and interesting to you. As ever, the best places to find out about our activities are Discord, Instagram and Facebook. We’d especially recommend joining the Discord to meet new people and chat with all the rest of us CS students.

For the last few years, each has been a record breaker for CSS. 2021 was no different for us, as we broke new records and set new achievements. We have been able to make a return to in person events, and together with the continued success of the Discord server, we have reached an all time high for memberships. CSS has also set a new record of 25 events and activities in the 13 weeks of the first semester.

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It’s been a wild rollercoaster of a year, but the Spring term for CSS has been a great success.

CSS, despite 2020's best efforts, has had an awesome Term 1.

The session recording is now available to watch back.

Always wanted to get involved with CSS? Then why not come along and stand for First Year Rep, PGT Rep, or International rep!

Learn, Build And Share Your Amazing Ideas In A Welcoming Community

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Happy Pride Month from all of us at CSS!

Every year, CSS hosts a summer BBQ.

The EPS Awards Nominations are still open and will close on Friday!

It is fair to say that CSS has had another successful year. In September 2019, the School welcomed over 800 new students, and we have now reached almost 300 members - which is an all time high! The Committee has worked hard over the last 14 months to bring over 60 events, from starting our series of Developer Student Club workshops, to our big events like the CSS Ball. We’ve also collaborated with many other societies around campus, including AFNOM, oSTEM, Startup Society and others.

On Wednesday this week, the ballots for the Committee Elections closed as part of our 2020 AGM. The Guild have now sent over to us and we are proud to announce our new committee for the academic year 2020-21.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a lot of disruption worldwide to everybody, CSS included. Usually we would hold our Committee Elections in March as part of our Annual General Meeting. The AGM was planned to take place on Tuesday 17th March 2020. We were aware that due to the impending restrictions which would come, many society members may have already travelled home or would not want to meet at an event. Therefore, we decided to postpone the meeting until such a time we could hold a meeting and election in such a way that it would be fair and inclusive.

Currently, we are holding our elections for next year’s committee as part of our (now online) Annual General Meeting (AGM). The committee’s role within the society is to manage the group and organise all of the events which are run throughout the event - everything from the tech workshops to the big events such as our annual Ball. Committee is also responsible for managing the group’s finances and recruiting new members.

Welcome to the Computer Science Society!

November has been another successful (and busy) month for CSS. We have started Developer Student Clubs - an exciting new project, and brought our largest event of the year so far - the Qiskit Hackathon.

CSS has had a great start to the academic year this year. We’ve held many events and we have welcomed many new members to the society, as well as many returning members.

Welcome to all of the new members and returning members

Congratulations on your place to study at the University of Birmingham - we look foward to seeing you all in September!

The new website is finally, finally here!