All about UACS
We are the Undergraduate Association of Computing Science. Most of the time you can find us wasting valuable time in our office: CSC-140. Our native mode of communication is email: uacs@uacs.ca.
The Executive for 2016-2017 is:
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Lexie Bartlett President president@uacs.ca |
Carson Mclean VP Finance vpfinance@uacs.ca |
Thomas Curnow VP Administration secretary@uacs.ca |
Preyanshu Kumar VP External vpexternal@uacs.ca |
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Amy Mallon VP Publicity vppublicity@uacs.ca |
Soroush Samavat VP Social vpsocial@uacs.ca |
Jordan Vogel VP Sports vpsports@uacs.ca |
Mandy Meindersma VP Internal vpinternal@uacs.ca |
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Dylan Cassidy Senior Representative fourthyear@uacs.ca |
Chris Saunders Junior Representative firstyear@uacs.ca |
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Disclosure
UACS has weekly executive meetings, and publishes the minutes from these meetings, along with other pertinent documents, on the disclosure page.
UACS History
UACS was formed in 1977 as a general interest computing club. It became a society in 1978 as the University of Alberta Computing Society. Today UACS is the official voice of the computing science undergraduate community. Our constitution can be found here.With all the fun things that go on within UACS, you might be surprised to know that we also fulfil a more serious role. UACS acts as a liaison for both the Department of Computing Science and the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS). Through these relationships, UACS is able to offer a wealth of services that include:
- Sponsoring career oriented seminars
- Holding forums on academic issues
- Hosting guest speakers from both faculty and industry
- Terminal Bash - Take out your assignments on a bunch of old machines with the UACS brand sledgehammer.
- Car Rally - A mad dash following madder clues for made up points. There's prizes and a party after. Woot!
- Buck 'O Burger Barbecue - The Vision of the Late Great VP Steve UACS takes a bath so you can eat good.
- Local Programming Contest - Flex that brain bone to try solve as many problems as you can.