Computer Science Club
Welcome to the Gavilan College Computer Science Club Page!
The purpose of our club is to help you excel beyond the classroom. The club will help you:
- Network, learn from each other, be a part of a team, and create software together.
- Improve your computer and soft/people skills.
- Learn about and use new technologies.
- Attend and organize Hackathons and Game/App Development events.
- Go on tours (IBM, Computer History Museum, Western Digital, and more) and speak with potential employers that will help your career, and attain six figure salaries within the field of Computer Science!
- Win scholarships: Two out of the three GCFA 2017 Scholarships were awarded to our CS Club Members.
- Win at competitions: Over $1400 were won in awards at local Hackathons during 2017.
- Organize events:
- Spring 2018 Hackday at Gavilan - awarded over $1200 to participanting High/Middles School Students.
- 2017, 2018, 2019 CyberSecurity Summer Camps helped make our local community more secure.
- Make money: 11 CS Club students earned between $600 to $2500 per week ($46,000 total!) during the Summer'17, '18 and '19 CyberSecurity Camps.
- Read more about our club Here
Workshops
About the Workshops:
- There can be a new topic/workshop every meeting.
- There are several projects (arduino, vr, club page, node.js, smart mirror, pizza or no pizza app), which you can help put together, or come up with your own!!
Past Workshops
- 11/10/2016: UNIX commands , LINUX presentation , bash presentation
- 11/17/2016: GitHub
- 12/08/2016: SQL/PHP...we will be using sqlfiddle
- 04/20/2017: Reverse Engineer (Assembly) a Nintendo GameBoy Game.
- 10/14/2017: GitHub
- 04/10/2018: Agile (IBM Guest Speaker, David Parker)
- 04/17/2018: Setup Node.js and MEAN stack
- Spring/Fall 2019: Setup Django, did Arduino work.
Campus Events
Gavilan Youth Cyber Camp 2019 Participants:
Club Day, Spring 2019:
Fundraiser Spring 2019:
Science Day, March 2019:
CyberPatriot Summer Camp 2018:
AlliumHacks Hackday, Spring 2018:
CyberPatriot Summer Camp 2017:
Club Fundraiser, March 2017:
Club Day, Fall 2016:
Competitions, Game Jams, Hackathons
Global Game Jam @ UCSC , January 2020:
CSUMB Fall 2019 Startup Hackathon (Presentation):
Bay Area Regionals, Spring 2019 (GECA Team trained and lead by our Marisol Arredondo ):
Gavilan CS Club @ Stanford Blockchain Hackathon, Fall 2018:
Gavilan CS Club @ SiliconHacks, Fremont, May 2017
HerHacks, Salinas, April 2017:
CSUMB Hackathon Monterey, November 2016:
Projects:
Christian Sumares STEM Summer 2019 Computer Science Internship.
Christian Sumares 3D FPS Time Lapse and Senior GECA Project, Spring 2018:
CS Club Silicon Hacks Group Project, Heart Rate App, May 2017
Jeron Wong Silicon Hacks Solo Project ( Winner $250), May 2017
A $1200 drone that our CS Club President (Jeron Wong) won at a Hackathon:
Club Meetings:
Officers
Jose Velasco - Club President 2020 - Present
Joseph Carey - Club VP 2020 - Present
Former members:
Anthony Mendoza - Club President 2019-2020
Marisol Arredondo - Club Treasurer
Heidy Togliatti - Club President (2018 - 2019) - Transfered to CSUMB, Fall 2019
Jeron Wong - Club President (2017-2018) - Transferred to UIUC, Fall 2018
Daniel Chavez - Club Vice Pesident (2017-2018) - Transfered to Berkeley, Fall 2018
Chris Estes - Club Project Manager - Transferred to CSUMB
Isais Zaldivar - Club Secretary - Transferred to CSUMB
Jesus Salas - Club VP - Transferred to CSUMB, Fall 2017
Alexandria Davis - Club Web Content Manager - Transferred to CSUMB
Marques Reimann and Jonathan Rinfret
Co-Founders and First 2 Presidents (2016-2017).
Transfarred to UCSC & CSUMB, Fall 2017
Rebecca Kinman - ASGC VP of Technology