Women in Circuits Corner: Women in Circuits Mentoring and Networking Bingo Event at ISSCC 2023 [Society News]

Women in Circuits (WiC) organized a mentoring and networking event that was held at the International Solid-State Conference (ISSCC) 2023 on Sunday evening, participants played multiple rounds of getting-to-know-you bingo to prompt discussion prior an open session. The format developed encourage mingling conversation between engineers attending conference who might otherwise not get talk each other. Attendees were assigned table provided with 3 × matrix input professional personal fun facts about themselves. goal find commonalities other people table, thus sparking shared interests; first person cross row off got bingo! A Python script used automate process shuffling new tables so matched unique set time maximize intermingling. resounding success, more than 130 participants; room packed capacity. Winners from round won IEEE Society (SSCS) swag such as T-shirts, umbrellas, mugs.