This event is a gathering designed to celebrate the Lantern Festival (Yuan Xiao Jie), while also serving as a conclusion to the Lunar New Year season. The event aims to create a low-stress environment for creative expression and cultural exchange, facilitating community while promoting cultural appreciation. The main activity will be paper crafts of varying difficulties: 1. Easy: Paper Cutting 2. Medium: Paper Lanterns 3. Challenge: Lotus Flowers

In this workshop, you’ll learn the history and core ideas behind recommender systems, what they are, how they work, and how to build one yourself from the ground up🛠️. We’ll cover a range of approaches, from collaborative filtering to ranking models and data-mining techniques ⛏️, so you can see how real-world recommenders make decisions. Then we’ll switch from theory to hands-on: you’ll take part in an interactive activity where you’ll build and experiment with your own recommender model 🎯⚙️. Come ready to learn, tinker, and leave with something you can keep improving after the workshop 🚀🎉.

ACM Hack is hosting Foundations of Front-end Engineering: Responsive Web Design. We’ll be covering CSS flexbox, grid, media queries, and other ways to make your websites look good on all devices. No prior experience is required for this workshop! Come through if you’re interested in learning more about front-end development!

Let’s Get Relational: SQL & Database Design is a beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop designed to demystify how real databases work. Whether you're curious about how apps store data or want to sharpen your technical toolkit, this session will walk you through the foundations of relational thinking—how tables connect, how schemas are designed, and how SQL queries process data. You’ll learn to build your own tables, design clean relationships using primary and foreign keys, and practice essential SQL commands like SELECT, JOIN, and GROUP BY through interactive exercises (including a fun mini-mystery to solve!).

Come join us for an AI field day! Enjoy the sunset, snacks, and good vibes! 🌅🧺

Learn diffusion models with ACM’s Project Director Alan Mayer! ✨ We’ll start with a big-picture, intuition-first overview. Then, dive into the nitty-gritty that makes diffusion so powerful🔥(noise, denoising, sampling, and all the magic in between). Along the way, you’ll get hands-on with Alan’s interactive code tutorial and watch the concepts click with visuals from the slides📊. Bring your curiosity, a laptop if you can, and come ready to learn and vibe with us. And of course: free food 🍕. See you there! 🎉

Come play badminton with ACM!! No experience needed, come out, take a break from classes, and have fun :)

Join ACM and Design Co for a cozy social where you craft paper flowers and connect with fellow designers in a relaxed, creative space!

Ever gotten a gorgeous wireframe or Figma mockup, only to get stuck on how to translate that onto your screen? In Sketch to Site, we'll dive into the tools and tricks used to build from a wireframe diagram all the way to the layout and functionality of a website frontend. We'll cover common frontend topics such as responsive design and accessibility to create a website worthy of your wireframed dreams!

Come chill, unleash your creativity, and make your own clay charms!!

Ever wondered why you forget things right after a midterm 📚, why your attention jumps around when you code 💻✨, or why your brain falls for optical illusions 👀? No background in tech or cogsci required, just curiosity 🔍. Hack Your Brain is a relaxed, welcoming space 🌿 where anyone can come learn something cool about themselves 🤯💡.

Come ice skating with us and enjoy a Somi Somi dessert afterwards!

Support ACM and get a sweet treat at Somisomi! We'll go after ice skating as well. Be sure to show them this flyer!

Learn what makes an effective phishing scheme, so that you can avoid them… obviously! Plus an analysis of digital rights, online privacy, and how to not get phished!

Have you ever been curious about how big tech companies like Netflix, Google, etc. scale up their services to accommodate thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of users? In this workshop, we'll go over the basic technologies of system design, and techniques that we can use to maintain consistency and speed in a large distributed system.

So you've written a web application or backend, but how do you scale your app for millions of users? The Dive into Docker Workshop will be covering the essentials of Docker - a core technology used by backend engineers daily for containerizing and scaling your applications. It’s the foundation of cloud deployment, microservices, and high-scale distributed systems used by top tech companies every day. We will walk through Docker set up, initialization, and a simple hands on application to introduce Docker to beginners.

Curious how agents learn to play games, control robots, or make decisions from trial and error? Come join ACM AI for an Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (RL) — no prior RL experience needed! In this workshop, we’ll walk through: 🧠 What reinforcement learning is 🎯 The core ideas: agents, environments, states, actions, rewards 🎮 Classic RL examples (like game-playing agents) 📊 How RL fits into the bigger AI/ML picture We’ll break things down in a beginner-friendly, intuitive way, with diagrams, examples, and time for questions — perfect if you’ve heard of RL but never quite knew how it works. Whether you’re into robotics, games, or just curious about how machines can learn from feedback, this is a great place to start your RL journey 🚀

Curious how agents learn to play games, control robots, or make decisions from trial and error? Come join ACM AI for an Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (RL) — no prior RL experience needed! In this workshop, we’ll walk through: 🧠 What reinforcement learning is 🎯 The core ideas: agents, environments, states, actions, rewards 🎮 Classic RL examples (like game-playing agents) 📊 How RL fits into the bigger AI/ML picture We’ll break things down in a beginner-friendly, intuitive way, with diagrams, examples, and time for questions — perfect if you’ve heard of RL but never quite knew how it works. Whether you’re into robotics, games, or just curious about how machines can learn from feedback, this is a great place to start your RL journey 🚀

Look, we don't even want to know what kind of things you're doing online, but thanks to Transport Layer Security, we can't! So, join ACM Cyber for a deep dive beyond the padlock in your browser into how TLS works and...how it doesn't. We'll walk you through setting up encrypted comms with OpenSSL, so bring your laptop!

Projects kickoff will provide accepted projects applicants an opportunity to meet the other accepted applicants in person and learn about expectations and opportunities in the Projects program.

ACM UCSD x SDSU cafe collab! 🤝 We will be hanging out @Mosa Tea in Convoy, trying their drinks 🧋, and playing board games 🎲. Make sure to have your student ID and the e-flyer pulled up on your phone for a 10% discount! 💸

Come take a break from schoolwork and spend a relaxed evening with ACM AI at our Board Game Night. We will have a variety of board games available, ranging from strategy games to light party games, so everyone can find something they enjoy. This event is meant to be a low-pressure space to socialize, meet other ACM AI members, and unwind after classes. Free food and snacks will be provided. If you’re looking to connect with new people, hang out with friends, or just de-stress for a bit, we’d love to see you there.

Join ACM's Graphic Designers and Figma at UCSD for a hands-on workshop exploring how to use Figma for graphic design! Learn essential tools, creative workflows, and tips to bring your design ideas to life whether you're making posters, social posts, or brand assets.

Join us for either bracelet making or trivia or poker (will determine in hte next week or so)

Join ACM for an exclusive Alumni Panel on how to get an internship! Learn insider tips and strategies from successful alumni who’ve landed coveted internships at top companies. This dynamic session will equip you with the tools and confidence to secure your dream internship. Don’t miss this chance to network, gain valuable insights, and jumpstart your career!