MCSS KNOW YOUR SOCIETY
What does MCSS stand for?
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Society
A dataset contains 4, 6, 8, 10, 12. This measure of central tendency sits exactly in the middle. Give both the measure and its value.
What is the median, 8?
The first event explicitly branded as DeerHacks took place in this year.
2022
Hungry between classes? This campus building houses both the Blind Duck and the offices of the UTMSU.
What is the Student Centre?
This UTM building is named after a former mayor of Mississauga who served the city for 36 years.
What is the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre?
Name one type of support MCSS explicitly aims to provide students.
Academic, social OR career-related support
A fair six-sided die is rolled twice. This is the probability of rolling a 6 both times.
What is 1/36?
DeerHacks 2026 featured a ton of fun workshops and events, but this competition was probably the worst possible choice for hackers stomachs.
What is the Spicy Noodle Challenge?
Students looking for the Math Learning Centre have to find this room in Deerfield Hall.
What is DH 2027?
Despite being separate buildings, these two buildings officially share this exact street address.
Deerfield Hall and Maanjiwe nendamowinan
MCSS represents students studying Mathematics, Statistics, and this third discipline.
Computer Science
An algorithm takes 1 second for 10 inputs, 2 seconds for 20, and 4 seconds for 40. Based on this pattern, identify its likely Big-O complexity.
What is O(n)?
What is the name of our goated MLH coach?
Quinn 💞💞
This UTM building contains 29 classrooms and more than 500 study spaces, yet neither fact appears anywhere in its name.
What is MM?
Students know this building as MN, but its Anishinaabemowin name translates approximately to this English phrase.
What is “gathering of minds”?
Last year, an MCSS event landed the society in some unexpected legal trouble. What was the event called?
What is Lectures on Tap
If P(A) = 0.5, P(B) = 0.4, and A and B are independent, this is P(A ∩ B).
What is 0.20?
Before DeerHacks had its current name, an MCSS hackathon in 2016 was advertised as the bigger successor to the previous years edition of this worldwide hackathon event.
What is Local Hack Day?
This UTM building was designed around an existing White Oak tree, incorporating the tree into the architectural concept rather than simply removing it.
What is Deerfield Hall?
Early Erindale students looking for a drink didn’t have the Blind Duck. Instead, Colman House contained a makeshift student pub with this unfortunate name.
What is Ugly’s?
Who is listed by the MCS department as the faculty member helping oversee MCSS?
Peter Dixon
Computer scientists know there is no general algorithm capable of determining whether every possible program will eventually stop running. This result is known as this problem.
What is the Halting Problem?
Years before the first DeerHacks, MCSS held a 2013 hackathon built around a programming game whose four-part name sounds more like a bizarre food chain than a coding competition.
What is Dog-Cat-Mouse-cheeSe?
This UTM facility allows students to work with VR, 3D printers, recording equipment and other emerging technologies.
What is the Digital Exploration Lab (DEL)?
Name all five buildings/facilities directly connected to the Davis Building according to UTM Facilities.
What are CCT, RAWC, Innovation Complex, Health Sciences Complex, and the Science Building?