RSOs
UIUC
Women in STEM
Grainger
100
This is UIUC's largest and oldest STEM sorority!
They gave you free cookies
Alpha Omega Epsilon!
100
This is the name of this field.
Morrow plots
100
She is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry)
Marie Curie
100
This dude's name
Grainger Bob
200
This RSO hosts the Code Ada hackathon in the fall.
WCS
200
This Main Quad building used to have a swimming pool.
English
200
This English mathematician wrote the world's first machine algorithm in the 1840s, earning her the title of the world's first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace
200
Hal 9000 from this Kubrick film was born at UIUC; Siebel CS has a plaque in its honor.
2001: A Space Odyssey
300
They are NOT an RSO, but they host events including a 2-day freshman orientation and put our event in their newsletter.
Women in Engineering (WiE)
300
There are (definitely true) rumors of this fast food brand having a location under Altgeld
Dairy Queen
300
Famous for "Photo 51," her X-ray diffraction images were essential to unraveling the double-helix structure of DNA.
Rosalind Franklin
300
Who is this diva?
Quinn (The quintessential Engineer)
400
This is the number of forms you have to fill out to become an official member of WCS
Zero!
400
This fruit sits on top of Foellinger.
A pineapple
400
While co-inventing a frequency-hopping communication system during WWII to prevent radio-guided torpedoes from being jammed, this inventor was simultaneously one of Hollywood's biggest screen stars.
Hedy Lamarr
400
This is the number of majors that Grainger offers.
19
500
Anna and Allie are Alpha Omega Epsilon's [this] chairs.
Engineering Outreach
500
Who was this?
Pinto Bean
(Campus' celebrity squirrel)
500
In 1983, this scientist became the first sole woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of "jumping genes" (transposons) in corn.
Barbara McClintock
500
This is the year the first woman graduated from Grainger (within 5 years is fine)
1879
(1874-1884 accepted)