Computing
The programming language named after a British comedy group and known for its readability
What is Python?
This large annual conference, which WISH attends, is the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists
What is the Grace Hopper Celebration?
The hotel in SLO known for its eclectic rooms and cake
What is Madonna Inn?
The name of Cal Poly's beloved Mustang mascot
What is Musty?
The WISH Administrator
Who is Pallavi Das?
The data structure that follows “last in, first out”
What is a stack?
The Rear Admiral and COBOL pioneer who famously found a literal "bug" (a moth) in a Harvard Mark II computer
Who was Grace Hopper?
The talk show host who declared SLO the “Happiest Town in USA”
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
The oldest dorms on campus
What are the Red Bricks?
The WISH team that hosts Build Days biweekly
What is the Tech team?
The type of loop will always execute at least once, even if the condition is false
What is a do-while loop?
The lead software engineer for the Apollo Project who is famously pictured standing next to a stack of code as tall as she is
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
The number of locations Slodoco has
What is 3?
The smoothie company that started out as a Cal Poly senior project
What is Jamba Juice?
The WISH Advisors
Who are Zoe Wood, Sumona Mukhopadyay, and Julie Workman?
The time complexity (Big O) of a binary search on a sorted array of n elements
What is O(log n)?
The NASA mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the first US manned spaceflights
Who was Katherine Johnson?
The highest rated restaurant in SLO on Yelp
What is Novo?
The name of Cal Poly's advisory recommendation that students spend a certain number hours per week studying outside of class
What is the 25–35 rule?
The year WISH was founded
What is 2007?
The sorting algorithm that has an average time complexity of O(n log n) and uses a divide-and-conquer approach
What is merge sort?
The first woman to win the Turing Award (the "Nobel Prize of Computing") in 2006 for her work in compiler optimization
Who was Frances Allen?
The highest ranked cafe in SLO on Yelp
What is Scout Coffee Company?
The previous Cal Poly president who the University Union (UU) is named after
Who is Julian A. McPhee?
The name of a company that sponsors WISH (There are four)
What is
Google/hu.ma.ne/Lockheed Martin/Bluebeam?