ABOUT US

CSESoc is the official representative body of computing students at UNSW. We are one of the largest and most active societies at UNSW, and the largest computing society in the southern hemisphere. CSESoc comprises over 16k members spanning across various degrees including Computer Science, Software Engineering, Bioinformatics and Computer Engineering. We are here to fulfil the social, personal and professional needs of CSE students, and promote computing through a variety of forms.

We are a society for the students, by the students. Here’s an overview of what we do:

• Run weekly social and educational events, including trivia, movie, boardgames nights, LAN parties, workshops, coding competitions, tech talks, and our famous free weekly BBQ
• Create original media content, including Podcasts, articles, YouTube videos, and live streams
• Run a highly successful First Year Camp and Peer Mentoring program, offering new CSE students (both undergraduate and postgraduate) a chance to meet and mingle with other newcomers
• Engage students with industry sponsors and representatives to develop their professional capacity and curiosity
• Develop our own open-source projects for students to get learn new skills and develop tools for our community
• Facilitate an online community of ~8k Discord users, ~9.5k Facebook followers, ~1.9k YouTube subs, and ~7.7k Instagram followers