Student Groups

Ability is an organization dedicated to spreading accessibility awareness and creating community for students with disabilities and their allies.

Association for Computing Education (ACE) focuses on building a community for students interested in the field of computing education. We provide resources and events to help students connect with TA opportunities, academia, and other computing education communities in the University of Washington.

Computing Community @ the University of Washington is a UW RSO dedicated to building community in the CSE department, and we are the largest student-led organization at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. COM² at the Allen School aims to bring the motivation and spirit of this organization to our school campus through career and academic support, mentorship, and community-building initiatives.

GEN1 aims to celebrate and support the Allen School’s vibrant and diverse first-generation community by providing resources and a community to ensure academic, professional, and personal success.

Minorities in Tech supports underrepresented groups in the tech and industry and works to foster a more culturally inclusive CSE community. They are committed to creating an inclusive multicultural environment where differences are valued and respected.

Q++ is a group at the University of Washington dedicated to providing support and community for LGBTQIA+ individuals within the Allen School community.

The Student Advisory Council serves as a collective voice of students in the Allen School. The Council aims to address key issues in the Allen School including but not limited to: student wellness, diversity, curriculum development, and opportunities to engage in social good.

Women in Computing at the University of Washington is a group of students in the Paul G. Allen School (of all genders and orientations) dedicated to cultivating a strong supportive community of women within the Allen School, to helping members succeed academically, socially and professionally, and to demonstrate the importance and necessity of diversity in the computing world.

ARUW is a competitive robotics team competing in the international RoboMaster competition. Each year, we build a fleet of various robots to battle in an esports-style game by launching plastic projectiles at each other. ARUW has 4 subteams: Business/Admin, Mechanical, Electrical, and Software. Our software team works to develop fast embedded controls, real-time auto-aim and auto-drive, and machine learning computer vision algorithms.

DubHacks is a tech and entrepreneurship non-profit in Seattle run by students at the University of Washington. We bring together students of all backgrounds to tackle the issues they are most passionate about. Let's build tomorrow together.

We are an organization exploring the realm of free and open source software and encouraging their use in daily life. We love to use Linux (distributions), learn something new about it every time we meet, and foster a sense of community among all Linux and FOSS users. join us on discord: https://discord.gg/mhqvbqXwrZ

I2 is an environment which aims to create a community of project-driven, outcome-oriented students at the University of Washington interested in the intersections of reinforcement learning, embodied artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. Our goal is to make machines learn like humans.

Project Indoor Farm hopes to spread awareness to sustainable and modern alternatives to conventional agriculture. Our student-run hydroponics farm harvests over 20 pounds of lettuce every quarter. We hope to give students a way to do hands-on sustainability work while being able to progress their own career development through interdisciplinary projects, such as applying embedded systems to automate farm maintenance and using computer vision to monitor growth rates.

The Software Engineering Career Club at UW (SWECC) is a space for people that want to pursue software engineering (SWE) as a career. Within this space, the club hopes to help develop skills and provide resources that can improve your odds of being successful in your future SWE career. This is done through networking, leetcode, mentor-mentee pairing, presentations, and other activities that will add value to members. You can reach us via discord (https://discord.gg/w9g4pSTy8u) or our email (swecc@uw.edu).

Dedicated to exploring the latest blockchain developments and novel cryptocurrency applications. Collaborate with your peers to learn about investing, trading, and mining cryptocurrencies. Join our discord for more info about meetings, events, etc. : https://discord.gg/NwZtaDAfRX

Here at UWashington Formula Motorsports, we design, build, test and compete with an electric formula-style race car. Everything that our club produces is done entirely in-house. We produce our own designs, perform our own machining and manufacture our own carbon fiber parts. Every year, we bring our finished product to competition!

WOOF3D gives students hands-on experience with manufacturing and digital fabrication technologies—such as CAD, 3D-printing, scanning, CNCing, injection molding—through our community outreach events and/or joining our year-long projects. We welcome both novices and experts! Some of our past projects include experimenting with printers that can print with metals, silicone, and chocolate; designing and building a printer with a 1 cubic meter build volume; and scanning and casting mammoth bones to complete a skeleton at the Burke Museum.