NU ACM Student Chapter

About Us

Who we are?

NU ACM Student Chapter and NU ACM-W Student Chapter - are the Kazakhstani branches of the international ACM organization (Association for Computing Machinery).
Our common goal is to develop a competitive and high-skilled youth ready to push the Kazakhstani IT industry forward. We aspire to live in the world, where computing technologies help us in solving the problems of tomorrow, where we use our knowledge and apply our skills to make a positive impact.
Since Autumn 2017, our organizations have shown great professionalism in the organization of the events on the university, city, and republican level.

Our main event is <HackNU> international hackathon. More info can be found at the website.

2x awarded for the best club at Nazarbayev University

- Technical Club of 2018!
- the Academic Club of 2019!

Two more reasons why you should love us

- Contributing to Gender Equality in Kazakhstani STEM sphere
- Partnering with International Companies (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, EPAM)

our objectives

Sig

ACM's SIGs - Special Interest Groups - are the communities that develop together in special technical areas. We have different SIGs, such as Base, ICPC, CyberSecurity, Machine Learning, Web development, Game Development, Mobile development.

Networking

Opportunity to meet guest speakers, employees of leading world companies like Google, Facebook, and Bloomberg, and professors of top universities around the globe

Tech-Talks

NU ACM Student chapter often organizes guest lectures with IT specialists from international companies, such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and local companies.

WorkShops

NU ACM Student Chapter is hosting workshops such as "Design Thinking & Collaborative Problem-Solving Workshop" with professor Widom, "Crush Your Coding Workshop" with Facebook engineers.

COMMUNITY

The NU ACM Student Chapter is a community of ambitious developers working together towards a common goal. In our society, in addition to valuable knowledge and special experience in programming, you will become a part of a very supportive and close-knit team.

hackathons

Coding marathons where participants solve real-life problems provided by top worldwide and Kazakhstani companies. The participation in Hackathon, which is absolutely free, paves the way of students for the future work at the sponsor companies.

500+

Subscribers

7+

International Workshops

20+

National Workshops

2x

Times Best Club

our events 2019-2020

Microsoft Digigirlz

June 1-2, 2019

Leetcode Marathon

August 29 - September 12, 2019

3.5 day Big Data Course from prof. Widom

Septmber 4-8, 2019
Professor Widom is a dean of Engineering at Stanford who visited our university as part of her Instructional Odyssey program. She also held the workshop on Design Thinking and the Roundtable for females.
Photos from the event.

Internships Abroad

September 13, 2019
Speakers:
- Aishabibi Adambek, 4th year student, twice Google intern: STEP Intern in 2018 and SWE Intern in 2019.
- Akezhan Mussa, 3rd year student, had a research internship in Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore.

Workshop: Data Structures and Algorithms in Practice

September 15, 2019
Speaker: Daneker Nurgaliyeva, 3rd year Computer Science student.

Workshop: Dynamic Programming in Practice

September 22, 2019
Speaker: Danel Batyrbek, 2nd year Computer Science student.

Talks: Females in Kazakhstani IT. Real Talk

September 25, 2019
Speakers: Adilyam Tilegen and Yenlik Bokina, members of the founding team of programming school "Alem".

Technical Interview Demonstration Session

October 4, 2019
Speakers: Carla Hyenne and Todd Davies, software engineers at Google Munich.

Crush Your Coding Interview

October 8, 2019
Speakers: Lucas Moscowicz and Mike Berman, software engineers from Facebook London.
Photos from the event.

Coding Marathon for Females

October 13, 2019

Way for Scholarships: Girls' Opportunities

October 14, 2019
Speaker: Aishabibi Adambek, 4th year student, winner of Google Women Techmakers, McKinsey NGWL Award, GHC attendee.

Junior Talks

October 21, 2019
Speakers: Saadat Nursultan, Saddam Asmatullayev, Almas Kylysh Maksotov, Daulet Issatayev, 3rd year Computer Science Students.
Photos from the event.

GameDev Talk by Sergey Lopatin

October 24, 2019

ICPC Competition

October 26, 2019

MobDev Talk by Temirlan Kuntubayev

November 7, 2019

Local Hack Day

December 2, 2019
Photos from the event.

Hour of Code

December 8, 2019
Photos from the event.

Opportunities in Open Source

January 30, 2020
Speakers:
- Assiya Khuzyakhmetova, 4th year student, intern at Mozilla (Outreachy), Blackrock, Bloomberg.
- Demezhan Marikov, 3rd year student, participant of Google Summer of Code 2019.

Academic Leave Talk

February 11, 2020
Speakers:
⁃ Alexey Muryshkin, 4th year student, intern at Yandex Navigator (Moscow) and took part in the launch of new car sharing service "Anytime Prime"
⁃ Saken Mukanov, 2nd year student, student at UNIT factory and founding team member of Alem programming school.
⁃ Assiya Khuzyakhmetova, 4th year student, intern at Mozilla, Blackrock, and Bloomberg.
⁃ Aidarbek Suleimenov, 4th year student, SRE Google Intern and three times Bloomberg Intern.

HashCode Hub

February 20, 2020

Workshop on React

February 24, 2020
Workshop was given by Daniel Buchele and Mike Berman, front end engineers at Facebook London.
Photos from the event.

Quiz Night

February 25, 2020
Speakers: Ayan Ginet and Daneker Nurgaliyeva, 3rd year Computer Science students who helped freshmen prepare for quiz on CSCI 152 course.

codeW: Republican Coding Competition

March 7, 2020
Photos from the event.

5 workshops for codeW participants

List of the workshops:
1. Crush Your Coding Interview
Mike Berman and Aidana Serikova
2. Intro to Algorithms and Data Structures
Assiya Khuzyakhmetova and Madina Bektayeva
3. Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures
Askhat Temir
4. Linked Lists
Ayan Ginet
5. Algorithmic Thinking
Daulet Issatayev