THE WEEKLY BYTE 👾 (Week 3) (Mon, 24 Aug – Sun, 30 Aug)
We've made it to Week 3! 🎉 By now the semester rhythm is probably kicking in — readings piling up, first tutorials done, maybe a deadline or two on the horizon. Remember to pace yourself, and don't forget to carve out time for the things (and people!) that energise you. We've got a great lineup of events this week, so take a look below! 💜✨
✨ WiT Events
HERizon
Introducing HERizon — a low-pressure space for Year 1 and 2 female SoC students to explore tech, no experience needed! 💜 Work in pairs across 5 sessions to build, research, design, or create — your way — and walk away with new friends and a portfolio to show for it.
🗓️ : Odd weeks Wednesdays starting from Week 3
⏰ : 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
✨ Internal Events
SoCLaaS (SoC LLM-as-a-Service) Hands-On Workshop
Looking to build AI assistant agents, develop smart applications, or integrate LLMs into your projects and coursework? Join this 60-minute hands-on workshop over Zoom to learn about SoCLaaS — SoC's local LLM infrastructure offering free-of-charge, open-weight LLM API access for all SoC users. We'll walk you through ready-to-use scripts and integration methods, so you can run and test the APIs in real-time alongside us!
🗓: 26 Aug Wed
⏰: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
🔗: Zoom Link
Goldman Sachs Engineering Academy - On campus Recruitment Talk
Interested in engineering and technology in the financial industry? Join Goldman Sachs to meet Engineering professionals, discover the firm’s latest innovations, gain recruitment tips, and take on a coding challenge for a chance at accelerated interviews for the 2027 Singapore Engineering Summer Internship!
🗓: 8 Sep Tue
⏰: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
📍: NUS CFG Career Space
🔗: Register here by 6 Sep
✨ External Events
PwC Career Discovery Day
We are bringing AI to the forefront of our career pathways at our Careers Discovery Day 2026 — explore PwC's AI playground and get an exclusive look at how our teams harness AI to transform the nature of work. Beyond AI, meet the people, explore career opportunities, and gain insights into life at PwC.
🗓: 29 Aug Sat
⏰: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍: 7 Straits View, Marina One East Tower, Level 12, Singapore 018936
🔗: Register here
SingHacks 2026
SingHacks 2026 is back! Join in person in Singapore for a weekend of building, hacking, and competing for $10,000 in prizes! This year's challenges centre around real fintech and payments infrastructure problems, with top teams gaining a share of the prize pool plus direct exposure to the sponsors behind the challenges. Anchor Sponsors: Ripple & Julius Baer. Partners: Mission+, Staple, HeyMax, unlimit & t54.
🗓: 4 Sep Fri - 5 Sep Sat
💰: $10,000 Prize Pool
🔗: Register here
⚡️ Tech Bite
Model Context Protocol (MCP): Giving AI a Standard Way to Reach the Real World
As more of us start experimenting with LLM APIs (hi, SoCLaaS 👀), a big question comes up: how do you actually let an AI model use tools, files, or external services in a consistent way? That's what MCP solves — it's an open standard that lets AI applications connect to data sources and tools through a common protocol, instead of every app building its own custom integration from scratch.
Think of it like a "USB-C port for AI", one standard connector instead of a different cable for everything.
🔍 Tools to explore: Anthropic's MCP documentation, MCP server directory
If you have any events you’d like to publicise in this newsletter, please reach out to @j6s1yn8z.
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