Student Activities

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• Chloe Gjoka (Chair | Fall 2022): cgjoka@vassar.edu
  
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• Jason Han (Vice Chair): jjhan@vassar.edu
  
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• Sarah Valencia (Communications Director): svalencia@vassar.edu
  
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• Alex Moyse (Events Manager): amoyse@vassar.edu
  
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• Abigail Kotar (Asst. Events Manager): akotare@vassar.edu
  
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Name: Chloe Gjoka (she/her)
Class year: 2023
Where I’m from: Yonkers, NY/ Durres, Albania
Major/ correlates: Computer Science
Something people might not know about me: I'm currently caring for 8 beautiful plants on campus
What common programming mistake are you?: Changing a function and not updating the rest of my code to match
Favorite thing about CS: Spending hours on code and finally making it work!!

Name: Jason Han (he/him)
Class year: 2023
Where I’m from: Jersey City, NJ
Major/ correlates: Computer Science and Math
Something people might not know about me: I love playing tennis (casually at least)
What common programming mistake are you?: Jumping straight into coding without planning first
Favorite thing about CS: When you write a program that just works on the first try

Name: Sarah Valencia (she/her)
Class year: 2024
Where I’m from:San Diego, CA
Majors/ correlates: Computer Science and Economics, with hopes for a correlate in mathematics.
Something people might not know about me: I played competitive softball for 10 years.
What common programming mistake are you?: Typos. I try to type as fast as my brain thinks and that has led to many spelling errors.
Favorite thing about CS: Finishing an assignment that was really hard. It is one of the most rewarding feelings.

Name: Alex Moyse (he/him)
Class year: 2023
Where I’m from: Montclair, NJ
Majors/ correlates: Computer Science and Math
Something people might not know about me: I love a good keyboard.
What common programming mistake are you?: I still don't know what git is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
Favorite thing about CS: The keyboards!

Name: Abigail Kotar (she/her)
Class year: 2023
Where I’m from: Millington, NJ
Majors/ correlates: Computer Science and Math
Something people might not know about me: I'm a co-captain for our Quidditch team the Butterbeer Broooers!
What common programming mistake are you?: Forgetting a semi-colon :(
Favorite thing about CS: The problem solving aspect! I enjoy breaking down problems into smaller problems to solve.

VC++ is Vassar’s only computer science centered org. Our goal is to build a strong computer science community on campus. This year we’re working on creating a student-run makerspace, setting up an interview prep & study group, and running multiple workshops.
Contact Jason Han (jjhan@vassar.edu) and John Lim (tlim@vassar.edu) for more information.