Student Organizations
CogSci Student Association (CSSA)
website | Facebook
The UCSD Cognitive Science Student Association is a professional, academic, and social community for students with an interest in the multidisciplinary aspects of Cognitive Science. We hold a variety of events to deliver academic opportunities, help students discover the qualifications that Cognitive Science offers to the professional world, and build a social network for future career and educational development.
Design Co.
website | Facebook
Design Co is a pre-professional student organization at UC San Diego that bridges the gap between designers and industry. Our mission is to cultivate a space that fosters opportunity and growth as an inclusive community of designers.
By combining workshops, events, and other career growth opportunities, we’re taking the challenges of breaking into industry head on and building a strong design community while we're at it. And yes, it includes you too.
Design for America (DFA)
website | Facebook
Design for America is a student organization dedicated to using human-centered design for local social innovation. Students work in interdisciplinary project teams focused on designing a solution for a specific problem within a broader social issue. Members of DFA go out into the community to interview potential users and stakeholders, have energetic brainstorm sessions, prototype to bring ideas to life, gain more empathy for others, and feel more connected to their local community.
NeuroTech at UC San Diego
website | Facebook | Discord Server
Here at NeuroTech at UCSD, we focus on diving into the many topics needed to advance the technologies that allow us to learn about and interface with our brains.
We host workshops+projects to help those interested get into the field, invite guests from industry and research to provide networking opportunities, and foster a community that values learning and helping each other grow.
If you're interested in brains, cognition, engineering, and data science, you'll fit right in!