For the outstanding female engineers-in-the-making out there, here is a snippet from the website for the Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2007:
Through the scholarship, we aim to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, and become active role models and leaders.
Scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of candidates’ academic background and engagement within the technology community. A group of female BSc, MSc, and PhD student finalists will be chosen from the applicant pool. The scholarship recipients, selected from the finalists, will each receive a €5,000 (or equivalent) scholarship for the 2007/2008 academic year.
In May 2007, all finalists will be invited to visit Google’s European Engineering centre in Zurich for a networking retreat. It will include workshops with a series of speakers, breakout sessions and social activities, and will provide an opportunity for all finalists to meet and share their experiences.
Application form opens next Sunday, 1st of October. More details here.
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[...] Original post by ana for Scholarship News [...]
[...] However, in the “tech proffesional” world you can hardly see a woman. At the University I saw almost no girls in Computer Science Faculty. I don’t know the reason, but I can guess it’s still a question about social roles (boys plays with computers, girls with dolls). Anyway I know things are changing since last 5 years, and now girls are more likely to enter in technical studies. Even Google is supporting girls with special grants (read in Ana’s blog). I hope seeing more and more women in tech positions… I want to see a new algorithm made by a girl… I want to fall in love with one of them (”damny dangerous”, but it’s worth it ;-)). [...]
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