2016 Grace Hopper Celebration Travel Funding

Application Deadline: July 11, 5pm

This year's Grace Hopper Celebration is from October 19-21 in Houston, Texas.

Department Grants:

We are awarding three $1000 travel grants to cover hotel, registration, food, and/or transportation costs.
- Funding will be disbursed in the form of a reimbursement after the conference. Recipients will need to make many purchases before the conference, save receipts, and complete reimbursement paperwork after the conference.
Recipients must be female CS students who will be MS or PhD students in Fall 2016.
Recipients are expected to help represent and promote CS @ ILLINOIS at the conference, spending at least an hour per day at the department's booth.

Department Registrations:

We have five codes for free conference registrations. (Student registration is regularly $350 this year.)
Recipients must be female CS students who will be juniors, seniors, MS, or PhD students in Fall 2016.
Recipients are expected to help represent and promote CS @ ILLINOIS at the conference, spending at least two hours during the conference at the department's booth.

About the Conference:

Co-founded by Dr. Anita Borg and Dr. Telle Whitney in 1994 and inspired by the legacy of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, the Institute's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference is designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. It is the largest technical conference for women in computing and results in collaborative proposals, networking and mentoring for junior women and increased visibility for the contributions of women in computing. Conference presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industry, academia and government. Top researchers present their work while special sessions focus on the role of women in today's technology fields.

Key Conference Dates: (See the official calendar at http://gracehopper.org/calendar/)

July 13 - Conference registration opens.
Oct 19 - Conference start date.

If interested, please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5 pm on June 11 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2233 SC):
1) Your up-to-date CV/resume.
2) A one page statement discussing why you want to attend the conference, and how attending will benefit your education, research, and/or career.
3) If you are presenting at or assisting with the conference, please provide a half page to one page statement summarizing your participation.
4) A short statement indicating whether or not you would be willing to assist in promoting CS @ ILLINOIS at the conference. This would include assisting department staff at the department's career fair table for periods of time.

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files. Please include your netid in the file name(s).