2015 Grace Hopper Celebration Travel Funding

2015 Grace Hopper Celebration Travel Funding

Application Deadline: June 8, 5pm

This year's Grace Hopper Celebration is from October 14-16 in Houston, Texas.

Department Grants:

• We are awarding three $1000 travel grants to cover hotel, registration, food, and/or transportation costs.
• Recipients must be female CS students who will be juniors, seniors, MS, or PhD students in Fall 2015.
• Recipients are expected to help represent and promote CS @ ILLINOIS at the conference, spending an hour per day at the department's booth.

Yahoo! Scholarships:

• Two $1000 scholarships to cover hotel, registration, food, and/or transportation costs.
• Recipients must be female CS students who will be juniors, seniors, MS, or PhD students in Fall 2015.

Cisco Scholarship:

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/)

June 2 - Conference registration opens.
June 22 - Super early bird registration rates end.
July 31 - Early bird registration rates end.
Sept 25 - Registration closes.

Notes:
1) Students are responsible for their own hotel accommodations.
2) 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.

If interested, please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5 pm on June 8 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.
5) For Cisco only: in 1-2 paragraphs, please briefly describe your participation in WCS.

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).