2017 Tapia Conference Scholarship

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Last updated: Mar 27, 2017

Deadline: June 1.

CS @ ILLINOIS is providing three $1,000 travel awards for graduate students to attend the 2017 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, September 20-23, in Atlanta, Georgia. 

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.

Travel Award Eligibility:

  • Recipients must be enrolled as a MS or PhD student in Fall 2017.
  • Preference for students from underrepresented demographics in computer science.
  • Recipients are expected to help represent and promote CS @ ILLINOIS at the conference, spending at least two hours per day at the department's booth.

Please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5 pm on June 1 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2252 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).

About the Conference:

The Tapia conference has always been a premier venue to acknowledge, to promote and to celebrate diversity in computing. The goal of the Tapia Conferences is to bring together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities to:

  • Celebrate the diversity that exists in computing;
  • Connect with others with common backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, and gender so as to create communities that extend beyond the conference;
  • Obtain advice from and make contacts with computing leaders in academia and industry;
  • Be inspired by great presentations and conversations with leaders with common backgrounds.