"CiSters is proud to announce that they have awarded three applicants' bursaries to attend the Grace Hopper Conference 2010 in Atlanta Georgia. These applicants are:
Samaneh Sheikh Nia --> CIS Graduate student
Gabriela Henriques --> 4th year Undergraduate student
Laura Lamanna --> 4th year Undergraduate student
Thanks to all those who applied."
CiSters is proud to announce that we have obtained some funding to provide travel bursaries for this years Grace Hopper Conference that is taking place September 28-29 in Atlanta, GA. We would like to invite those who are interested in attending the conference to fill out the application to apply for these bursaries. As mentioned previously, those who have already applied for the Grace Hopper Scholarship will be given preference, however, you can still apply and be considered if you missed that deadline. We also request that if you have completed the essay question on the GHC conference website to please send us a copy of it so we have it for our records. Once we have received your application, a committee of three people will then decide how the bursaries will be distributed to the applicants. The deadline to apply for the CiSter's bursaries will be July 16th 2010. If you have any questions please contact Megan Nazareth at cistersbursaries@gmail.com.
This year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will be held September 28th-October 2nd in Atlanta Georgia. If you are interested in attending please consider applying for a scholarship The deadline for submission is May 14th.
CiSters will also hopefully be offering scholarships and will give preference to students who have already applied for scholarships at the above link.