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Meet the 2014 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars
September 5, 2014
With 2015 scholarship applications opening soon, our Google Scholarships team would like to introduce this year’s Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars and share some of the positive impact they are making in their communities.
It all started when
Dr. Anita Borg
attended a technology conference and noticed the small number of women present. After talking with these women, Dr. Borg formed an online community called
Systers
to help technical women connect with one another. Later, she started the Institute for Women and Technology (now
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
) and co-founded the
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
. For the next X years, Dr. Borg became one of the biggest advocates to dismantle the barriers that keep women and minorities from entering the computing and technology fields.
When Google made the diversity of our workforce
public
this summer, we did it because we believe that the people creating our products and services should be a reflection of the people around the world who use them. That’s also why 10 years ago, we established the
Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship
, awarding scholarships to women who share Dr. Borg’s passion for technology.
Today we’re congratulating the
78 recipients
(PDF) of our 2014 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship in North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa. They join a host of past scholars, many of whom have gone on to become leaders in academia and industry. For example, Floraine Berthouzoz, a 2010 Scholar, co-founded a nonprofit organization called CS KickStart that encourages incoming undergraduate women entering UC Berkeley to pursue computer science through programming labs, exciting presentations, and field trips. Together with restructuring the intro to computer science class at Berkeley, CS KickStart has increased the percentage of women in the Letters & Sciences CS program from 11 percent in 2010 to 21 percent in 2013.
As our scholars continue to pursue their technical careers, they join a community of women who will continue Anita Borg’s important work to promote and support women in computer science. As part of their scholarship (and in addition to receiving a monetary award), all of our Anita Borg scholars participated in one of the annual Google Scholars’ Retreat at Google in Mountain View, Calif. or Zurich. There, they attended tech talks, networked with other scholars and Googlers, participated in developmental activities and sessions, and brainstormed ways to further promote STEM in their communities. Stay tuned to the
Google Student Blog
over the course of the academic year to catch up on what these incredible women accomplish over the year.
We will be launching applications for all
2015 university scholarships
soon, so look out on the
Google Students +Page
for the announcement! For more information on all our scholarships, visit the
Google Scholarships site
.
2014 Anita Borg Scholars’ at the North America Scholars’ Retreat
Posted by Sarah Safir, Student Development Programs
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