LIFE IN TECH
The event is a tribute to celebrate technical expertise and fearless vision of Dr Anita Borg to inspire, motivate, and move women.
14*th of November, 2018, I was sitting at Asias largest gathering of women in technology, the Grace Hopper Celebration India(GHCI) 2018. Once in a lifetime experience it was.* So, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy learning about the scholarship application process and the hacks to have a better selection chance.
GHCI is produced by AnitaB.org and presented in partnership with ACM India every year. With more than 60 sponsors and over 411 organisations, GHCI-18 was aiming to create a high impact to achieve mission 5050 till 2025.
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The event is a tribute to celebrate technical expertise and fearless vision of Dr Anita Borg to inspire, motivate, and move women to embrace in the field technology. She was a true role model for women, dreaming to excel in the realm of technology. I was fortunate enough to get a full scholarship to the three-day event consisting of technical talks, keynotes, poster presentation, huge opportunity to build a strong professional network and enormous career opportunities.
More information about GHCI-18 can be found in an amazing article by my beloved friend afreen.
Now as Grace Hopper Celebration India(GHCI)-2019 is around the corner, there have been a plethora of questions buzzing about scholarship application from almost everyone, who is interested to apply for same. GHCI-19 will be held at Bangalore from November 6 to 8, 2019. It is a lifetime opportunity for women students to start a great career in technology.
GHCI-18 Career Fair (src: https://anitab.org/)
Scholarship:
GHCI 19 Student Scholarships will be awarded to deserving women students from computing, engineering and IT backgrounds.
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Why get involved:
Well, the Grace Hopper Celebration celebrates womanhood and it intends to strengthen the place of women in technology. It provides with a tremendous amount of opportunities to network with many like-minded people from various organisations. It helps create a strong professional network. If you are a student, you might get a lot of internship and job opportunities through emails and spot interviews. The conference focuses mostly on computing but there are also opportunities for other branches. There are many examples of circuit branch people getting placed through the career fair. So, no matter where are you from and what you do, the celebration is just a good fit for you.
Criteria:
The applicant should be an undergraduate student who is enrolled and in the final year of their degree course during the month of November 2019 or a postgraduate student pursuing Masters in computing or a technical area or a PhD student in computing or a technical area. Students who graduate before November 2019 are not eligible.
Benefits:
The Scholarship gives the recipient the opportunity to attend the GHCI conference and includes the full conference registration fee and meals. For outstation students, who do not reside in Bangalore, travel (by train/bus/air) will be reimbursed up to a maximum of Rs. 2,250 and accommodation arrangements will also be made during GHCI 19.
Scholarship recipients get access to Career Fair (for women in technology only). Students can explore internships as well as full-time job opportunities with global technology organizations.
Scholarship recipients can submit their resume to the GHCI 19 Resume Database, that is viewed by the GHCI 19 Sponsor organizations. The GHCI 19 Resume Database will open post-August 2019. (Visit GHCIndia.AnitaB.org for further updates.)
Application Form:
The first part of the application consists of basic personal information which needs to be provided.
The second part includes the statement of purpose. As I have mentioned in my earlier articles, Your write-up is the face of your whole life which you have to summarize in just 100 words. (This is no joke). So mention briefly the personal and social benefits that you are going to get from the conference. Also, try to add on some of your personal experience which inspired you to get into such an event.
The second question is about your technical skill which might play a very important role in your selection process. Make sure to give all your relevant contributions along with their link to the codebase or hosted URL. Try to categorize the technical fields for convenience. (exp. keep Web Development track different from Image Processing). Provide details about any hackathon or competition you participated in or your research work and internship experience. Also, make sure to mention your volunteering experience or provide a link to your blog profile_(if any)._ This might create a greater impact on the reviewer as it throws light upon your community involvement and your urge to help other people in your community.
The video testimonial is optional but it might play the trick. Here is your one chance to create an impression by giving a better introduction to your personality and what makes you so very interested in technology. Link your real-life experience to your explanation and trust me its gonna be so lively and heart touching. So make sure to make a handful use of this option and give a brief but strong motive to the reviewer. You can use platforms like YouTube or Dropbox for the same. Dont be shy, its just a video.
Your proof of student status might be a photo/scanned copy of your valid Student ID, clearly showing your name, academic institution and photograph.
There is a provision of giving 1- 2 recommendations of any faculty of your choice. Providing with 2 recommendations is ideally suggested.
So, here you go with the Scholarship application. The conference helped me in many ways and I met some extremely talented individuals and friends who are very close to my heart now. Apart from this, the conference landed me with an opportunity with my dream company. Well, we will talk about that part in a later article. Till then, the deadline to submit your scholarship application is June 21, 2019. So, hurry up girls!!!
All the best :-)
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