ACM-W October 2015 Newsletter

womENcourage 2015 Celebration of Women in Computing It’s confirmed!  Women Love Tech!  And the participants of ACM-W Europe womENcourage Celebration of Women in Computing deemed that the Celebration was a huge success!   Over 200 participants from 28 countries attended in at an impressive venue, they participated in keynote addresses, panel discussions, technical paper sessions, workshops… […]

Report of All India celebration of Women in Computing All India celebration of women in computing was organized by AESICS, ACM-Women Chapter of Ahmedabad University in association with ACM Ahmedabad during 1st and 3rd October, 2015 under the theme “Entrepreneurship and Career Development in Computer Science and Information Technology”. The inaugural ceremony started with prayer […]

Create and Expand ACM-W Groups on Campus: Call for Proposals (Deadline, 10/30/2015) Applications for the new NCWIT Student Seed Fund (now sponsored by Google.org) will open soon! Any existing ACM-W student chapter or women in computing (WIC) group interested in becoming affiliated with ACM-W is eligible to apply. This year, grants will be awarded in the following […]

The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences. The student does not have to present a paper at the conference to be eligible. Applications are evaluated in 6 occasions each year, in order to distribute awards across […]

– letter from Wendy Powley, ACM-W Celebration Chair I would like to thank Valerie and Jodi for their warm welcome in the August newsletter.   I am delighted to be taking on the role as Chair of the Celebrations project, an initiative that I am very passionate and excited about. In 2010, my friend Kelly Lyons […]

Welcome to the October, 2015, issue of ACM-W Connections.  There’s a lot going on in ACM-W’s world. The big news is that the ACM Executive Committee has approved a new charter for ACM-W!  I’ll highlight just a few of the changes. I want to thank all of those who have been working hard for ACM-W […]