Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Student Scholarship and Travel Grants for the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing; October 1-4, 2008; Denver, CO

这个CISE特别项目奖为大约80名本科生和研究生提供资金，参加2008年格蕾丝·霍珀计算机女性庆典。第八届格蕾丝·霍珀庆典将于2008年10月1日至4日在科罗拉多州举行。这个特殊的项目是由CISE扩大参与计算计划资助的。这个项目的智力价值在于可以接触到会议上的许多技术介绍和研究人员。此外，学生有机会参加海报会议，并收到来自学科专家的反馈。格蕾丝·霍珀庆典为知识话语提供了一个独特的、支持性的环境，对女性和其他代表性不足的群体尤其有吸引力。这个项目更广泛的影响是为学生提供资源和支持，帮助他们坚持自己的课程，并获得继续通过IT劳动力管道的途径。参加格蕾丝·霍珀庆典的学生将接触到正在创造、改进和研究计算机和信息技术的女性，她们是榜样和导师。这项旅行奖学金的支持提供了一个独特的机会，可以直接影响未来计算机科学家的职业生涯，并增加女性在计算机领域的代表性。

This CISE Special Project award provides funding for approximately eighty undergraduate and graduate students to attend the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The eighth Grace Hopper Celebration will be held on October 1-4, 2008 in Colorado. This special project is funded by the CISE Broadening Participation in Computing Program.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the access to the many technical presentations and researchers at the conference. In addition, students have the opportunity to participate in poster sessions and receive feedback from discipline specialists. The Grace Hopper Celebration provides a unique, supportive environment for intellectual discourse that is particularly appealing for women and other under-represented groups. The broader impacts of this project deal with providing resources and support to students that will help them persist in their programs as well as access to avenues to continue through the IT workforce pipeline. Students who attend the Grace Hopper Celebration will be exposed to women who are creating, improving, and studying computer and information technologies who serve as role models and mentors. This travel scholarship support provides a unique opportunity to directly affect the careers of future computer scientists and increase the representation of women in computing.