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CEISE特别项目奖为大约80名本科生和研究生提供资金，让他们参加2008年Grace Hopper计算领域女性庆祝活动。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。这个特别项目是由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演示和研究人员。此外，学生有机会参加海报会议，并收到学科专家的反馈。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，对女性和其他代表不足的群体特别有吸引力。该项目的更广泛影响涉及为学生提供资源和支持，帮助他们坚持自己的计划，并获得通过IT劳动力管道继续下去的途径。参加格蕾丝·霍珀庆典的学生将接触到创造、改进和学习计算机和信息技术的女性，她们充当榜样和导师。这一旅行奖学金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.