Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) Scholarship Program

该奖项为大约100名本科生和研究生提供资金，参加2015年格蕾丝·霍珀庆典（GHC），这是一个专注于计算机技术女性需求的年度会议。它将女性在计算机领域的研究和职业兴趣带到最前沿，以鼓励和支持女性在计算机领域追求、保持和进步。NSF奖学金支持允许那些不能参加会议的学生参加，并成为在会议上培养的更大的计算专业人员社区的一部分。这个项目的智力价值在于可以接触到GHC的许多技术介绍和研究人员。会议让学生们接触到来自工业界和学术界的众多前沿科学家、研究人员和有远见的人，他们可以作为榜样和导师。它展示了参与者的技术成功，并提供了一个探索学科前沿的论坛，以及学生与领先从业者和研究人员之间的对话，同时提供了专业发展的机会。过去的GHC会议已经被证明打破了女性从事计算机职业的障碍。学生参加这次会议的更广泛的影响包括：增加了学生留在计算机行业并继续深造的意愿；拓宽与会者在技术领域的知识；打破女性在计算机学科中普遍存在的孤立感；并逐渐灌输追求计算机事业的信心。这项旅行奖学金提供了一个独特的机会，直接影响未来计算机科学家的职业生涯，并迎接扩大计算机参与的挑战。

This award provides funding for approximately one hundred undergraduate and graduate students to attend the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC), an annual conference focused on the needs of technical women in computing. It brings research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront in order to encourage and support women to pursue, remain, and advance in computing. NSF scholarship support allows students who could not otherwise attend to participate and to become part of the larger community of computing professionals that is cultivated at the conference. The intellectual merit of this project lies in the access to the many technical presentations and researchers at GHC. The conference exposes students to a wide range of leading edge scientists, researchers, and visionaries from industry and academia who serve as role models and mentors. It showcases participants' technical success and provides a forum for exploration of the frontiers of the discipline and a dialogue between students and leading practitioners and researchers while offering opportunities for professional development.Past GHC conferences have been shown to break down the barriers to women pursuing careers in computing. The broader impacts of students participating in this conference include: increased student intention to remain in computing and pursue higher studies; broadening of attendees' knowledge of technical fields; breaking the feelings of isolation common among women in computing disciplines; and instilling confidence to pursue computing careers. This travel scholarship support provides a unique opportunity to directly affect the careers of future computer scientists and meet the challenge of broadening participation in computing.