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Google Bringing The Anita Borg Scholarship To Asia
These 2011 Google Anita Borg Scholarship recipients and finalists were invited to a local Google office.
Credit: Google Student Blog
Computer science and technology are quickly changing the education ecosystem of every nation around the globe. The Anita Borg scholarship plays a role in getting girls into computer science.
Google has been providing the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship since 2004. It helps to provide academic funding to young women who want to get into computer science or related technology fields. The scholarship helps many girls realize their dreams of working in technology. Now Google is bringing the scholarship to Asia, to help the many girls in those countries get the kind of education they need to proceed in their professional lives.
The scholarship is available to current female students who are enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or postgraduate study at universities in Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. Recipients will receive an amount equal to $3,500 that will go towards their continued education. Applications are currently being accepted. The deadline is June 3.
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