Google India Women in Engineering Award 2008
Posted by Manoj Varghese, Human
Resources Director, India
Diversity at Google means having a workforce that reflects the
diversity of our customers' perspectives, ideas and cultures –
one that thinks and acts inclusively, and fundamentally values
people's similarities and differences. As part of our ongoing
commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology,
the India team has taken our first steps: in December we launched
the
India "Women in Engineering Award" to recognize women
in the field of computer science and engineering.
In its inception year, we have extended this award to recognized
engineering schools across India; it is open to any woman student
in computer science engineering who meets the
application criteria. This initiative has been received
positively, as has been indicated by the inundating queries and
subsequent applications. The last date for applying is January 31st and we are looking
forward to hearing from even more
After our panel reviews all applications, the winners will be
announced in a little more than a month, on February 29th. The
winners will be invited to visit the Google engineering office in
Bangalore during first week of March for a conclave comprising of
keynotes, panel discussions, tech talks, breakouts and an award
ceremony.
We hope this award will encourage students to take up computer
science engineering as their study, and perhaps
inspire some of you to take this up as a career too.
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