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Why you would like to attend Grace Hopper Celebration?
Grace Hopper Celebration is a conference full of inspiration, energy, with a huge women technologists’ community. If you feel you are a minority in you engineering classes, you should go to GHC to discover there are thousands of women like you, ready to share life experience, and very excited about technology!
What happens in Grace Hopper Celebration?
GHC is a three-day conference designed to bring together women in computing to discuss research and career interests. The conference includes presentations on a variety of topics, professional development activities, an open source day and much more.
What do you do at Grace Hopper?
Hoppers are Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) volunteers who do everything from managing crowd, arranging resources, scanning the attendees to mic wrangling. Hoppers receive complimentary registration and are able to attend sessions, visit the career fair, and take advantage of everything GHC has to offer.
When does the application window for the Grace Hopper scholarship open?
The applications for GHC Scholars Program usually open around January and run till March. The scholarship application window for next year’s Grace Hopper Celebration (Sept 29 — Oct 2) will open in January 2020. To know more about the Grace Hopper scholarships or the GHC S cholars, follow this link.
What is gracegrace Hopper Celebration?
Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. GHC 2019 was hosted from October 1 — 4 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.
What is Grace Hopper best known for?
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906–1992) was an American computer scientist, United States Navy rear admiral and the inventor of the first compiler, a program that translates programming code to machine language. Her invention led to the creation of the COBOL programming language, which was one of the first high-level programming languages.
What is a GHC hcghc scholarship?
GHC Scholarships provide funds for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty to attend the celebration. Scholars who attend GHC gain access to career and academic workshops, networking opportunities, and memories worth a lifetime. Who can apply for scholarships?