This year, Women in Engineering is offering 3 virtual registrations to the Grace Hopper Conference 2022 through HydroOne's WEMADEIT Impact Grant. Please fill out the application below. Application Deadline: August 15th, 2022.
About the Grace Hopper Conference 2022
Grace Hopper Conference is the world's largest tech-based conference for women in computing. Every year, women technologists and leaders from around the world come togerther to learn, network and celebrate their achievements. The Anita Borg Institute co-presents GHC with the Association of Computing Machinery.
Conference Attendees will have amazing networking and mentoring opportunities. Workshop and session presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industry, academia and government. The conference also aims to offer professional development through a variety of activities and workshops.
This year, the Grace Hopper Conference will take place from September 20th-23rd, 2022. To learn more about the conferenve, visit: https://ghc.anitab.org/
About HydroOne's WEMADEIT Impact Grant
With sponsorship from Hydro One, Waterloo Engineering Outreach is proud to make funds available to students though the WEMADEIT Impact Grant. Understanding that students have valuable insight on what workshops, projects, and programs would most benefit their community, we would like to offer micro-EDII/Outreach project grants to current students wishing to run an event/project/program either on campus or in the community that support EDII (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigenization) initiatives. Grants would be awarded to projects that demonstrate Outreach to under-represented groups in STEM within the community at-large, and projects that build community on campus or address systemic racism.
To receive a microgrant, students will need to submit a proposal with a basic breakdown of how the funds from the grant will be utilized. These proposals might include community outreach, guest speakers, networking events, or educational workshops; however, please feel free to submit any type of proposal which nurtures equity, diversity, inclusion and indigenization within the community or on campus.
This opportunity is open to engineering students both at the undergraduate and graduate levels; should a submitted application prove successful, the recipient of the grant will be required to complete an exit survey, as well as a brief write-up detailing how the project unfolded and any lessons learned.
The write-up will answer questions such as:
- In what ways was the project successful?
- In what ways could the project be improved, and which components would need to be altered?
- Are there opportunities to broaden the reach of the project?
By collecting this information, we will be able to improve and expand on larger-scale programs hosted by the Faculty of Engineering’s EDI and Outreach offices.