Only A Few Days Left To Receive Super Early Bird Pricing On Grace Hopper Celebration Registration

Hello All,

If you are planning to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) this year, please keep in mind that there are only a few days left to receive SUPER EARLY BIRD PRICING on registration. Register by July 6, 2009 and SAVE!

Super Early Bird Pricing for the GHC closes on July 6.  Register today and save $100 on our regular registration pricing. For the detail of the pricing, please visit: http://gracehopper.org/2009/participate/registration/.
 
Be sure to also register for your hotel room at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort today.  The hotel is filling up fast. For hotel reservation go to: http://gracehopper.org/2009/participate/hotel-and-travel/.

Regards,

Beibei (Betty) Yang
WiCS President

Fwd: CodeChef Contests Now Open to USA Participants

From: Anusha Pinto <anusha@codechef.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Subject: CodeChef Contests Now Open to USA Participants
To: Beibei <wics@cs.uml.edu>


Hi Beibei

As an important member of your ACM chapter, I'd like to introduce you
to CodeChef.com - a non-profit programming competition focused on
fostering education and growth amongst the software development
community. Each month we host programming contests that engage and
challenge software programmers globally.

After our successful launch in India, we are extremely excited to
announce that starting this July participants from the USA, are
eligible to win prizes on CodeChef too!

The CodeChef July Challenge will begin on July 1st at 06:30 EST and
end on July 13th at 06:30 EST with cash prizes worth $3000 to be won!
To find out more about this contest, check our latest blog post.

CodeChef has monthly algorithm competitions as well as other types of
programming challenges like last month's Gamers Challenge. New
contest formats are currently in development.

Feel free to look around our site, check out our previous contests and
solve some practice problems. I would love to hear your feedback about
our site, contest formats or any other ideas for improvement.

To help a greater number of students benefit through CodeChef we have
been working on a number of community based initiatives like CodeChef
Campus Chapters. Through this initiative we encourage students to get
together and organize meet ups, hold sessions, discuss solutions and
help each other improve their programming skills. We also host inter
and intra college competitions.

It would be great if you could spread the word about CodeChef to your
ACM chapter. If you have any questions or suggestions, let me know :)

Cheers!

Anusha Pinto
Community Evangelist
http://codechef.com

Stay updated about CodeChef:
http://blog.codechef.com
http://twitter.com/codechef
http://www.facebook.com/pages/CodeChef/53227312798#

Computer Science & Engineering Students: Upcoming Scholarship Deadline

Earlier this year AfterCollege launched an Engineering Student
Scholarship for students seeking a bachelor's, master's or doctorate
degree in engineering or computer science. The next application
deadline is coming up on Tuesday, June 30th.

Now that classes are finished, it's easy for students to forget a
summer scholarship application deadline. Please email the message
below to your students so that even if they're off campus, they'll be
sure to know about this upcoming deadline.

The next application deadline for the AfterCollege Engineering Student
Scholarship is coming up on Tuesday, June 30th.

If you are a full-time student pursuing a bachelor's, master's or
doctorate degree i! n engineering or computer science, we welcome you
to apply, even if you already applied in March.

Please visit the site below to access the eligibility requirements and
application:
http://www.aftercollege.com/content/article/aftercollege_engineering_student_scholarship/

ALSO…

Do you speak Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Hindi, Pashto, Punjabi, Turkish
or Urdu? If so, we encourage you to apply for our new Critical Need
Language Scholarship, regardless of your major. This scholarship
deadline is also on Tuesday, June 30th.

Please visit the site below to access the eligibility requirements and
application:
http://www.aftercollege.com/content/article/aftercollege_critical_language_scholarship/

We are excited to be able to provide these opportunities and hope you
will apply.

Hilary White
AfterCollege, Inc.
University Relations AssociateVoice: 415.263.1300 ext. 114
Fax: 415.263.1307
http://www.aftercollege.com