<div dir="ltr">Prof. Silvia Coradeschi (d. Feb 5, 2014) was a founding trustee of RoboCup and an early visionary in the RoboCup initiative. She served as General Chair of RoboCup 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden, was a frequent competition participant, and was an examplar of the RoboCup ideal of engaging in cutting edge AI and Robotics research.<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br>To honor her memory, the RoboCup Federation created "The Silvia Coradeschi RoboCup Award" in 2014 for a young female RoboCup student, with distinguishing research. See past awardees at <a href="http://www.robocup.org/about-robocup/the-robocup-silvia-coradeschi-award/" target="_blank">robocup.org</a>.<br><br>We are now calling for candidates to the 2015 Award.<br><br>The award recipient, to be named at the RoboCup 2015 banquet will receive:<br> - a certificate<br> - reimbursement for the RoboCup 2015 registration fee<br> - free registration at one (any) future international RoboCup<br> - a $500 honorarium<br><br>Eligible candidates are female graduate students who have not yet earned a Ph.D. and who are registered for RoboCup 2015.<br><br>The two criteria are:<br><br>1) Distinguishing research as evidenced by, for example, refereed publications.<br><br>2) RoboCup leadership, either within a team, and/or in the broad RoboCup community.<br><br>To nominate a female student, the student's professor should send a nominating email to April Foster, <a href="mailto:april.robocup@gmail.com" target="_blank">april.robocup@gmail.com</a>, by June 30th, 2015. The email must address both of the award criteria.<br><br>The nominating professor should also solicit at least one and not more than two supporting emails to be sent by RoboCup community members from a different team, addressing one or both of the award criteria. The supporting emails are also to be sent to April Foster, <a href="mailto:april.robocup@gmail.com" target="_blank">april.robocup@gmail.com</a>.<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span><br clear="all"><br></div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div>April Foster</div>
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