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<div><a name="Collegiate"><font face="Arial">Please see below for more information on the NCWIT Collegiate Award for Aspirations in Computing. As the coordinator for the high school award in Georgia and Puerto Rico, I know the impact that this award has both
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<div><a name="Collegiate"><font face="Arial">Sincerely,</font></a></div>
<div><a name="Collegiate"><font face="Arial">Jennifer</font></a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jennifer Whitlow, M.Ed.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jwhitlow@cc.gatech.edu</div>
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<a name="Collegiate">NCWIT Collegiate Award: for college women</a></h3>
<font color="#333333" face="Arial" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="height: 150px; line-height: 14px; display: inline; width: 150px;"><img src="https://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/image_type/aic_collegiatelogo_150_0.png" alt="Collegate Award Logo" align="right" style="border: 0px; height: 150px; line-height: 14px; outline: none; display: inline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; width: 150px;"></span></font>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">The <a href="http://aspirationsaward.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3c40d28c637908a2212dd2db4&id=8d7a32482b&e=fa1b6de5e3" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(18, 122, 187);">NCWIT Collegiate
Award</a> honors the outstanding computing accomplishments of undergraduate and graduate women. Conferred annually, the award recognizes technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of creativity and potential impact.</p>
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Prizes</h4>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Each Award winner and honorable mention receives:</p>
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<li>a trip to the NCWIT Summit on Women and IT, in Grapevine, Texas in May 2018, including a private networking reception and award ceremony</li><li>computing resources, gadgets, sponsor-branded swag, and more </li></ul>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">In addition to the prizes listed above, each winner receives $10,000 in cash and an engraved award; and, each honorable mention receives $2,500 in cash and a covered certificate.</p>
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Application Details</h4>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><strong>The 2018 NCWIT Collegiate Award will be conducted in two rounds: Preliminary and Finalist.</strong> Applicants representing three categories — (1) freshmen, sophomores, and two-year
college students; (2) juniors and seniors; and (3) graduate students — will be selected from the Preliminary Round to participate in the Finalist Round.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Students can apply online for the preliminary round at <a href="http://aspirationsaward.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3c40d28c637908a2212dd2db4&id=89cf733475&e=fa1b6de5e3" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(18, 122, 187);">http://bit.ly/AiCCollegiate</a> no
later no later than 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (HST) on October 30, 2017.</strong></p>
<p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><em>The NCWIT Collegiate Award is sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Qualcomm.</em></p>
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