Google India – Women Engineering Award 2009
2010 Google India Women in Engineering Award – Google India
Institute Name:
Google India
Website: http://www.google.co.in/jobs/womeninengineering/2010/index.html
About Google India :
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 (2009 -03-31)[update], the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running millions of servers worldwide, which process hundreds of millions of search requests each day and about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour.[5]
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, implying a value for the entire corporation of $23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations have been important tenets during the growth of Google. The company has been identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine’s #1 Best Place to Work,[6] and as the most powerful brand in the world.[7] Alexa ranks Google as the most visited website on the Internet.[8]
Details:
Google India has announced the 2010 Google India Women in Engineering Award. The award is to recognize and reward deserving women students in Computer Science and related majors, and inspire them to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. The awards are based on the candidates’ academic background and demonstrated leadership. A group of female undergraduate, graduate and PhD student finalists will be chosen from the applicant pool. The award recipients will receive a cash prize of INR 100000.This is not a scholarship. This is a one-time award, and the awardee is recognized for her academic excellence and demonstrated leadership skills.Each applicant will be required to submit the following: A detailed resume & Two essays on given topics (from a choice of four).These details can be found from the website mentioned.
The candidtes must be:
1. Be enrolled as a full time student in a recognized Indian institution.
2. Be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related majors.
3. Maintain a cumulative CGPA of at least 4.0 on a 5.0 scale, 8.0 on a 10.0 scale or equivalent in their current program.
4. Be enrolled in the 2nd, 3rd or final year if applying when in their bachelor’s degree, 1st or 2nd year if they are applying when in their master’s degree or are PhDs students in a related field.
Important Dates:
Last date to apply: October 31, 2009
For More Information Visit: http://www.google.co.in/jobs/womeninengineering/2010/index.html
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