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Google Brings Women in Engineering Award

Women in India to be recognized

By Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor

17th of January 2008, 20:51 GMT

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Not the first time Google India organizes something to honor its women

Many women have come up with wonderful inventions throughout the history and mythology, but their work was recognized way too rarely. Google decided to set things straight and launched in December its India "Women in Engineering Award." It decided to let the whole world know about it now on the Official Google Blog, because the last day for applying is drawing near and it looks like the project is a success already, judging by the number of applicants.

"In its inception year, we have extended this award

to recognized engineering schools across India; it is open to any woman student in computer science engineering who meets the application criteria. This initiative has been received positively, as has been indicated by the inundating queries and subsequent applications. The last date for applying is January 31st and we are looking forward to hearing from even more applicants."

The winners of the contest will be announced after almost a month, on February the 29th, and they will be promoted as such and honored at the Google engineering office in Bangalore. Keynotes, panel discussions, tech talks and breakouts will be included around the award ceremony in the first week of March, so the victors will get to see the way a real company functions up close for a good period of time.

Google is keen on trying to create within its ranks a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers' perspectives, ideas and cultures," as Manoj Varghese, the Human Resources director for Google India noted on the blog. That means that they are trying to re-create the world again within the company, if that isn't too bold of a comparison. With the award the Mountain View based company hopes to encourage the young to look at computer science engineering a second time in case they overlooked it because this is the future.

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Comment #1 by: hary on 27 Feb 2008, 20:20 GMT

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Well, I wanna add some suggestion to Google. Could you tell us one thing , why Google's selection criteria is so high. Why dont you offer scholerships to those people (Atlest Women) who do not belong to IIT or IIM or IISc , Talking about the women are from Regional or General Engineering Collages or Bsc and MCA (students). Please do consider the cases of women who are more pragmatic in the real world (in terms of there field).. I believe that studying or associating with big branded collages would not ensure that she is totally deserving candidate. If we count the number of Googler's in the current scenerio.Specially the Women (who are engineering or MCA degree holders) , one can easily trace out the number of IITians in them .As because Google believe that in india talent lies in Top 5 engineering collages only. I hope google will understand one day that not ever scientist in the history was the Docterate from Havard, MIT or Princeton , but they are doctorate in there skills and seeking for oppertunity and platform to show there talent.

Hary.(Indore)

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