Women Techmakers is excited to partner with Udacity to offer a Women Techmakers Udacity Scholarship. We are always developing new ways to increase professional and educational opportunity and provide high value technical resources to women around the world. This initiative will offer 100 full scholarships for technical certification courses to women in the Women Techmakers community.
The scholarship will provide women around the world with free access to one of Udacity’s Google-certified online Front End Web Development, Android Basics, Android Developer, or Full Stack DevelopmentNanodegree courses, for one year.
Application Deadline: June 9th, 2017
Institution of Study: Women Techmakers and Udacity
Country of Study: USA
Scholarship Type: Full 100 Scholarships with below benefits
Receive a fully-funded scholarship for one year to build your technical skills through one these Google co-created Udacity Nanodegrees: Front-end Web Development, Android Basics, Android Developer, or Full Stack Development.
Participate in a global community of women in technology through your specialized Nanodegree cohort hosted by Women Techmakers. Meet Googlers, experts, and mentors through a global Slack team and course forums.
Nanodegree graduates will receive career coaching and interview tips from Google and our partners. We’ll also share public speaking pro-tips and offer to share your unique story and project across the Women Techmakers platforms.
Level of education: Postdoctoral programme.
Eligibility
- Identify as a woman
- Have fluency or near fluency in engish
- Meet Udacity’s technology requirements
- Be at least 18 years of age at the time the application is submitted
- Commit to finishing the nanodegree program within one year
above the age of majority in the country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence (or at least twenty years old in Taiwan) at the time of entry;
6 not a resident of Italy, Brazil, Quebec, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Sudan) or;
7 not a person or entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions; and
8 have access to the Internet as of May 19, 2017. Contest is void in Italy, Brazil, Quebec, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and where prohibited by law. Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders of Google, Udacity Inc., and their parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, advertising and promotion agencies, representatives, and agents (“Contest Entities”), and members of the Contest Entities’ and their immediate families (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each, regardless of where they live) and members of the households (whether related or not) of such employees, officers and directors are ineligible to participate in this Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. If you are entering as part of a company or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and/or your employer. If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a prize. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer’s or company’s policies and procedures.
How to apply
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. To enter the Contest, visit the Contest website located at Contest Site during the Contest Period and follow the instructions for submitting essays that [demonstrate how a Udacity Nanodegree will help her reach her career goals and how it relates to her career path.(“Submission”). The Submission must meet the “Submission Requirements,” described below. LIMIT ONE (1) ENTRY PER PERSON. Subsequent entries will be disqualified. All entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. (PT) on June 9, 2017. Entries are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. All entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry, and the potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder for that email address. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned to an email address by an Internet service provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email address for the domain.
ESSAY REQUIREMENTS. The Submission must not be longer than 250 words per essay and must meet the following criteria:It must not be derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is inappropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, indecent, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of the Contest.