Today we recognize and congratulate the 28 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Asia Pacific recipients for 2014, representing 23 institutions in 9 countries across the region. They join another 67 scholars in our Greater China program announced earlier this year. Asia Pacific scholars receive a scholarship amount towards their tuition and will attend the Google Scholars’ Retreat in Tokyo later this month, consisting of workshops, technical talks, panel discussions, a hackathon and plenty of networking opportunities. Watch this video of highlights from last year’s scholars’ retreat held in Sydney.


We created the Anita Borg scholarship to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, and become active role models and leaders in these fields. Since bringing the scholarship program to Asia Pacific eight years ago, we’ve grown our alumni to over 400 talented women from Xi’an to Christchurch. Here’s the list of this year’s APAC scholars:

Judith Gammie, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Marnie Lamprecht, University of Queensland, Australia Kagona Awori, University of Melbourne, Australia Sarah Bennett, University of New South Wales, Australia Sarah Heimlich, Macquarie University, Australia Jaimie McGlashan, Deakin University, Australia Samia Kabir, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India Spandana Raj Babbula, Indian Institute of Technology, India Vidhisha Balachandran, People's Education Society Institute of Technology, India Vaibhavi Desai, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India Maria Francis, Indian Institute of Science, India Kesha Shah, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India Lavanya Sita Tekumalla, Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore, India An Nguyen Thi Thu, Keio University, Japan Mana Sasagawa, Ochanomizu University, Japan Rieko Tsuji, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Ami Otsuka, Tsuda College, Japan So Jung Yun, Korea Advanced Institute Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea Minhae Kwon, Ewha Woman's University, Korea Caitlin Duncan, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Roseanna Grundy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Catherine Northcott, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, New Zealand Reema Bajwa, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Qurat Ul Ann, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Hui Xian Lynette Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Tao Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore Nuzla Ismail, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Dr. Anita Borg was not only an accomplished computer scientist who developed cutting edge systems, she was also passionate about dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering this field of work. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology, began an online community for technical women called Systers, and co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. We’re proud to keep her memory alive through the scholarship program.

If you’re interested in learning more about the scholarships we offer, visit the Google Scholarships site.

Posted by Cheryl Tang, Tech Staffing Programs, Google Asia Pacific