Boise State University Top Ten Scholar and recently graduated Computer Science undergrad Marianna Budnikova has been selected to receive the prestigious Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Marianna is one of 25 Computer Science and Computer Engineering undergraduates nationwide receiving this honor in 2014 and the first ever recipient from an Idaho university since the award’s inception in 2004. Marianna’s accomplishment puts Boise State’s Computer Science program alongside prestigious programs at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Princeton, UC-Berkeley, and Stanford, which routinely see students given this high honor and opportunity.
Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship recipients each receive a $10,000 award for the 2014-15 academic year and were invited to attend the Annual Google Scholars’ Retreat in Mountain View, California. Scroll to the bottom to see photos from Marianna’s trip. Out of 16 teams at the retreat, Marianna’s Hackathon team was awarded the “Most Creative” award by a panel of Google engineers for their implementation of an educational app on Android. They each received $100 Google Playstore certificates for this achievement.
While Marianna has received her Bachelor’s in Computer Science at Boise State, she’ll remain here as she pursues her Master’s in Computer Science. Please join us in congratulating Marianna for such an impressive accomplishment.
About the Scholarship:
Through this program, Google honors the legacy of Anita Borg who believed that technology affects all aspects of our economic, political, social and personal lives. A technology rebel with a cause, in her life she fought tirelessly to ensure that technology’s impact would be a positive one. It was this vision that inspired Anita in 1997 to found the Institute for Women and Technology. Today this organization continues on her legacy and bears her name, The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
