FB and Google scholarships for Telangana girl

Spandana Raj Babbula, a Warangal native and a fifth-year dual degree computer science and engineering student at IIT-Madras just pulled off a blinder. She is now one of the rarest brilliants who was able to crack has won the prestigious Google Anita Borg memorial scholarship (Asia Pacific) and Facebook’s 2014 Grace Hopper scholarship. The honour comes to Spandana after the evaluation of her academic background and demonstrated leadership qualities from a pool of applicants. She received a financial award of Rs 1 lakh for this academic year and recently attended the scholars’ retreat at Google’s Tokyo office.

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On the other hand, she will very soon fly down to Phoenix, Arizona, USA, with the Facebook’s scholarship, she will attend the Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing, one of the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. Spandana claims her research project as part of an internship at Microsoft Research, USA, and a project with IIT helped her fetch these prestigious scholarships.

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