Google Awards Women Engineers

Google India announced the winners of the third Google India Women in
Engineering Award in a ceremony at its Hyderabad office. The award recognizes
women students in Computer Science and its related majors, and aims to inspire
them to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. This
year, applications were invited from women engineering students across
under-graduate, post-graduate and doctoral programs across eighty colleges in
the country, which include the IITs, BITS Pilani, IIITs, etc.

Google received over 200 applications from engineering schools across the
country. An internal team of engineers and product managers read through the
essays and assessed the overall quality of applications to arrive at a shortlist
of twenty-four finalists and eight award winners. The winners include: Ankita
Arvind Kejriwal, BITS Pilani, Goa; Kriti Sharma, Arya College of Engineering &
Information Technology, Jaipur;

Neha Kalekar, College of Engineering, Pune (COEP); Ishani Parekh, Dhirubhai
Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology; Hunny Mehrotra, NIT,
Rourkela; Chhaya Methani, International Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderabad; Kirti Garg, International Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderabad; and Shruti Mahambre, IIT, Bombay.

All the finalists had an action packed schedule with tech-talks and
engineering problems to solve at the conclave. They attended panel discussions
by senior engineers, product managers, and distinguished external speakers. The
conclave also gave the participants an opportunity to meet and network with
other women engineers and immerse themselves in technology for two days.