I guess all Google Anita Borg scholars will agree with me that the
best part of getting the Google Anita Borg scholarship is the all-expenses
paid retreat. During the retreat, I get to meet scholars studying in
university of different countries within the Asia Pacific region,
including Singapore, Malaysia, China, India, Australia, Korean and
Japan. It is quite surprising for my that the scholars from the
southeast asia region include only students studying in Singapore and
Malaysia. I guess it is because many female students studying in the
southeast asia region do not know about the Google Anita Borg
scholarship. If you are a female students studying computer science or
information technology in the southeast asia region, please don't
hesitate to apply! More information about the Google Anita Borg
scholarship is available at this
link.
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| Picture of all recipients of Google Anita Borg APAC 2015 |
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| Most activities for the retreat are held in at the Google Shanghai office |
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| The night view from the river cruise was breathtaking |
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Janice and I taking selfies together with funny wigs
Yiqun, Cheryl (Googler) and I |
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| I am so proud of the cute robot that my team built during the hackathon |
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During the retreat, we get to know about some of the exciting on-going projects in
Google. We also had resume review, resume workshop and mock interview
that help in improving our career search skills. I have included some
photos taken during the river cruise over the beautiful HuangPu River (
黄浦江)).
My favourite part of the retreat is the robot hackathon where we get to
build a robot that pushes another robot to the edge of a round table.
Although my team loses in the one-to-one robot fighting competition, we feel very happy when our
cute baby robot actually manage to push all robots out of the table during the all-robots-fighting competition (i.e., the free fight)! If you are interested in how our cute robot fight in the all-robots-fighting competition, you should check out the video below!
Free fight
Posted by Xiaopeng Yang on Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Disclaimer: No robot is harm during the robot hackathon. :-)
