Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Announces Contest Winners

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research and National Center for Women & IT
have announced the winners of their Computing Higher Education Seed Fund.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Announces Contest Winners Microsoft
Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research, along with the National Center for Women &
Information Technology (NCWIT), have announced the winners of the most recent
NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund. The Computing Higher Education Seed Fund,
which is a joint venture between Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research
and NCWIT, provides U.S. academic institutions with start-up funds to develop
and implement initiatives that recruit and retain women in computing and
technology fields of study. This round of the NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund
will provide $10,000 each to five U.S. institutions. Rane Johnson-Stempson,
Principal Research Director for Education and Scholarly Communications Programs
at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Research Connections, said that,
"Studies clearly show that organizations that are more diverse are also more
innovative. Increasing the representation of women in technical organizations is
a critical component of overall diversity, and Microsoft Corporation
(NASDAQ:MSFT) is fully committed to that goal. We're proud to support the
NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund, and we look forward to seeing how these
"start-up" projects take this initial funding and use it to grow larger
efforts to broaden participation in computing education". Microsoft Corp.
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