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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Google RISE Awards
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this grant opportunity</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#434343">The Google RISE Awards is an annual grant program for organizations that promote extracurricular computer science (CS) for pre-university/secondary
school/K-12 students, with a specific emphasis on girls and underrepresented minorities. The program is one of the ways Google is working to increase diversity in the tech industry and access to CS education around the world. In 2015,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.google.com/edu/resources/programs/google-rise-awards/#!award-recipients"><span style="color:#434343;text-decoration:none">
</span>37 organizations</a><span style="color:#434343"> from 17 countries received RISE Awards for projects ranging from</span><a href="http://www.africateengeeks.co.za/"><span style="color:#434343;text-decoration:none">
</span>programming clubs</a><span style="color:#434343"> in Johannesburg to workshops on</span><a href="http://www.womensaudiomission.org/"><span style="color:#434343;text-decoration:none">
</span>CS and music production</a><span style="color:#434343"> in San Francisco.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#434343">The RISE Awards are now accepting</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/edu/resources/programs/google-rise-awards/#!application"><span style="color:#434343;text-decoration:none">
</span>applications</a><span style="color:#434343"> through February 19. More information on eligibility and selection criteria is listed on
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">their</span><a href="http://www.google.com/edu/resources/programs/google-rise-awards"><span style="color:#434343;text-decoration:none">
</span>website</a><span style="color:#434343">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Shannon White<br>
Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">702 W. Kalamazoo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Lansing, MI 48909<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">517.373.9489<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Whites29@michigan.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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