Ishika Memorial Action Fund at Womentum

Womentum is a non-profit organization with a mission to empower women entrepreneurs running micro-businesses. It is a global crowdfunding platform that donates 100% of raised funds directly to the women entrepreneurs world-wide. Once these women’s micro-businesses become successful, they re-donate a percentage of their original received donation to another woman entrepreneur in their community through a unique […]

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Prof. Ram Kumar Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Research at IIT-Roorkee

We feel very privileged and honored to have been able to support the creation of a Ram Kumar Prize Fund at the Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee.  The object and purpose of the Fund is to nurture and celebrate excellence in teaching and research by way of instituting an annual prize, named after Prof. Ram […]

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Ishika Memorial Action Fund

Womentum is a non-profit organization with a mission to empower women entrepreneurs running micro-businesses. It is a global crowdfunding platform that donates 100% of raised funds directly to the women entrepreneurs world-wide. Once these women’s micro-businesses become successful, they re-donate a percentage of their original received donation to another woman entrepreneur in their community through a unique […]

Annual Awards for Excellence at IIT-Roorkee

IIT-Roorkee Heritage Foundation Excellence Awards celebrate annually the excellence exhibited by the IIT-Roorkee students. The winners are selected based on demonstrated excellence in academics, sports, extra-curricular activities, and a self-assessment personal essay. The winners for 2016 have been announced and they will be recognized in the award ceremony slated for November 19, 2016. We have instituted four awards.  We […]

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Best Paper Awards at EDM 2016

International Educational Data Mining Society supports collaboration and scientific development in the emerging discipline of Educational Data Mining. This discipline is concerned with developing methods for exploring the data that comes from educational settings in order to shed light on the learning processes. EDM conference series has emerged as a leading international forum for discussing and disseminating recent advances in educational data mining. […]

Fellowships to the ICDE 2016 Next Generation Researchers

IEEE International Conferences on Data Engineering  address research issues in designing, building, managing, and evaluating advanced data systems and applications. They provide leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. 32nd IEEE ICDE will be held in Helsinki, Finland, May 16-20, 2016. Due to its numerous […]

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Mathcounts Competitions

Mathcounts strives to engage middle school students of all ability and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs. The Mathcounts competition series brings together students from all of our states in a series of in-person contests. We first sponsored the Peninsula Chapter Mathcounts competition in 2013.  We found the experience so gratifying that we  sponsored again the […]

Sponsoring 2015 IIT-Roorkee Alumni National Conference

IIT-Roorkee has roots going back to 1847 and ranks amongst the best technological institutions in the world. The IIT-Roorkee Alumni National Conference 2015 is planned to be a unique professional conference with the theme “Network with the future, reconnect with the past”. The event shall include a mix of talks, panel discussions, networking opportunities and 1-1 mentoring. We are […]

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Fellowships to VLDB 2015 Student Attendees

VLDB Conferences constitute one of the most eminent venues for the timely dissemination of research and development results in the field of database management. Data management and databases remain among the main technological cornerstones of the applications of the twenty-first century. With the emergence of Big Data, data-related technologies are becoming more important than ever before. […]

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Strengthening Community through Public Library

The quality of a community depends directly on its citizens’ access to knowledge. Public libraries enrich lives and expand opportunities for all citizens by promoting reading and the active use of cultural, intellectual, and information resources. In a  national poll in 2008, almost all Americans (92%) said that they view their public library as an important resource. Seven out of […]

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