CS Conferences for Undergraduates

CS Research Programs

Students@SC – Supercomputing – interest in high performance computing
- Computing for Change – A competition empowering people to create change through computing
- Student Cluster Competition – design and build small clusters, learn scientific applications, compete in a 48-hour challenge
- Student Volunteers – support the conference attendees and conference overall (partial scholarship, but mostly covered)
SIGGRAPH – Computer graphics industry and community
- Student Volunteers (waive registration fee and provide some scholarships)
CVPR – Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition community
- Student Volunteers – waived registration fee, but no travel grants (don’t see info for this year’s conference)
Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) – Regional Conferences
- Programming contests, poster and research contests,

National Council of Undergraduate Research
- Includes all disciplines, strictly for undergraduate students
- Career fairs, graduate school fairs, takes place on a college campus

ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (Tapia) Conference
- Keynotes, workshops, career fair, birds of a feather talks
- Scholarships specific for travel
Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC)
- Keynote speakers, career fair, on-site interviews, etc.
- Scholarships specific for travel

Google Conference and Travel Scholarships
- Free conference registration and up to $1000 in airfare and hotel
ACM-W
- Provides scholarships for diversity conferences such as GHC and Tapia, as well as any other computer science conference
- One-time award
Microsoft Diversity Conference Scholarship
- Paid registration and up to $1200 for travel
AnitaB.org
- Scholarships for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to Grace Hopper Celebration