by, for, and about women in science, technology, engineering, & math

• The NCWIT award for aspirations in computing, targeted at high school. girls, is accepting applications soon! There are local awards in a number of areas, and winners get sponsored to an awards event where they can meet other bright, ambitious girls interested in technology.

• The Systers Pass-it-On Awards are now accepting applications — small cash awards intended to support women in technology who will, in turn, “pass it on” by supporting other women.

• The ACM-W is providing scholarships for women graduate students or undergraduates to attend technical conferences.

Here in Boston, it’s one of the first spring-like days: hooray! Here are some links for your weekend enjoyment:

• Brown University’s Artemis Program for 9th grade girls interested in science and tech is seeking funding.

• The Free Software Foundation is also seeking donations to their Women’s Travel Fund to help get more women to this year’s LibrePlanet conference in Cambridge

• The National Center for Women & Information Technology is offering an award for high school girls interested in computing.

• 15 Female Scientists Who Changed the World — who else would you include?

• Rebecca Skloot talks about her new book on Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were harvested without her consent — descendants of those cells have contributed to a lot of advances in cancer research and are still in use in labs.

• And just for LOLz: Scientific Americat!