Women in
Computer Science
Scholarship

Bending Spoons will review the application materials and be in touch with a few online tests for the applicants to complete, followed by an interview.

Bending Spoons will inform the scholarship recipients of their success via email no later than April 8, 2022, when it will publish the ten names on this website. The recipients must prove that they've been admitted to the Engineering of Computing Systems program at Politecnico di Milano for the year 2022/2023.

If any of the ten scholarship recipients reject the offer, accept an alternative scholarship or funding offer, decline to attend the Engineering of Computing Systems program, or fail to meet the criteria in some way, then the scholarship is instead awarded to the eleventh most impressive applicant, and so on.

More information can be found here.

Any applicant meeting the following criteria is welcome to apply:

• Identifies as a woman
• Is aged 18 or older when the degree program begins
• Has been accepted or intend to apply to the Engineering of Computer Systems course at Politecnico di Milano for the year 2022/2023
• Has a family ISEE/ISEEU for the year 2022 no higher than €50,000
• Has a good understanding of the English language

Bending Spoons reserves the right to ask applicants for documentation confirming that they meet the criteria.

Applications are open from October 19, 2021, to February 26, 2022. Scholarship recipients will be informed via email no later than April 8, 2022, when the ten names will be published on this site.

Those interested in applying for a scholarship are invited to do so using the buttons in this website. Applicants are asked to provide their full name, a contact email, curriculum vitae, motivation letter, and high school transcripts. This helps to reduce spam and cheating. Anyone providing information that appears false (for example, entering the name "Obi-Wan Kenobi") will have their application disregarded.

More information on the Politecnico di Milano Engineering of Computing Systems program application process is available at this link.

Please remember that admission to (and subsequent undertaking of) the degree program for the year 2022/2023 are conditions for receiving a scholarship from Bending Spoons.

To receive the scholarship, successful applicants must demonstrate that they've been admitted to the Engineering of Computing Systems degree program at Politecnico di Milano, which they must then undertake. They must also demonstrate that their family ISEE/ISEEU for the year 2022 is no higher than €50,000. The first year’s scholarship payment will be made within 15 days of Bending Spoons confirming the eligibility of the successful applicants. More information will be provided to the successful applicants.

Bending Spoons is a Milan-based tech company that specializes in developing and marketing mobile apps. Its category-leading apps, which include Splice and 30 Day Fitness, are used by tens of millions worldwide and get downloaded over 300,000 times per day.

Bending Spoons is sponsoring this scholarship initiative, in partnership with Politecnico di Milano, to encourage the greater participation and representation of women in computer science.

For more information on Bending Spoons, check out the website and what Spooners say about working there.