Fwd: [SIGCSE-MEMBERS] NSF Travel Grants to attend CompEd 2025 for those at U.S. Institutions

[Tiffany Barnes]

Tiffany Barnes
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
North Carolina State University

(she / her / hers)

Note: I check email M-Th at 12:30pm (why?). Apologies for delayed response.

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From: Susan Rodger <00000c7015873f2...@listserv.acm.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Subject: [SIGCSE-MEMBERS] NSF Travel Grants to attend CompEd 2025 for those at U.S. Institutions
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I have just received an NSF Travel Grant to provide $1000 Travel grants towards airfare for those at U.S. Institutions to attend the ACM CompEd 2025 conference held in Gaborone, Botswana on Oct 23-25, with Working Groups on Oct 21-22 and Doctoral Consortium on Oct. 22. 

Apply by July 29! We will continue to take applications after that date until all awards are distributed. 

These grants are for people currently at an academic institution that is located in the United States. (You do not need to be a U.S. Citizen, just reside in the U.S. at an academic institution.)

Your $1000 travel grant goes towards airfare only (on an American carrier) to travel from the US to Botswane and back, to attend the CompEd 2025 conference in Gaborone, Botswane  in October 2025..

In particular, foreign travel is subject to the "Fly America Act" requirement:

Use of U.S.-Flag Air Carriers

In accordance with the Fly America Act (49 U.S.C. § 40118), any air transportation to,

from, between, or within a country other than the U.S. of persons or property, the expense of

which will be assisted by NSF funding, must be performed by or under a code-sharing

arrangement with a U.S.-flag air carrier if service provided by such a carrier is available. Tickets

(or documentation for electronic tickets) must identify the U.S. flag air carrier’s designator code

and flight number.

The key thing to note from this requirement is that air travel has to be done on either a US carrier, or a code-share ticket bought through a U.S. carrier.

Recipients will be chosen based on certain priorities: those with a paper, poster, panel, doctoral consortium, working group, or item associated with the conference over just attending, assistant professors over full professors, etc. With our previous CompEd Travel grants for 2019 and 2023, almost everyone who applied and qualified received a travel grant. We cannot make promises that everyone will get one. 

After the conference is over we will collect receipts from you. You will be reimbursed after attending the conference and submitting your receipts. You must attend the conference in order to be reimbursed. 

Apply here for the CompEd Travel Grants:

   https://forms.gle/i2uihQux6ToCVMK19

Susan Rodger