The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $25,000 grant entitled "Student Support for the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems" (PI Jack Mostow, Co-PI Carolyn Rosé).
Who is eligible: This funding is reserved for advanced doctoral students, or those who have completed a Master’s degree, have undertaken a major interdisciplinary project, and/or have about a year of academic work to complete prior to defending their dissertation proposal. This experience should complement the feedback students receive at their home institutions. Accordingly, students applying to participate should be working on a doctoral thesis, but should not be in a stage so close to completion that feedback during the ITS conference would be irrelevant. Examples of appropriate stages of work would include the periods of time immediately prior to or soon after completing one's proposal.
What is covered: Students will be allowed to participate in workshops and tutorials the day before and the day after the main technical portion of the conference. Through this grant proposal, we expect to provide financial support to the Young Researchers Track participants by awarding up to 25 advanced doctoral students approximately $1,000 each (on average – the goal will be that all expenses will be covered). The financial support provided by NSF will go towards their travel hotel accommodations and conference registration. Each student will be assigned a roommate (to save hotel costs) and to foster interactions between future ITS scholars.
Selection criteria: In selecting participants for the NSF funding the committee will consider the quality and broad interest of the applicants' research and will also strive to select a set of studies and projects representing a diversity of institutions, topics, disciplines, ethnicities, and nationalities. We hope to encourage the participation of as many students as possible from small US institutions and minority groups. We expect that the majority of funding will go to students in US institutions. The Conference Chair, YRT Chairs, and Program Chairs will constitute or appoint a committee to review applications and allocate funds among applicants.
How to apply: Once paper acceptance decisions are made, we will notify authors who may be eligible how to apply for this support. | 