The Canadian Distributed Mentor Project is a program to encourage undergraduate women in computer science and computer engineering to go to graduate school. It matches female students who have finished their second or third year of undergraduate studies with female professors for a summer of research and mentoring. It awards $3,500 to each student to supplement an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) in Universities, which provides $4,500. Thus, each student will receive a total of $8,000 for 16 weeks of work.
Student applicants must be female, Canadian citizens or permanent residents, registered (at the time of application) as a full-time student in a bachelor's degree program in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field (mathematics or electrical engineering), and considering graduate studies in computer science or computer engineering. Students must have obtained, over the previous years of study, a cumulative average of at least B and must have completed at least two years of their bachelor's degree by May 2007. Students must also be full time.