EXTON, PA — Applications are now being accepted for the Catherine Oakes Memorial Leadership Scholarship for Women, an award presented by the SCTE Foundation that recognizes, rewards and provides educational opportunities for women who aspire to become leaders in cable engineering or operations.
The scholarship is open to all women who are members of SCTE•ISBE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and International Society of Broadband Experts). The $3,500 (US) scholarship is to be used toward registration in the Rising Leaders Program to be conducted by Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) in 2019.
The Oakes Scholarship was created to honour Catherine Oakes, senior vice-president of operations for SCTE•ISBE, who passed away suddenly in 2013. Oakes was a leading voice for diversity and inclusion in the cable engineering and operations workforce and championed the integration of women’s and diversity issues into the SCTE•ISBE Leadership Institute at Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth and the SCTE Foundation, the foundation said in a news release. She was instrumental in the creation of Women’s TechConnect, a mentoring program for women technologists that is a joint initiative of SCTE•ISBE and WICT, the SCTE Foundation said.
The Oakes Scholarship is funded entirely by donations earmarked specifically for it. Donations can be made at the Oakes Scholarship page on the SCTE Foundation website.
Oakes Scholarship applications will be reviewed by past recipients of the Women in Technology Award, which is presented annually by SCTE•ISBE, WICT and industry publication Cablefax. More information about the Oakes Scholarship and an application can be found here. The scholarship application deadline is Friday, Sept. 14, 2018.
