Bomgar scholarships available to CSE and ECE students
September 13, 2013
STARKVILLE, Miss.—The big orange Bomgar bus parked outside Mississippi State University’s Colvard Student Union Friday, Sept. 6, bringing with it scholarship opportunities for computer-focused students.
Stopping at the Starkville campus as part of a 27 city tour, the company announced it will award five $1,600 scholarships to Bagley College of Engineering students in computer science, software engineering or computer engineering. The application deadline is Sept. 30.
The scholarship recipients will be announced during an October open house at the new Bomgar office in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park.
Donna Reese, head of the computer science and engineering department, said the scholarships are a way to encourage more students to pursue computing degrees. They also help make students aware of Bomgar’s work and its employment opportunities. The company has a history of hiring Mississippi State graduates.
“They come regularly to recruit,” Reese said. “They are a small company so they are looking for ways to get the Bomgar name in front of students early in their academic careers so that they will consider it when they are looking for jobs after graduation.”
In addition to the scholarships, Bomgar will also help send female students to Minneapolis for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in October. The company sent four students from Mississippi State to the conference in Baltimore last year.
Bomgar has also donated $2,000 to the computer science and engineering department to support the department’s diversity and faculty enrichment programs.
Founded in 2003, Bomgar Corp. provides remote support software that allows its clients to troubleshoot software, hardware and access problems across multiple platforms from anywhere in the world. The company is named for founder Joel Bomgar, a Jackson, Miss., native, and currently serves more than 7,500 corporate customers in 65 countries.
For more information about Bomgar, visit the company’s website www.beyondtrust.com.
By: Mary Kate McGowan