2018 Dallas SWE Annie Colaço Scholarship Recipient – Collegiate Leaders
The Dallas Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is delighted to announce the recipient of the Annie Colaço Scholarship for local college students.
The scholarship is named in honor of Annie Colaço (1899-1991), the grandmother to SWE lifetime member Nandika D’Souza. Annie Colaço epitomized selfless service and lifelong learning, which is reflected in the SWE mission. Greeshma Nallapareddy has been selected for her personal achievements and leadership at the University of Texas Dallas. With this scholarship Dallas SWE wants to encourage collegiates to continue to provide selfless service and leadership to their SWE sections.
Dallas SWE is excited to recognize this outstanding SWE collegiate leaders and encourages each recipient to continue to be a SWE member upon graduation. The Society of Women Engineers, founded in 1950, is a not-for- profit educational and service organization. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.
There is no greater satisfaction than the feeling of success, of accomplishment, of completion, of having an impact. Dallas SWE hope that each recipient continues to look to the future, about the opportunity offered by success, and the responsibilities that success imposes. Dream! Imagine! Hope! Don’t fall short, because then you’ll never know what might have been.
Greeshma Nallapareddy – The University of Texas at Dallas
Greeshma just graduated from UTD this semester with a B.S. in Computer Science. She has been the President of the UTD SWE section for the last year and was previously the Vice President of Fundraising. She has been able to use her platform as a SWE member and officer to bring diverse companies to campus as well as take part in outreach events centered on young girls interested in STEM.