Subject: Thank you — Together we raised $16,750 for SciPy Financial Aid

Friends,

When I put this workshop together, I had a modest hope: that a roomful of curious people could do something meaningful for the SciPy community while learning how to work with AI coding agents. You exceeded every expectation I had.

Together, we raised $16,750 for SciPy 2026 Financial Aid — enough to send 7 scholarship recipients to SciPy. Seven people who otherwise might not have been in the room will now be there, learning, contributing, and bringing what they pick up back to their own communities. That is real, tangible impact, and it happened because you showed up and gave.

I want to name you, because you deserve to be named. Every one of you made this possible:

• Balaji Goparaju

• Katherine Cheng

• Eddie Janowicz

• Michael Sterling

• Xue Zong

• Clayton Springer

• Zwelithini Tunyiswa

• Varun Shivashankar

• Marcus Noelke

• Manuel Jiménez Zaragoza

• Hui Xin Ng

• Yuliya Voskobiynyk

• Roman Kurilov

• Chandru Ravindran

And to those of you who donated directly to NumFOCUS outside the workshop signup — we may not have your names in front of us, but your contributions are counted in that total, and we're grateful for you too.

The student-rate donations meant a lot. Several of you gave at the student rate, and that kind of participation — giving what you can as a student to lift up fellow students — is exactly the spirit SciPy is built on.

Thank you, all of you. Whether you gave a little or a lot, whether you came to learn or to support, you made it possible for seven people to experience SciPy this year. We hope our paths cross!

With gratitude,
Eric Ma & Nadia Tahiri
Financial Aid Co-Chairs, SciPy 2026