The STEM females who are engaged in the ROTC program and serving their nations have an excellent opportunity to apply for the Colonel Kathleen Swacina Scholarship. The program is being conducted by the AFCEA in honour of COL Kathleen Swacina.
The award is designed to support and motivate female students for their college expenses. The recipients will be able to accomplish their dreams and goals without facing any kind of financial hurdles in their way.
AFCEA is a member-based, non-profit association for professionals. It focuses on cyber, command, control, communications, computers and intelligence to address national and international security challenges.
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Who May Eligible?
To eligible, the students must meet up with the below criteria:
- Must be a member of the U.S. Armed Forces or enrolled in an ROTC program; an honourably discharged veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces; or a direct descendant of an AFCEA member or an honourably discharged member of the Armed Forces.
- Must be enrolled as a full-time college/university student at an accredited institution in the state of Georgia, including community colleges.
- Undergraduate students must be at the sophomore or junior level.
- Graduate students must have completed at least two courses but not graduating in the current academic year.
- Must maintain an overall 2.8 GPA.
- Must be majoring in a STEM-related area of study in support of the mission of AFCEA.
How to Apply
The eligible female candidates can enter the scholarship program by providing their required details through an online scholarship form.
Supporting Documents
- Must be including short-answer questions, educational and career plans, and financial need. Also, the applicant may describe any challenges (i.e. personal, physical, psychological, and educational) that she has had to overcome to get to this point in her academic career.
- Must mention an official college transcript with completed courses and grades including grades from the fall 2019 semester.
- Two letters of recommendation, at least one of which must be from a professor in the student’s STEM major field of study.
- A statement explaining how the applicant meets the qualifying criteria of U.S. armed forces or AFCEA affiliation.
Benefits
The scholarship will be rewarded to one female college student of amount $1,000 to be applied toward her ongoing higher-level academic education at an accredited four-year school.
Application Deadline
The application deadline to provide your credentials is May 31, 2020.
