FIRST Scholarships

[Li Jianliang]

I'm curious about who on the CD forums have applied to and/or gotten any of the scholarships offered through FIRST. If you have, can you please post which scholarship(s) you've applied to and have received word on notification or not?

I've also heard that scholarship winners are announced at the Championship, but the list is slow to be posted on the FIRST website. My team won't be attending the national competition this year, so can someone please post [some of] the scholarship winners as they become available? Thanks. ^_^

...Yeah, there is one scholarship that I applied to and haven't heard anything from the college about... It's a major component in my deciding which college to attend, so I'm really hoping to get a award/denial notification within this week.

[Melissa Nute]

When I received my FIRST scholarship two years ago, I was notified about two weeks before Championships. After championships, the list is posted on the usfirst.org site usually.

[Tim Baird]

When I received the WPI scholarship in 2000, Woodie announced it during opening ceremonies on the saturday of nats.

It was pretty much the perfect way to start one of the best days of my life.

[Elyse Holguin]

When I recieved mine in '03, I found out right after ship day.. so I wet from extreme loss of stress to more adrenaline ever in about 5 seconds.

[Alexander McGee]

I got mine to Kettering about a week before Nats, and Bob Nichols gave a formal presentation at the competition. Defineately the only way I have been able to afford KU without student loans.

[Greg Marra]

I have won the Olin Scholarship this year. While I found out from Olin College before FIRST, I received an e-mail from FIRST congratulating me on winning a FIRST Scholarship about a week ago. The e-mail didn't say which scholarship I had won. I received a follow-up inviting me to a couple things for scholarship winners at the Championships.

Good luck!

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

I have won the Olin Scholarship this year. While I found out from Olin College before FIRST, I received an e-mail from FIRST congratulating me on winning a FIRST Scholarship about a week ago. The e-mail didn't say which scholarship I had won. I received a follow-up inviting me to a couple things for scholarship winners at the Championships.

Good luck!

Woah, going to Olin? VERY VERY NICE. Say hi to Gui for me there

I got the UD FIRST scholarship and I'll be manning the table on Friday for a bit for anyone who wants to ask me questions.

I didn't find out till after Champs.

[aallen88]

I found out I got the U Hartford scholarship through FIRST a month or two ago.

[musicgal]

yeah, Purdue called me around a month ago about my scholarship.

[Master Dictator]

eek! not cool! I applied for the Drexel scholarship this year and haven heard anything reguarding it. I hope they haven announced it yet. that would be bad.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Master Dictator

eek! not cool! I applied for the Drexel scholarship this year and haven heard anything reguarding it. I hope they haven announced it yet. that would be bad.

Are you a junior

[Master Dictator]

yes.

Believe it or not all of the rest of our robotics team this year got accepted to Drexel, all 6 of them. One of the kids though changed his mind and is going to UPenn. So next year it will just be me on the team and that would be awsome if I got accepted now so its a lot less pressure off of me during senior year.

[wafflesk]

I applied and recieved the FIRST Scholarship from Temple University. I was about 4 weeks late on getting my papers in due to regionals and such but luckily they accepted it and i found out from a Professor on Saturday that i got the scholarship. He had asked me if i had gotten anything in the mail and i said no and he said "well you will be recieving something from us and FIRST, congratulations" i was very happy to hear this great news considerign my hopes were not that high.

[blue_crew]

i found out i won one of the uc davis scholarships when i checked my financial aid package online. and i was presently surprised!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I won one of the FIRST RIT scholarships. Not sure if I am going there though.