ASA Scholarship

2010 Scholarship Applications

2010 Scholarship Recipients

ASA has just announced the 2010 Scholarship awards.  Congratulations to Brian Thomas Weinstein from Case School of Engineering in Cleveland, Ohio who is awarded the Edward O’Connor scholarship, and Jeff Mayfield from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Memphis campus, Tennessee who is awarded the Rockwell Collins Scholarship.  We are in the process of arranging the scholarship presentation ceremonies.

We thank all the very worthy applicants for applying and encourage them  to continue to pursue an engineering degree. While you have not won the scholarship this year, you are on the way to achieving an exciting career that will transform our world.

We are working on a revised application process for next year’s scholarship application so please check back if you are considering applying for 2011.

Past Recipients

ASA’s Scholarship Program

An integral part of the mission of the Aerospace States Association
(ASA) is to:

“… support and develop initiatives that significantly enhance student and teacher education in space and aeronautics.”

In light of that component of the mission statement, ASA has established two scholarships with terms and conditions as follows:

• A $1,500 ASA scholarship, to be competed for, and awarded annually to up to two students pursuing an aerospace-related education.
• The scholarship(s) shall be available each year, and awarded to students who have residence in a dues-paying ASA member state in the scholarship calendar year.
• The Education Committee of ASA will administer the scholarship competition.
• The ASA delegate/alternate from each member state shall publicize the scholarship through the state’s aerospace-related institutions of higher learning, career centers, and/or other appropriate entities.
• Candidates must submit the ASA application for consideration for the scholarship through their state’s ASA delegate or alternate.
• Recipients of the scholarship need not attend an institution in the same state as their permanent residence, but they must apply through the ASA delegate/alternate in the state which they hold permanent residence.
• The candidate’s application for the scholarship shall include community-related activities, school-related activities, grade point average and field of study. An academic-based, personal letter of recommendation shall accompany the application. These documents shall be sent to the ASA Education Committee Chair at the address on the application form for review.
• The applicant shall be, as a minimum, a second year technical or associate degree student, or have sophomore or junior status in a bachelor degree program.
• Scholarship candidate’s application should be submitted to the ASA Education Committee Chair by January 15 of each year.
• The scholarship would be made available for the Fall school term of the year under consideration.
• The Scholarship Committee, within the Education Committee will make the selection of the scholarship winner and present the name/credentials to the membership present at the spring quarterly meeting.
• The scholarship shall be awarded in the form of a check made out to the scholarship awardee/awardees appropriate school.
• ASA will provide assistance to the member state of the scholarship recipient, if requested, to publicize the scholarship.
• The ASA member state of the recipient shall consider staging a presentation of the scholarship in the recipient’s state with the presence of the ASA representative/organization and the Lt. Governor, where applicable.

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