
Washington NASA Space Grant Community College Scholarship Program
The Washington NASA Space Grant Community College Transfer Scholarships are awarded to promising community college students planning to transfer to the UW to continue their studies in engineering, math or science. These competitive scholarships are based on academic achievement, personal essays, recommendations and future academic promise. Beginning 2008, community college transfer students who entered the University of Washington in Winter Quarter or Spring Quarter will also be eligible to apply for a Space Grant scholarship.
Amount: $1000-$5500
Application Deadline: March 22, 2008
For more information: www.waspacegrant.org/cctransf.html
Martin Achievement Scholarship Program
The Martin Family Foundation Established the Martin Achievement Scholarship program to fund students who have demonstrated signs of exceptional ability in art, humanities, music, science, and/or leadership at one of the fifteen community colleges located around the Puget Sound region. The program will select Martin Achievement Scholars early in their community college career and will fund, encourage and support their study and eventual transfer to the University of Washington-Seattle Campus.
Amount: $5,000 each academic year for tuition, books and supplies. Funding begins during the second and/or final year at the community college and will continue when the student transfers to UW. Applicants must be currently enrolled students at Bellevue, Cascadia, Edmonds , Everett , Grays Harbor, Green River, Highline, North Seattle, Olympic, Penninsula, Pierce, Seattle Central, Shoreline, South Seattle or Tacoma Community College pursuing their first baccalaureate degree.
Application Deadline: April 8, 2008
For more information: www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/scholar/scholarships/s/martinachievement
Martin Family Foundation Honors Scholarship Program
The Martin Family Foundation Honors Scholarship Program was established to enable community college students of exceptional ability and outstanding achievement to complete their baccalaureate degrees at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. Martin Scholars will join the Honors Program at the UW, and, depending on their choice of major, will become eligible to graduate with Departmental and/or University honors. Amount: Up to $18,000, a maximum of $6,000 per year subject to continuing high scholarship at the UW, award may be renewable each year for up to a total of three years of undergraduate support.
Application Deadline: July 8, 2008
For more information: www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/scholar/scholarships/s/martinfamily