Amount: $4,500. About: Offered by Society of Women Engineers, the Meredith Thoms Memorial Scholarship is a $4,500 award to support women pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in engineering, engineering technology, and fields related to engineering. Applicants must be a sophomores, Juniors and Seniors are eligible; must identify as a woman; be studying engineering or computer science full time at the collegiate level in the upcoming academic year or are a re-entry student; incoming collegiate freshman through graduate student; studying full-time (exceptions made for reentry/nontraditional students); students who are current SWE Collegiate or SWE Next members; must be planning to attend a school with ABET-accredited programs; undergraduate and community college applicants must be planning to study an ABET-accredited program in engineering, technology, or computing in the upcoming academic year; masters and PhD candidates must be enrolled or accepted at a school with ABET-accredited programs in engineering, computing, or technology; have a high school GPA above 3.5 or a university GPA above 3.0. 4 awards are made annually.
Eligible Grade Levels: Graduate Student, College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior, Community College Student, High School Senior
Eligible Majors: Computer Science
Residency Requirement: No residency requirement
Minimum GPA: No GPA requirement
Deadline: January 31. Please note that scholarship deadlines often change, so make sure to check the scholarship sponsor’s website for up-to-date deadlines.