In the Spring of 2022, the Carolinas Chapter of AEG will again be awarding an AEG Carolinas Scholarship to a deserving geosciences undergraduate student in North Carolina or South Carolina. Applications for the scholarship may be obtained at http://www.aegfoundation.org/funds/carolinas.php. The deadline for submitting the scholarship application is February 1, 2022, but we strongly encourage all interested students to start the application process now so they have time to pull together all the required information for the application prior to the submittal deadline. The amount of the scholarship for 2022 will be $3,500.
The AEG Carolinas Scholarship was established in 2015 with initial seed money in the amount of $10,000 from the AEG Carolinas Section (now the AEG Carolinas Chapter). The eligibility requirements for the scholarship are as follows:
- Student must be an undergraduate geoscience major enrolled in a school in North or South Carolina.
- Student must be an AEG Student Member (if they are not a student member, they can apply through the website – AEG student memberships are free.
- Student must provide academic transcripts.
- Student must provide an approximately 500-word essay that describes why they believe they deserve the scholarship and how they will use it (e.g., for tuition, field camp, books, etc.).
- The scholarship application must be completed on the AEG Foundation website (www.aegfoundation.org) by February 1 of each year.
The Carolinas Scholarship did not have any eligible applicants in 2021 and we really want to be able to give away our money. Please let your geoscience students know that this scholarship is available and that if they would like to receive $3,500 to help pay for their education, they should apply for the scholarship and they should start the process very soon so they aren’t scrambling to get it completed by the February 1 deadline.