Community College STEM Scholarships: Application Open!

The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is recruiting students to apply for its 2024–2025 VSGC Community College Scholarship program.

Since 1990, the VSGC has made 2,127 awards totaling over $8.9M to students at member colleges and universities. Each academic year, the VSGC awards approximately $320,000 in scholarships and fellowships to about 75 students.

Major goals of the VSGC include helping to produce the engineers and scientists of the future and diversifying the STEM workforce. Career opportunities in STEM and aerospace have greatly expanded; to encourage talented individuals to pursue STEM fields and research, the VSGC offers the following scholarship to community college students:

The Community College STEM Scholarship provides a one-year, nonrenewable award of $2,000 for students enrolled full time during the award period at one of Virginia’s community colleges. Students must be majoring in a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) field and be interested in pursuing a career that supports NASA’s mission. Click here to learn more!

Submitted by:
Latoya Garrison, Career Connection Coordinator, LGarrison@nvcc.edu