George Epstein Scholarship Award
The George Epstein Scholarship award was established in 1984 as a tribute to his many contributions to plastics both commercially and educationally. Since inception, the Southern California SPE Section has awarder over $33,000.00 in scholarships. The award is open to Son/Daughter or Grandsons/Granddaughters of a member or a current student member in good standing of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Southern California Section.
Qualifications:
1) Son/Daughter or Grandsons/Granddaughters of a member or a current student member
in good standing of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Southern California Section.
2) Applicants must have a demonstrated or expressed interest in the plastics industry.
3) An Applicant must be in good academic standing at his/hers school.
4) High School graduating senior accepted to a University or Jr. College.
5) Matriculating undergraduate student at a University College or Jr. College.
6) Matriculating graduate student at a University College.
Applications must include the following minimum information:
Name and relationship to the member of SPE
Address, phone number and email address (if available)
Institution attending and Student ID number
GPA, SAT, Major, Goals, Awards, Clubs, Activities, Achievements, Hobbies
Include any additional information that would assist the selection committee.
Late applications and those that do not include the above information as a minimum will not be considered.
$250 & $500 scholarships are available and will be awarded based on the above criteria and Scholarship Committee evaluation of the effort put into the application, format, grammar, spelling, etc., the applicants ability to express him/herself in writing and subjective evaluation of applicants activities in/out of school and awards and achievements. SoCal SPE reserves the right not to award a scholarship in a given year if it so chooses.
Entry Deadline: April 15 of each year
Awards are given out at our annual Social and Awards Luncheon held in May
Additional scholarships are available through The SPE Foundation Scholarship Program.
