2009 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.

 

For more information contact - John Szary, 714-974-3999 or email to jszary@aol.com

 

 

 

Entry Deadline: May 15, 2009

 

Additional scholarships are available through The SPE Foundation Scholarship Program.
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