SanDisk To Award Up To $10,000 Per Student For STEM - Related Education

SanDisk To Award Up To $10,000 Per Student For STEM - Related Education Photo via http://uwire.com SanDisk Corporation, a Fortune 500 and SP 500 company, and global leader in portable flash storage technology, has developed an annual budget of $1.5 million to award scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students across the U.S. in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). According to the SanDisk Scholars Program website, The program awards scholarships of up to $10,000 per student to graduating high school seniors, community-college students, and students already enrolled in an engineering or computer science related course of study. The SanDisk Scholars Program awarded over $1 million in scholarships for the  2013-2014 year and included undergraduate and graduate students from 28 universities across 12 states, including the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Georgia Institute of Technology; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California.  Applicants are evaluated based upon, according to a press release, their prior academic achievements and meaningful levels of community engagement, as well as financial need. “SanDisk’s generous support offers Cal students pursuing a STEM-related degree critical resources to fulfill their academic goals, which may have otherwise not been possible,” said S. Shankar Sastry, Dean of the College of Engineering and Roy W. Carlson Professor, University of California, Berkeley in the above  press release. “STEM-related studies are a key element of UC Berkeley’s leading curriculum, and the SanDisk Scholars Program further enables us to offer these important fields of study to the innovators of tomorrow,” they said. Along with awarding scholarships to students in the U.S., SanDisk has also moved to include students from China and Japan. The program will award 30 scholarships per country to students in engineering and computer science programs attending the following universities: China: - Shanghai Jiaotong University - Xidian University - Zhejiang University Japan: - Nagoya University - Tohoku University - University of Tokyo “I am a materials science and engineering major, with an interest in becoming a doctor,” said Grace Tuyiringire, student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 2013-2014 scholarship recipient. “Thank you, SanDisk, for this opportunity. With this scholarship, I will be able to focus on my goal of becoming a MD and a bigger leader in the MIT community,” she said. The application runs from February 18, 2014 to April 30, 2014 and will be accepted from anywhere in the U.S. Additional requirements, applications and documents are available at https://aim.applyists.net/SanDisk.