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Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Scholarship 2023-2024

Status: Closed

The purpose of the Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) Scholarship, in partnership with ARDC, is to provide financial assistance to eligible American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate and graduate students enrolled full-time at an accredited institution and pursuing degrees with a focus in wireless engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data communications, networking, mechanical/material science, emergency management communications, mathematics, physics, or a major in a STEM or STEM-related discipline. Applicants must hold a current GPA of 3.0 or higher.

This program will award 15 scholarships in the amount of $10,000 per academic year. This opportunity is a need-based award.

REQUIREMENTS

Students must meet the following requirements to be considered for this scholarship:

  • Be an enrolled member or a descendant of a federally or state-recognized American Indian Tribe or Alaska Native group.
  • Be enrolled full-time at an accredited college or university pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree.
  • Be pursuing a degree with a focus in wireless engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data communications, networking, mechanical/material science, emergency management communications, mathematics, physics, or a major in a STEM or STEM-related discipline.
  • Possess an unweighted cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Questions:
Contact our Scholarship Operations team at Scholarships@NativeForward.org

My whole life I really didn’t think that was in the cards for me and Native Forward Scholars Fund believed in me and was able to provide me with the support and the community to be able to study what I wanted and also know that I had a place within the science world.

Mitchell Rose Bear Don’t Walk | Native Forward Alumna | Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, Crow Nation, Lone Pine Shoshone Paiute