Future engineers get boost from ASME members

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

High school students who won a $5,000 scholarship and will likely go on to become mechanical engineers got a boost toward their careers from the seven ASME members who nominated them for the honor.

The scholarship winners were announced at the final competition of the FIRST championship in April.

Each of the nominations by Anne Bergeron, Lizz E. Jackson, Daniel K. Kaspari, Rebecca King, Jacob Mazotas, Wayne Morton and Kent C. Stolley resulted in their nominee being selected to receive an ASME-ASME Auxiliary FIRST Clarke Scholarship.

Each of the nominators have been involved with FIRST. All are working engineers with the exception of Bergeron, who is a student at Georgia Institute of Technology. As with each of the six other scholarship winners, her nominee plans to study mechanical engineering in the fall.

This is the first year that funds from the Clarke endowment have been awarded to individual students.

The purpose of the scholarships is to recognize and reward students whose FIRST experience has inspired an interest in pursuing an engineering career.

ASME-ASME Auxiliary FIRST Clarke Scholarships are awarded to high school seniors who are active on a FIRST team and have been nominated by an ASME member, ASME Auxiliary member, or an ASME student member active with FIRST.

The award will be for the first year of study (non-renewable) at an accredited mechanical engineering or mechanical engineering technology program.

For more details, visit the ASME-ASME Auxiliary FIRST Clarke Scholarship Page at www.asme.org/education/precollege/first/firstscholarship.htm.

 

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