Thread: NASA scholarship: White males need not apply............

This really, really irks me...our tax dollars fund NASA and they have these really good scholarships and paid internship programs for America's best and brightest science and engineering students ...but yet choose to limit the awards to those that are of a certain race/ethnicity/gender or disability...thereby excluding any deserving, highly accomplished white male students.



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Attention undergraduate students studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics: you have the opportunity to apply for a program that may provide a scholarship covering up to half of your annual college tuition, along with a paid internship opportunity with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). But you only have until Feb. 2, 2009, so get going now!

Known as the Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) program, this scholarship is open nationally to all students, but is particularly focused on students from underserved and underrepresented groups pursuing these fields of study, including women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and people with disabilities.

To be eligible for the scholarships, undergraduate students must be pursuing careers in the fields of; science, technology, engineering or math, be college freshmen, sophomores or juniors, have U.S citizenship and reside in the U.S., have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least a 3.0 on a 4.0 grading scale, and be enrolled as full-time students during the 2009-2010 school year.

Those students who meet the criteria and are accepted will receive a one-year scholarship that will cover up to half their tuition and fees, equaling a maximum of $10,000 per academic year limit. They will also receive additional support from the MUST Professional and Academic Support System (PASS), which provides students with online communities and professional leadership and development training. Also included is a $6,000 stipend to participate in a 10-week summer NASA internship program that also includes a transportation and location allowance of up to $1,000.

As long as students continue to meet the requirements of the program they will be able to renew the scholarship up until their junior year. The application deadline for the MUST program is Feb. 2, 2009. For more details on how to apply go to www.nasa.gov/education/must.

NASA funds the MUST scholarship in conjunction with the Hispanic College Fund, the United Negro College Fund Special Programs, and the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers.

100 students received MUST scholarships in the 2008-2009 academic year.

No wonder they keep killing our Astronauts.

Originally Posted by legalatina

Known as the Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) program, this scholarship is open nationally to all students, but is particularly focused on students from underserved and underrepresented groups pursuing these fields of study, including women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and people with disabilities.

No ifs ands or buts, if you were born in the US you are a "Native American", no questions asked. If they ask what "tribe" you are from, tell them that you are doing a geneology, and as far as you know you "come from one of the many great races that built this country and obey its laws." It is time to shut down the government race racket once and for all.