Scholarship Winners
General Information: The selection process typically takes one to two months following the close of the scholarship competition. It takes a lot of time to read all of your amazing essays! All completed applications will be reviewed by our judging committee who will select the finalists and winners. The decision of the judging committee is final. All winners will be contacted directly by both e-mail and regular postal mail.
Posting of Winners: We respect the privacy of our applicants. However, we do request that all winners permit us to post their names and winning essays. After all winners have been contacted, we will post the results on this page.
Fall 2024 Winner: Anna Hung
Spring 2024 Winner: Isabelle Scott
Fall 2023 Winner: Caroline Nguyen
Spring 2023 Winner: Faith Murphy
Fall 2022 Winner: Sam Sanders
Spring 2022 Winner: Seth Carpenter
Fall 2021 Winner: Mia Stillman
Spring 2021 Winner: Estella Gonzales
Anna Hung
2024 Scholarship Winner
Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
As an HVAC engineer, my dad was always fixing things, and I loved to help. I remember us fixing up his car together and playing catch in the backyard. But as I got older, he grew detached and moody, and our games together halted. I eventually learned why: he suffered from Glaucoma since youth and his vision was worsening. He stopped driving after accidentally driving me over a highway median. This and many failed eye surgeries left him bitter.
Learning to understand why my dad acted the way he did allowed me to reconnect with him. He told me about opportunities he couldn’t take as a kid because of his eyesight and pushed me to chase my dreams. I started wanting to become an engineer like him. I joined a research lab studying electrical vehicles, reminding me of how me and my dad worked on his car together, and how that same car nearly killed me.
My experiences growing up with a visually-impaired father taught me to see from others’ points of view and inspired me to work to use engineering to help people. I’ve recently committed to MIT and hope to graduate early, having two years of dual credits. I plan to join the ROTC and serve for a few years, before returning to school for a Masters/PhD. I see this scholarship opportunity as a chance to honor my father's legacy, further develop my skills, and one day make a meaningful impact by using engineering to benefit humanity.
Featured Winner
"Parasites, mental illness, and snails fascinate me, but not only in a biological sense—while I learn the classification of parasites, I also read folktales about them, predating their ‘scientific’ discovery; I study both the biological reasons behind mental illness, and how different societies perceive them; I observe the anatomy of the snail, understanding it through both the appropriate terminology and my drawings of its internal structures."
—Excerpt from the essay of Amy Y., who attends Clark University
Featured Winner
“I reviewed her work and told her that she had gotten the problem correct. A bright smile developed across her face. We had come so far from when I started tutoring Emilia just a year ago. I had never imagined that being a tutor would enhance my education in a way that lectures and textbooks could not. I learned the joy of giving, the satisfaction of seeing progress, and the fulfillment of working on a goal together.”
—Excerpt from the essay of Estella Gonzales