A³SFIT is sponsoring a Scholarship of $ 500.00 per year. This Scholarship is available to all A³SFIT members who have been in good standing for the previous two years and to all their direct family members. Board of Trustees members and their respective family members are not eligible to apply for this Scholarship.

The purpose of the Scholarship is to financially assist its recipient during a period of internship in a business enterprise in the USA or in Canada, or at the EPFL or ETHZ, or in the recipient’s presentation of a paper or a poster at a professional conference. The goal of A³SFIT in sponsoring this Scholarship is to encourage young people to pursue careers in science, technology and engineering fields.

The Scholarship grant process is initiated with a written "Request for Scholarship" submitted to the Board of Trustees of A³SFIT. The Board of Trustees has the exclusive right to select the recipient of the Scholarship, and may decide, at times, not to award a Scholarship in any year where no noteworthy requests are submitted. Non-disbursed Scholarship funds in any specific year shall be rolled over to the following calendar year.

The "Request for Scholarship" proposal should be a one-page document containing the following information:

• Name and address of the Requester, and if applicable his/her relationship to a named A³SFIT member in good standing.
• Intended use of the Scholarship funds.
• Only if applicable, the duration and location of the internship, including the name of the business enterprise or that of the EPFL/ETHZ contact.
• Only if applicable, the name and location of the conference where the Requester’s paper or poster is to be presented, as well as an abstract of the paper/poster.

In the event that a Scholarship is awarded to the Requester, he/she should send a 300-word abstract relating the experience(s) gained during the internship or the benefits derived from his/her paper or poster that was submitted at the conference.

All Requests for Scholarship should be submitted by September 30^th to the attention of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of A³SFIT,

c/o Ms. Clarissa Ferraris
6263 Dawn Day Drive
Columbia, MD 21045, USA

By December 15^th, the Board of Trustees will inform the Requester of the Board’s decision and selection.

The Scholarship funds granted to the Requester must be used during the following calendar year. If necessary, exceptions can be made at the sole discretion of the Board of Trustees.

Awardee

The winner of our A3SFIT Scholarship in 2004 was Mr. Yves Hofer, an ETHZ 1998 graduate in Architecture, who at the time was working toward a Master Degree in Film Directing at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in New York City. A check in the amount of US $500 was presented to Yves Hofer in New York City by our A3SFIT Treasurer Raymond Schaeffer. In accepting the award check from Raymond, Yves stated that the "A3SFIT scholarship contributed considerably to my tuition for the academic year 2003-2004 at the Tisch School of the Arts and therefore to my efforts in the pursuit of my feature film debut in the United States.