The Terry Ni (TN) Engineering Scholarship is solely funded by Yu-Hwa Terry Ni and Sun-Nain Nick Ni and is an extension of Ms. Ni’s former Funds for Restoration and Enhancement of Earth (FREE) Program Scholarship.
History of the Ni Scholarship Programs
From 2010 to 2012, the Ni’s offered the Family Scholarship through the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) for qualified high school seniors planning to pursue engineering studies.
In 2012, Terry Ni initiated the FREE scholarship program. From 2012 to 2020, she awarded 16 $2,000 FREE scholarships through the Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers (WSPE) and administered by the Engineers Foundation of Wisconsin (EFW). The FREE scholarships were awarded to high school students with outstanding performance and talents who showed interest in pursuing a major in engineering or natural science aimed at a career in the environmental field.
From 2021
The Terry Ni Engineering Scholarship
Building on the decade of scholarship awards, Ms. Ni developed the Terry Ni (TN) Engineering Scholarship program starting in 2021. The new TN Engineering Scholarship has expanded eligibility for qualified high school senior scholarship candidates.
The core mission of the TN Engineering Scholarship is to award merit-based scholarship funds to highly qualified students who have expressed sincere interest in traditional engineering disciplines as well as emerging engineering and technology fields that will improve the quality of human life such as renewable energy, alternative energy generation and storage, high-efficiency product design, applied bioscience, and aerospace.
The goal of the TN Scholarship is to encourage outstanding young people to be involved and choose engineering as their professional career with the vision to design, build, improve, and advance inventive technologies to improve peoples’ lives and thereby improve humanity’s long-term sustainability and well-being.
The TN Engineering Scholarship is offered through the WSPE and administered by the EFW, a 501(c) organization.
Scholarship Eligibility Criteria
We seek students with the following distinctive qualifications:
- Academic record of success in advanced mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics courses, balanced with English composition and literature
- Cumulative academic grade point average of 3.6 or greater
- With regard to the objective of a minimum composite ACT score of 32, the evaluation board members may use discretion to consider candidates with composite ACT scores less than 32 in cases where a candidate exhibits distinctive, compelling, and relevant additional qualifications such as, but not limited to, outstanding performance and demonstrated leadership in extra curricular activities and superior academic performance in relevant technical coursework that supports the expectation of successful engineering studies.
- Record of balanced extracurricular activities demonstrating interests in addition to academics
- Well-composed, articulate, one-page essay describing personal motives for pursuing engineering studies and their vision of future career goals
Summary of the TN Engineering Scholarship Features
1. One (1) to four (4) scholarships will be awarded each year based on the evaluation of information provided by qualified students in scholarship applications.
2. Each scholarship will be awarded at a minimum of $3,000.
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