FIRST Robotics Scholarship

Harvey Mudd College packages one $27,183 scholarship, renewable for up to four years, to a student who has participated in a FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) in high school or FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). Top candidates will have assumed some kind of leadership role on their team. The leadership role should be able to express how their participation has positively impacted their interest in the STEM fields.

The scholarship will be automatically renewed at the end of a student’s first year. It will be renewed thereafter, provided the student maintains a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA at the end of the student’s second and third years. Renewal of the award is contingent upon eight consecutive semesters of full-time enrollment, with the exception of study abroad or an approved leave of absence.

To apply for the scholarship, submit the online FIRST Robotics Scholarship Application by February 1. You must log in to the HMC Applicant Hub to access and submit this form, which requires that we have received your first-year application.

Required Scholarship Statement

Please describe your participation in FIRST Robotics as well as how FIRST has helped shape your interest in STEM. Given Harvey Mudd’s emphasis on collaboration rather than competition, we are interested in how your view of teamwork was affected by this experience.

• Limit your response to 550 words.
• Scholarship applications are read alongside your first-year application and not separately. Therefore, you can assume that the scholarship reader will have also read your other essays. It is not necessary to include the same information in both unless you choose to do so.