Colonel Kathleen Swacina Scholarship

This award is for one female student excelling in a STEM field(s) of study!

Requirements

Applicants must be one of the following:

• A member of the U.S. Armed Forces
• Enrolled in an ROTC program
• an honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces
• a direct descendant of an AFCEA member
• an honorably discharged member of the Armed Forces

Applicants must be:

• Enrolled as a full-time student at an accredited institution attending schools in the states of:
  • Georgia
  • South Carolina
  • North Carolina
  • Florida
  • Alabama

Community college students are eligible if they plan to continue to a 4-year institution to complete their studies.

Undergraduate students must be at the sophomore or junior level.

Graduate students must have completed at least 2 courses but are not graduating in the current academic year.

Additional Requirements

In addition, the award recipient must:

• Maintain an overall 2.8 GPA
• Major in a STEM-related area of study in support of the mission of AFCEA

Qualifying STEM majors

Qualifying STEM majors related to the mission of AFCEA include:

• Biometry/Biometrics
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Forensics Science
• Computer Programming
• Computer Science
• Computer Systems
• Cybersecurity
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics Engineering
• Geospatial Science
• Information Science
• Information Technology
• Information Resource Management
• Intelligence
• Mathematics
• Network Engineering
• Network Security
• Operations Research
• Physics
• Robotics Engineering
• Robotics Technology
• Statistics
• Strategic Intelligence
• Telecommunications Engineering