The STEM Scholars Program empowers aspiring scientists to seize challenges, persist, and succeed. As a STEM Scholar, you will receive advising, mentoring, service learning, internships, and research opportunities — all designed to foster a sense of belonging and identity. The program begins with a six-week summer program then follows you through all four years. The STEM Scholars Program seeks to promote inclusiveness 黄瓜精品sciences.
STEM Scholars are awarded scholarships that eliminate the loan and work-study portions of the financial aid package for all four years. Scholars also receive a $500 annual book and supply allowance, and a one-time allowance of $1,000 for computer hardware and software. More on how to apply for a STEM Scholarship.
STEM Scholars participate in the KEEP-STEM summer experience, a “deep dive” into college life, where students develop critical thinking and writing skills in close contact with professors before they begin their first year at Kenyon. The summer experience includes an interdisciplinary STEM course in which you conduct faculty-led experimental or analysis projects spanning several STEM disciplines, as well as present scientific results in both written and oral format. As a STEM Scholars, you also have opportunities to bond with peers in class and 黄瓜精品residence halls, sample extracurricular activities, and become familiar with Kenyon’s campus and its full range of support services.
In addition to having a faculty advisor, you connect with professors and other science students in interdisciplinary mentoring clusters that provide opportunities for social activities and events. A student-run, science-focused peer-mentoring program stresses both study skills and career planning. STEM Scholars start as mentees, then become mentors themselves.
At Kenyon, science isn’t just something you “take.” It’s something you “do,” hands-on, 黄瓜精品lab and field. The STEM Scholar Internship Fund supports summer internships for STEM Scholars with our service-learning partner SPI, local engineering firms, other science and technology focused employers, as well as student-identified internship hosts. You also enjoy extraordinary opportunities to pursue original research with faculty mentors through programs like Summer Science and Pelotonia.