Supported by each other and the G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Scholarship, sibling duo Jack and Jacklyn Ly are thriving at Georgia Tech without the worry of debt.
Tech Promise Scholarship Helps Student Siblings From Camilla, Georgia
Supported by each other and the G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Scholarship, sibling duo Jack and Jacklyn Ly are thriving at Georgia Tech without the worry of debt.
Supported by the G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Scholarship, pre-health biomedical engineering major Bobby Patel is learning how to create a future with better health outcomes for children.
The need-based Tech Promise Scholarship provides an opportunity to pursue a debt-free Georgia Tech degree for qualifying Georgia residents.
When Adonis McCrary walked into Georgia Tech’s Office of Undergraduate Admission in March 2025, he was expecting to drop off some paperwork. Instead, he left with his acceptance letter, hand-delivered to him by the Undergraduate Admission team.
In August, the Office of Scholar Programs welcomed a new G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Scholars Program cohort to Georgia Tech. Tech Promise, Tech’s need-based scholarship program, makes it possible for qualifying Georgia students from low-income households to earn a debt-free degree at Tech.
This fall, 70 students joined the Stamps President’s Scholars and Gold Scholars Programs, two merit-based scholarships at Georgia Tech.
Among them, two students share how they’re building skills to help them engineer better systems for humans, from rural Alaska to across the globe.
On April 4 and 5, the Office of Scholar Programs hosted 142 admitted first-year students for Stamps Scholars Weekend at Georgia Tech. A portion of the weekend involved interviews as part of the final selection process for the Stamps President’s Scholarship and the Gold Scholarship programs. These scholarships are awarded to the top 1-2% of each admitted first-year class.
The moment Giuli Capparelli Sanabria received the G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Scholarship, Georgia Tech’s need-based scholarship, is one that she still gets emotional over nearly two years later.
Now, as a second-year biology major at Tech, Capparelli Sanabria focuses on extending the gratitude to others as she focuses on her dreams of becoming a veterinarian.
By the time JahWill Fannings, a fourth-year business administration major from West Point, Georgia, reached his senior year of high school, he had already founded a music production company, Jah Studios, and set a laser focus on obtaining a Georgia Tech education.
As a NASA Pathways intern, Gates Scholar, and G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Scholar, J’Avani Stinson has devoted himself to the tenets of progress and service through his research, academics, and extracurriculars. Fueled by a lifelong love of science and devotion to helping others, Stinson hopes to use the generosities afforded to him to continue improving society.
James Shin, an electrical engineering major and Georgia Tech Stamps President’s Scholar from Hoschton, Georgia, has received a 2025 Marshall Scholarship.