James Shin, an electrical engineering major and Georgia Tech Stamps President’s Scholar from Hoschton, Georgia, has received a 2025 Marshall Scholarship.
Georgia Tech Student Named Marshall Scholarship Recipient
James Shin, an electrical engineering major and Georgia Tech Stamps President’s Scholar from Hoschton, Georgia, has received a 2025 Marshall Scholarship.
This fall, 46 new Stamps President’s Scholars joined Georgia Tech’s campus. The Stamps President’s Scholars Program is a prestigious merit-based scholarship package for the top one percent of each admitted class, supported by the generous philanthropy of E. Roe Stamps IV.
The office, which is responsible for the stewardship of major scholarship programs at Georgia Tech, will update its name effective immediately. This change reflects the office’s ongoing efforts to bring scholarship programming to more students than ever before.
Tech Promise Scholar and Fulbright recipient Jason Sodikin will travel to Austria in the fall to teach English.
Enrollment Management’s Ashton Tomlin, senior assistant director of the Office of Special Scholarships at Georgia Tech, received the 2024 Academic Success and Advising (ASA) Award for her work with the Tech Promise Scholars program.
The past year saw multiple accolades and awards for students in the Stamps President’s Scholars Program at Georgia Tech. This merit-based scholarship program provides support and professional development for Tech students beginning in their first year.
The annual Stamps Scholars Weekend brought students and their families to campus to learn more about the Institute and participate in the conclusive round of interviews to identify Stamps President’s and Gold Scholars.
The Stamps President’s Scholars Program will add 10 spots to the prestigious program beginning in the 2024-25 academic year, thanks to generous philanthropy from E. Roe Stamps IV.
For Cameron Barnett, the G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Program was likely the only way she could attend Georgia Tech. Now freshly graduated with a debt-free degree, she reflects on her time at Tech and mentor relationship with professor and Tech Promise donor Bill Todd.
The 2023-24 academic year marked the first time the Georgia Tech Val-Sal Scholarship, a scholarship for eligible Georgia high school valedictorians and salutatorians, was awarded at Tech. Offered to 25 students for the inaugural year, the scholarship covers up to $5,000 a semester for those who may not be able to attend the Institute otherwise. Two Scholars reflect on their time at Tech so far and what brought them here.