The Office of Scholar Programs manages the Stamps President’s Scholars Program, the Gold Scholars Program, and the G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Program. Collectively, the office manages merit- and need-based scholarships for 500 students at Georgia Tech. Below are stories from the office and the scholars within the three programs.
Recent News
- Stamps Scholars Weekend Brings Recognition for Top Incoming Students 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.
- How Tech Promise Helps Scholar Giuli Pursue Vet Med DreamsThe 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.
- The Beat of a Promise: Tech Promise Scholar JahWill Bridges Music and TechBy 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.
- Fueled by Family, Driven by Discovery: J’Avani’s Path to NASA, ResearchAs 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.
- Georgia Tech Student Named Marshall Scholarship RecipientJames Shin, an electrical engineering major and Georgia Tech Stamps President’s Scholar from Hoschton, Georgia, has received a 2025 Marshall Scholarship.
- New Stamps President’s Scholars Join CampusThis 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.
- Transforming Support for Top Students: Office Renaming Reflects Expanding RoleThe 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 Receives Fulbright AwardTech Promise Scholar and Fulbright recipient Jason Sodikin will travel to Austria in the fall to teach English.
- Academic Success and Advising Announces CCG and Advising Award RecipientsEnrollment 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.
Stamps President’s Scholars Program
The Stamps President’s Scholars Program is a merit-based scholarship program that seeks to support the best and brightest students from across the nation and world to experience the Institute for their undergraduate studies.
G. Wayne Clough Tech Promise Program
The G. Wayne Clough Georgia Tech Promise Program provides a debt-free degree to qualifying students from low-income Georgia families, covering a student’s full cost of attendance.
Gold Scholars Program
The Gold Scholars Program is a merit-based scholarship for the top two percent of each admitted class. Recipients are selected based on their holistic excellence and adherence to the programs four pillars of scholarship, leadership, progress, and service.