IEI Annual Scholarship

The Ivey Engineering $1,000 annual scholarship provides college and university students an opportunity to earn money to further their education.

Winner Payout and Announcement

The deadline for Ivey Engineering scholarship entries is annually on May 1. The winner’s name and photo will be published at the bottom of the scholarship contest page.

The winner will be notified by e-mail six to eight weeks after the deadline.

Scholarship entries will be carefully reviewed by a team of judges at Ivey Engineering.

The scholarship will be paid out in amounts of $1,000 (U.S.) to each winner in the form of a check that will be mailed directly to the college or university attended by the winning student.

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Eligibility Requirements

The requirements for eligible student entries are:

• You should presently be a senior in high school;
• Or be transitioning from high school to a college or university;
• Or be already enrolled as an undergraduate in a college or university inside the United States.
• You should be a legal U.S. citizen.
• Employees and their immediate family members of Ivey Engineering are not eligible to participate.
• Students with full academic scholarships are not eligible to enter.
• Past winners are not eligible to participate in the contest.
• Graduate students are not eligible to participate in the contest.

Scholarship Entry Requirements

Carefully research and compose an essay of 800 to 1,000 words on one of the following topics. The essay will be judged on content and creativity and should use correct grammar and punctuation. It must be your own work and not previously published or entered in other competitions.

We will allow the use of AI apps to assist in pre-writing your essay. This means you may use AI to generate an outline or subtopics and ideas for your essay, not an entire essay. All essays will be checked for the use of AI. If you use AI for pre-writing purposes, please provide details such as the prompts you provide to the AI app. If we find you did not provide accurate details of your use of AI, your essay will be disqualified. If you’re wondering whether or not to use AI for essay writing, check out this informative article.

Choose a topic below for your essay: (Third-party sites such as Fastweb may not have updated topics. Please use our list of topics.) Please check back in November for new essay prompts.

• Email your essay in Microsoft Word document or plain text format to scholarship@iveyengineering.com. Please use the subject line, “IEI 2025 Scholarship Contest,” on your e-mail. Only one entry per person will be permitted.
• Please specify your name, date of birth, contact telephone number, email address and mailing address. Your contact information will be held in confidence and will not be shared.
• Please indicate how you heard about the scholarship. (If you saw it advertised on another website, such as Fastweb, please provide the name).
• If you are under 18 years old, please provide a parent or guardian’s e-mail address.
• Include the name of the college or university and the mailing address of the financial aid office that you are presently attending or that you’ll be attending after high school. (College or university information must be included at time of application. If you have not applied or been accepted to a college yet, we suggest you wait and apply for the scholarship during the next round of applications.)
• Please attach a headshot photo of yourself in .JPG or .PNG format that is at least 300 pixels wide.
• If we don’t receive all requested information by the deadline or in the required format, your submission may be disqualified.