Aviation Scholarship

IAM Scholarship Competition

Scholarship Description

Scholarships to make possible the attainment of a Bachelor’s degree or a two-year vocational/technical certification are determined in a competition among eligible applicants that is judged by a special Selection Committee.

Awards to Children of Members are:

  • College – $1,000 per academic year. All awards are renewed each year until a Bachelor’s degree is obtained up to a maximum of four years.
  • Vocational/Technical School – $2,000 per year until certification is reached up to a maximum of two years

Eligibility Requirements

1. Applicant must either be an IAM member OR the son, daughter, stepchild, or legally adopted child of an IAM member or active retired IAM member.

A Member Applicant:
1. Must have two years of continuous good-standing membership through the closing date of the competition.
2. May apply either when entering college or vocational/technical school as a freshman or at a higher level with some college credits already completed.
3. May apply as a full-time or part-time student.

Child of a Member Applicant:
1. Must have one living parent with two years of continuous good-standing membership through the closing date of the competition. (You will be eligible if the parent member died after the son or daughter entered high school, and the parent had two years of “continuous good-standing membership” at the time of death.)
2. Must have a continuous good-standing membership” is understood to be a period of membership during which the member continuously paid monthly dues uninterrupted by withdrawal cards.
3. Must be planning to graduate high school during the winter or by the end of the spring of the current school year.
4. Must plan to take a regular college or vocational/technical program on a full-time basis, maintaining qualifying grades.

Application End Date

February 11, 2026

Phone

(301) 967-4708

Other scholarships from this sponsor

Female Applicant Preference

No

Scholarship Type

  • Education Tuition

Citizenship Requirements

  • United States (inc. US Territories)
  • Canada

Year of Need / Desired Program

  • Part 141 School
  • Part 147 School
  • College Freshman
  • College Sophomore
  • College Junior
  • College Senior
  • Master's Degree Program
  • Doctoral Degree Program

Scholarship Recurrence

  • Annual
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