The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

I am almost in the same situation, I am currently a federal employee with USDA and I am going to have to resign to accept this scholarship. I really don't want to do that, so I am going to ask my sponsoring facility and the SPO if they would allow my agency to keep me on Leave Without Pay Status unt...

For those of you that have received the e-mail about security clearance, please share your major, sponsoring facility and whether you are a retention or recruitment candidate. I am going for a MS in Civil Engineering and my sponsoring facility is the Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, I wouldn...

Cool, send a private message (PM) here or e-mail me at jramcam@gmail.com to exchange contact info and coordinate.

I just hope it is either Major Specific or Sponsoring Facility Specific because I have not gotten any e-mails about security clearance. All e-mails I have received lately are related to Orientation.

It's going to be kind of rough to do something, we are booked all day monday and tuesday, the only night we get some time off is Wednesday after 5:00 PM since we leave on Thursday. Anyway, anybody from this group that would like to do something wednesday night just let me know and we can put somethi...

When you are in a BS/MS program once you fulfill all requirements to receive your bachelor's degree you can request a cash award increase, so you would be moving from 25K to 33K per year. You should check with the ASEE SMART Scholarship Team before you do anything though. If you graduate with a 3.0 ...

I was thinking about the orientation since it is coming soon and I thought that maybe some of you would like to do something after orientation hours, sightseeing, dining, etc. Send me a PM or reply to this message if you would like to do that. Anybody arriving to DC around noon?

Can you reproduce what the e-mail said?

I believe that the Orientation Information document states that you only need to submit your itinerary if you DID NOT use RESX to make your travel arrangements.

Same here, I am assuming that they will contact us again sometime around late June or early July to give us more information about Orientation.

In my case, not exactly, I did NOT request for any extra semesters of funding, I just requested to graduate in the fall instead of the summer in order to fulfill the summer internship requirement.

My request got approved, I got this e-mail at 11:40 AM: J, Your award adjustment request has been approved by the SMART Program Office and your award letter has been updated. Please submit this document next week. Thank you, The ASEE SMART Program Team c/o American Society for Engineering Education ...

That is exactly the response I got this afternoon, so I think we will be ok. I requested to change my degree completion date from August 2012 to December 2012 so I can accomodate for the summer internship requirement. I checked with both my SF and the SPO before submitting it and they both said it s...

If you have requested an award adjustment, please share your experience with that here. I requested one on 04/07/11 and I have not heard back from them.

Between the e-mail update that the SPO sent and Guest's post above I think most questions have been answered. I just need to add that you should sign under APPLICANT on the Declaration of Federal Employment (Form 306) not under APPOINTEE.

Yes, I did, I got the e-mail friday afternoon.

I vote for checking with ASEE first before creating a Facebook page, in the meantime we can use this forum as a point of contact between all selected candidates that want to participate. I started filling out all the forms today and I have many questions I am forwarding to ASEE and my SF POC, once I...

I just got the e-mail at 4:05 PM CST, here is the message: "Dear JR, Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have been awarded a scholarship under the Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation Program. Please go to https://smart.asee.org/award for information regarding you...

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Congrats to Jackie T!

I hope it is because they are busy putting the personalized notification e-mail packages together!

Visting? You pretty much live here, lol!

Here is an idea, since we can't do anything about the notifications, they will be sent whenever ASEE is ready, what about doing something that us candidates can benefit from. I would like to see people that were awarded the scholarship on previous years describe their whole application process like ...

Not to be picky, but I would be more interested in seeing major, type of degree, sponsoring facility, and school for those who get the e-mail.

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