Scholarships for Students

Deadline: No deadline - limited to availability of funds

Award: Amount awarded varies and is eligible for BTECH tuition, fees, and required Bookstore purchases

Eligibility Requirements

• Eligible certificate program(s):
  • Automated Manufacturing
• Preference will be given to racial or ethnic minority, but not required
• Preference will be given to first generation college students
• Must have financial need

Deadline: No deadline - limited to availability of funds

Award: Starting award of $1,000, BTECH tuition, fees, and required Bookstore purchases

Eligibility Requirements

• Currently enrolled in or have a confirmed start date in the Machining Technology program at Bridgerland Technical College
• Recipient selected on the basis of merit with emphasis on student’s aptitude and motivation to successfully complete training
• Scholarship may be renewed so long as recipient continues to demonstrate progress at a motivated rate
• Recipient must maintain satisfactory progress and attendance
• Must maintain minimum enrollment of 15 hours per week
• Must certify lawful presence in the US

About

The Gene Haas Foundation offers scholarships that help build skills within the machining industry. In 1999 Gene Haas founded the Gene Haas Foundation. Growing up with a strong social conscience instilled by his family, Haas initially formed the foundation to fund the needs of the local community. 

Haas is the owner of Haas Automation, Inc., America's leading builder of CNC machine tools, which he started in 1983. Haas Automation is now a billion-dollar company and the largest machine tool manufacturer in the United States. This extraordinary growth has all come in an era when American's were being told that the United States doesn't manufacture anything anymore. Those perceptions and decisions made in our education system regarding vocational education have led to dire statistics. A recent report called The Skills Gap in U.S. Manufacturing 2015 and Beyond projects that, "Over the next decade, nearly three and a half million manufacturing jobs will likely need to be filled, and the skills gap is expected to result in 2 million of those jobs going unfilled."

Gene's commitment to the importance of US manufacturing has incited him to grow his personal foundation and direct his foundation board to focus on manufacturing education in the form of scholarships for machinist training.

Deadline: No deadline - limited to availability of funds

Award: Amount awarded varies and is eligible for BTECH tuition, fees, and required Bookstore purchases

Eligibility Requirements

• Any certificate program
• Recipient must maintain satisfactory progress and attendance
• Must certify lawful presence in the US

Deadline: No deadline - limited to availability of funds

Award: Amount awarded varies and is eligible for BTECH tuition, fees, and required Bookstore purchases

Eligibility Requirements

• Any certificate program
• Must be a single parent
• Must have financial need
• Recipient must maintain satisfactory progress and attendance
• Must certify lawful presence in the US

Deadline: May 3, 2019 (To ensure an active application, apply on or after Nov. 1)

Award: $461, BTECH tuition, fees, and required Bookstore purchases

Eligibility Requirements

• High school senior who will graduate from high school in 2019 and has plans to enroll in a construction-related certificate program at Bridgerland Technical College immediately following high school graduation
• Demonstrating quality job skills, attention to detail, and an eye for what looks good and what does not
• Recipient will be selected on the basis of construction-related merit and financial need
• Recipient must provide a Scholarship Progress Report Instructor Evaluation - the Scholarship Office will request this information from finalists.
• Emphasis given to student who has risen above life’s challenges and demonstrates potential to triumph regardless of academic barriers
• Recipient must maintain satisfactory progress and attendance
• Applicant must certify lawful presence in the US

About
David Wayne Warner had a great love of woodworking. For many years he was able to support his growing family as a millwright. Over the years he enjoyed tinkering in his wood shop. It was a way for him to relax, think, and of course, create. As a youth in junior high school, David started learning how to turn lamps. This was something he would return to as he aged. When he retired, there was a need to have a hobby that would keep him busy. In his early 80's he began turning lamps again and sharing them with family, neighbors, and friends.

He used his gift as a talented woodworker to bring joy to others as well as to better his own circumstance. It would please him very much to feel that in some small way, he helped better the life of another. This scholarship is provided by family and friends off David Wayne Warner with the hope that the recipient of this scholarship be instrumental in seeing that jobs get done with the quality expected and that his or her work ethic, attention to detail, and an eye for what looks good and what does not, is second to none.

Eligibility Requirements

• Eligible certificate programs:
  • Heavy Equipment Operator
  • Heavy Equipment Operator/CDL

Eligibility Requirements

• Any certificate program
• Must be a single parent
• Must have financial need