Bio-Techne Scholarship Program
Bio-Techne has established a scholarship program to assist employees’ children who plan to continue their education in college, university, or vocational school programs.
Bio-Techne Scholarship Program
Bio-Techne has established a scholarship program to assist employees’ children who plan to continue their education in college, university, or vocational school programs.
The program is administered by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarships and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations, and individuals. Eligibility for individual programs is determined at the sole discretion of the sponsor, and eligible applications are reviewed by Scholarship America’s evaluation team.
Eligibility
Applicants to the Bio-Techne Scholarship Program must meet all of the following criteria:
- Be dependent children* (age 26 and under as of the application deadline) of a regular employee of Bio-Techne Corporation or one of its subsidiaries.
*Dependent children are defined as natural or legally adopted children or stepchildren living in the employee’s household or primarily supported by the employee. - Children of deceased employees are eligible provided that:
- the employee had last been employed at Bio-Techne;
- the employee had worked at Bio-Techne for a minimum of five continuous years and at least 10,000 work hours;
- when employed, the deceased employee’s children were dependent as defined above.
- Be high school seniors/students in their final year of upper or higher secondary school, graduates, CEGEP students, current technical or college/university undergraduate, or graduate level students.
- Plan to enroll in full-time undergraduate or graduate study at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school for the entire upcoming academic year.
Awards
If selected as a recipient, the student will receive a $5,000 award. Up to fifty (50) awards will be granted. Awards are not renewable, but students may reapply to the program each year they meet eligibility requirements.
Awards are for undergraduate and graduate study.
Notification
Applicants will be notified in July. Not all applicants to the program will be selected as recipients. Students may reapply to the program each year they meet eligibility requirements.
Notifications are sent via email. When setting up your account, avoid using a school or work email. Instead, use an active, personal email address that you will continue to have access to.
Please make sure to add studentsupport@scholarshipamerica.org as well as the program email address as safe senders in your email contact list.
Payment of Scholarships
Scholarship America processes scholarship payments on behalf of Bio-Techne. Award checks will be issued in U.S. currency. Recipients in the U.S. and Canada will receive payment in one installment in August. The check is mailed to each recipient’s home address and is made payable to the school for the student. Recipients outside the U.S. and Canada will be paid by wire transfer payable in one installment in September.
Parent employee of the recipient must be employed at the time checks are disbursed.
Selection of Recipients
Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of:
- Academic performance
- Demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community activities
- Work experience
- A statement of educational and career goals and objectives
- Unusual personal or family circumstances
Financial need is not considered.
Selection of recipients is made by Scholarship America. In no instance does any officer or employee of Bio-Techne. play a part in the selection. All applicants agree to accept the decision as final.
Requirements
As part of your application, you must upload the following:
- A current, complete transcript of grades. Grade reports are not accepted. Transcripts must display:
- Student name
- School name
- Grades
- Credit hours for each course and term in which each course was taken.
NOTE: If you are providing SAT or ACT test scores, and those scores are not listed on your high school transcript, you will need to upload a copy of your test score report(s) separately. If you are uploading a college transcript, those scores are not required.
Your application is not complete unless all required materials are submitted electronically.
