Intel Scholarships
The Microchip Company that Started a Revolution
The name Intel is synonymous with IT. The computing world as we know it would not exist had Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore not been there to create the "world’s first" semiconductor in 1969, only one year after they founded Intel. Silicon was already the product most used for such inventions, but Intel really was the first to break ground in what is now casually known as Silicon Valley in California.
While Apple and Microsoft founders fiddled with computing gadgetry in garage workshops, Intel was already producing microprocessors with advanced instruction sets from factories in Asia. Intel, along with competitors Motorola, Texas Instruments, and IBM, collectively drove the rapid reinvention of new chips.
Intel Foundation
The Intel Foundation is the component of the larger Intel where corporate responsibility and philanthropic efforts are focused. Of primary interest to Intel is international education. The Foundation’s Higher Education Program delivers technical and monetary support to over 150 universities all over the world. Their program is an invitation-only opportunity for each institution to ramp up its tech programs, at the same time it turns out highly advanced scholars. Participating institutions often become regional hotspots for IT research and academia.
Of course this kind of philanthropy also is clearly focused on recruiting the next-gen research gurus that will be key to the future of Intel’s work in the microprocessor and semiconductor industry.
Scholarships Inspire Next-Gen Researchers
Intel’s scholarship programs are one crucial facet of the Higher Education Program:
- The Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship Program awards doctoral scholars whose work in advanced computing and/or engineering is exemplary. Eligible candidates must be engaged in research projects at participating institutions in the U.S.
- Intel’s Science Talent Search challenges high school seniors to produce cutting edge projects that demonstrate a highly evolved synthesis of both educational process and technical ability, primarily through mathematics and the sciences. This program has been an annual institution for pre-college brainiacs for well over half a century. Over 300 scholarships are awarded: first place winner earns a whopping $100,000 to go toward their college tuition; awards drop incrementally through tenth place, which makes off with $20,000. The remaining winners each get $1,000. Top 10 winners also take a brand new laptop to campus with them.
