Steve A. Garban Grant-in-aid is awarded to one new first-year student intended to assist with room and board charges for two years, provided the student continues full-time enrollment at Penn State or Penn College, incurs on-campus room and board charges, and demonstrates academic success. Applicants must be a child of a full-time Penn State or Penn College technical service or staff employee, must be a first-year, full-time student at any Penn State campus or at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, must have demonstrated leadership and humanitarian qualities through extracurricular activities during high school, and must have achieved or show promise of achieving academic success. Dollar amounts will vary.
To be considered, students must submit a letter that includes all of the following: the student's name; the student's Penn State ID Number or Penn College ID Number; the parent's Penn State ID Number or Penn College ID Number; Penn State or Penn College staff employee's name and position; and a personal essay of no more than two typewritten pages that gives examples of the student's leadership, humanitarian, and academic merits.