The Petaluma Area Pilots Association is offering a scholarship for aviation-related studies that is designed to draw candidates from the Petaluma area. The amount of funds available each year will be determined by the Executive Board of the Association.
The Scholarship is open to those students interested in furthering their aviation education or others interested in Aviation careers, and that reside or have parents that reside in the Sonoma/Marin County area.
Applicants shall be taking or planning on taking aviation-related training for the purpose of obtaining their private pilot’s license, of upgrading their existing license, continuing their aviation-related education at a two-or four-year college, or pursuing an aviation- related education through an accredited aviation trade school.
Applicants shall submit a five hundred word written essay outlining his or her plans for a career in aviation and some background on their interest in aviation. Subsequently, each applicant shall also attend a personal interview with the Scholarship Committee at a time and place of mutual agreement.
Applicants who are full time students shall have maintained at least a 2.5 grade point average for the last two years of their high school education. They shall furnish a high school transcript with their application. Applicants who are full-time college students shall have maintained at least a 2.5 grade point average during their college studies, and shall furnish a college transcript with their application.
Each applicant shall supply the name of an educational institution or flight school to which award funds would be directed on their behalf.
Final selection of applicants shall be based on a maximum 9 point system in the following areas: grades (3.5 minimum), current classroom enrollment in aviation courses, veteran status, post High School education level, extra curricular activities, ground school completion , previous solo, continuing flight training, and continuing academic education
Applications shall be due by April 15 and the scholarship shall be awarded in June. Completed applications shall be mailed to: Petaluma Area Pilots Association, Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 654, Petaluma, CA 94953
All applicants, whether or not a scholarship is awarded, are eligible to re-apply and receive a scholarship for a maximum of three successive years.
