Scholarships Available to Grandchildren of Indiana Veterans
Some scholarship programs recognize the service and patriotism of veterans through college scholarships available to their children and grandchildren. A scholarship can make a difference in whether a grandchild can afford to pursue educational dreams and goals. Indiana grandparents may find help for their grandchildren from a variety of sources. Veterans' scholarships may help students with a particular Indiana school or educational field, while other opportunities serve students across the United States.
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Indiana Undergraduate Institutions
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Grandchildren may apply for scholarships specific to the college or university where they have already started their studies or plan to enroll. For example, recipients of the Spencer Hayes Disabled American Veterans Scholarship must use the financial support to pay their expenses at Indiana University Kokomo. Applicants for the scholarship must be U.S. veterans themselves or veterans' family members such as spouses, children or grandchildren. The scholarship program requests applicant essays discussing "life associated with being a veteran or being a veteran." Each institution's financial aid office should be able to direct students from veterans' families to institution-specific opportunities.
Indiana Professional Schools
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Some scholarships may support grandchildren who attend professional schools in Indiana or who pursue training in particular fields. For example, the Dr. Milton W. and Ruth I. Roggenkamp Scholarship for Southern Indiana Medical Students specifically supports students at the Indiana University School of Medicine. To qualify, the medical student must be a veteran, the child of a wartime veteran or the grandchild of a wartime veteran. Graduate students should contact their own professional schools' financial-aid departments to request information regarding scholarships for veterans' descendants.
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Specific Military Conflicts
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Some scholarships provide financial aid to veterans of particular military conflicts, as well as to their descendants. For example, the Vietnam Veterans Association of America established the Mike Nash Memorial Scholarship Fund to help Vietnam veterans, their children and their grandchildren. VVA scholarship recipients may use the funds toward tuition and expenses at accredited postsecondary schools, colleges and universities, including institutions in Indiana. Each family should look for scholarships opportunities that reflect the family's own history of military service and identify relevant programs.
National Organizations
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National scholarships consider applicants from across the country. A successful Indiana applicant may use the scholarship to pay for college at any accredited college or university, regardless of the student's state of residence or the school's location. The AMVETS organization, for example, offers its National Scholarship Program to provide $4,000 of support over four years for each recipient. AMVETS seeks to provide opportunities for the children and grandchildren of veterans; the program aims to support veterans' descendants in the pursuit of their academic dreams. Grandchildren of veterans may also find financial aid through national programs encouraging civic participation and patriotism. The Veterans of Foreign Wars organization, for example, awards scholarships through its Voice of Democracy Program. Applicants do not have to be the grandchildren of veterans, though they may choose to touch on their families' experiences in their essays.
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