My wife and I always stress the value of an advanced education to the younger set, especially since they will enter a business/technical world entirely different from the ones we worked in. Additionally, with the conditions of the current and likely the future economy, financial help will be almost a necessity to obtain a college education or advanced degrees. With that in mind, we are thinking of putting some funds into the AMA Scholarship Fund, but we need more info on the positives and any negatives of the program. Does anyone have any ideas - something we should consider before any donations? All ideas are welcome. Thanks, Lee

Hi Lee,

If you have not already done so, please take a look at the following link: http://www.modelaircraft.org/educati...olarships.aspx
This link will provide you information about the AMA Scholarship Program as well as a video on one of the recent recipients.

If you would like further information you can contact Gordon Schimmel. He is the Education Program Development and Outreach Specialist. His information will be sent to you via e-mail.

Thanks for your interest in supporting the AMA Scholarship Fund.

Backyardace, you must be a staff and/or a committee member of the program. One of the "negatives" of the program, IMO, is the 36 consecutive months requirement.

You may well correct me if I am wrong as I have not very well researched it, however I do believe that definition of the "3 years", so long in my memory, to a specific 36 consecutive months, is rather recent. I was prepping a grandson to try for that when some discussion came up concerning the 36 months vice a "3 year" item where the being a member for a nominal 3 years suddenly became "36 consecutive months".

In this day and age, 36 consecutive months for a teen-ager not living in the same house is, IMO, rather restrictive. There is word on the street, which street is a question, yet I have read something about the possibility that the new definition came about to assure certain young "insider" individuals would receive a jump-over other well qualified youngsters that, as so many do, rejoined in the Spring rather than the preceding Fall, and were not qualified because the definition of 3 years became 36 consecutive months. [sm=confused.gif]

Do you have any comments on that, or maybe I just dreamed it. [sm=sleeping.gif]