Santa Cruz Sunrise Rotary Club - Youth Scholarships

Scholarships
 
Thank you for visiting the Rotary Club of Santa Cruz Sunrise's Youth Scholarship website
 
We are no longer accepting applications for 2025
 
Our scholarship committee is currently evaluating this year's applications.   The winners will be contacted directly and announce here soon.
 
 
The Rotary Club of Santa Cruz Sunrise
is pleased to announce its
2025 High School Youth Scholarship Program
 
Since its inception the Rotary Club of Santa Cruz Sunrise has granted more than $380,000 in scholarships to college-bound high school seniors graduating from Santa Cruz area schools.  This is a competitive program offering achievement and needs-based awards to students planning to attend 2-year and 4-year colleges.  Each scholarship is paid in annual increments for either 2 or 4 years and range from $700 per year to $1,000 per year.
 
We invite qualified students from our area high schools (Santa Cruz High School, Harbor High School, Soquel High School, Delta School at Cabrillo College, PCS, Kirby and others) to submit applications by this year's deadline of March 28, 2024.
 
To Apply:
  1. Read the Scholarship Overview
  2. Download the fillable PDF Scholarship Application.  We recommend that you also download and install the free Adobe PDF Reader™ (https://get.adobe.com/reader) to facilitate completing this fillable form.
  3. Follow the instructions included in the application and return the completed form and supporting documents by email to Scholarships@SantaCruzSunriseRotary.org.  Depending on the size of your email attachments, you may need to send the attachments in separate emails.
  4. To be considered for a needs-based scholarship, download and complete the fillable-PDF Parents Confidential Financial Statement and return it by email to Scholarships@SantaCruzSunriseRotary.org.
 
If you are unable to return your application and/or supporting documents by email, you may send them by US Post to:
Rotary Club of Santa Cruz Sunrise
Youth Scholarship Application, David Campbell
PO Box 7026
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
 
Applications must be received by Friday March 28, 2025 for consideration.
 
All applications and supporting documents will be treated confidentially.
 
If you have any questions, please contact David Campbell at (831) 476-2619 or Scholarships@SantaCruzSunriseRotary.org.