
2024
- Objective for the We Scholarship – Attend Objective by the Sea in Maui, Hawaii
- Objective for the We 2.0 Scholarship – Attend OFTW 2.0 in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) Hacker Summer Camp Scholarship – DEF CON
- RIT Global Scholarship – funding to study abroad in Zagreb, Croatia for the 2024 Fall Semester
- RIT Honors Presidential Scholarship for Business Students – funding to pursue an MBA at RIT

2023
- SecTor Security Education Conference Toronto: Conference Scholarship for Students – funding to attend the conference in Toronto, Canada.
- Linux Foundation: RISC-V Summit Scholarship for Students – funding to attend the conference in Santa Clara, California.
- RIT: Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award – The highest academic distinction at the Rochester Institute of Technology. These scholars represent the top 1% of RIT’s student body, and roughly 1 or 2 students from each major receive it annually.
- WiCyS: Conference Scholarship for Students – funding to attend the international WiCyS conference in Denver, Colorado.
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2022
- Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation: Barry Goldwater Scholarship Nomination – one of four RIT students nominated for excellent academic research.
- Crowdstrike: Nextgen Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Scholarship – one of eight recipients
- (ISC)²: Information Security Scholarship for Women – one of ten recipients
- Raytheon Technologies and Society of Women Engineers: Academic Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in Intelligence & Space – one of four recipients
- Linux Foundation: Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship – funding to attend KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe
- Foundation for Information Technology Education: Betty Stevens-Frecknall National Scholarship – awarded annually to one university student pursuing an accredited degree program related to information technology.
- ShmooCon: Shmooze-A-Student Scholarship – one of thirty recipients receiving a free conference pass and a stipend for housing, food, and travel.
- WiCyS: Conference Scholarship for Speakers and Students – funding to attend and speak at the international WiCyS conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
- RIT
- Nathaniel Rochester Society Scholarship – awarded to one student annually who demonstrates exceptional leadership, community involvement, and participation in on and off-campus activities.
- Alfred L. and Ruby C. Davis Scholarship for Community Impact – one of twenty-four annual recipients
- Student Life Awards for 2022
- Dean’s List – Fall 2021 and Spring 2022
- Press: LNP, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022

2021
- The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation: Barry Goldwater Scholarship Nomination – one of four RIT students nominated for excellent academic research.
- WiCyS: Conference Scholarship for Speakers and Students – Funding to attend and speak at the international WiCyS conference in Denver, Colorado.
- Infosec: Accelerate Undergraduate Scholarship – one of three recipients
- Cyber Defense Magazine: Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship – funding for travel and lodging at Black Hat
- Executive Women’s Forum: Black Hat Conference Student Scholarship – one of fifty recipients
- (ISC)²: Information Security Scholarship for Undergraduates – one of twenty-one scholarship recipients
- United States Congress: United States Silver Congressional Award – recognized for obtaining over 200 hours in three categories: community service, physical fitness, and personal development
- RIT: Dean’s List – Spring 2021
- Press: LNP
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2020
- (ISC)²: Information Security Scholarship for Women – one of ten recipients
- RIT
- Five-Year Renewing Presidential Scholarship
- Honors Program – consists of the top three percent of incoming freshmen
- Dean’s List – Fall 2020
- Press: LNP
- Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS)
- Outstanding Community Service Designation – recognized for over 250 hours of service with FIRST Robotics, Habitat for Humanity, and Girl Scouts of the USA
- Science and Technology Departmental Award – given to one LCDS student annually
- Lancaster Junior League Nomination by Dr. Chelsea Pomponio and Mrs. Linda Campbell

2019
- University of Rochester: Xerox Award for Achievement in Information Technology – waived college application fees and at least $5,000 in merit scholarships annually.
- FIRST Technology Challenge: Dean’s List Finalist – one of two students from Pennsylvania selected to attend the FIRST Robotics World Championship
- National Merit Scholarship Corporation: National Merit Commended Scholar – placed in the top three percent of PSAT scorers.
- Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS): State Science Competition – one of the LCDS students who advanced to the state competition
- Press: LNP

Resources
If you know of any more, please email me!
Academic scholarships
Here are some resources for finding scholarships. If you are a security or computer science student, the names of the awards I have won (listed above) may be of particular interest.
- Penn CURF’s Fellowships Directory – a tool for Penn students and alumni to familiarize themselves with a broad range of fellowship opportunities
- PennCURF’s 2022 4-year overview of some of the fellowships available to undergraduates (PDF)
- Snort IDS/IPS Scholarship
- New York Times’ Contests
- WiCyS Scholarship List
- Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association STEM Scholarship List
Organization based
Honor Societies
- RIT’s Honors Program – Top 5% of RIT’s students
- Phi Kappa Phi @ RIT – ΦΚΦ – Top 7.5% of juniors and top 10% of seniors and graduate students
- Phi Beta Kappa – ΦΒΚ – Top ~10% of liberal arts graduates
Social Organizations
- Zeta Tau Alpha – ΖΤΑ – Sorority
Professional Organizations
- Delta Sigma Pi – ΔΣΠ – Business Fraternity
Conference scholarships
Note that some of these may link to a conference that already occurred. However, if you go to the new conference website (e.g., Black Hat 2025), you should see the updated scholarship information there!
Black Hat
- SecTor Canada
- Black Hat USA – Student & Veteran
- Black Hat Europe
Linux Foundation
- Cilium + eBPF Day
- CloudNativeSecurityCon America
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China
- gRPConf Sunnyvale
- Linux Security Summit Europe – Vienna
- Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit – Austria
- Open Compliance Summit – Tokyo
- Open Source in Finance Forum – London and New York
- Open Source Summit Europe – Vienna
- Open Source Summit Japan
- OpenTelemetry Community Day
- PyTorch – San Francisco
- RISC-V Summit
- Secure Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion Atlanta
- WasmCon – Salt Lake City
Discontinued
Study abroad scholarships
- RIT’s Study Abroad Scholarship Lists
- Affiliate
- Funded
- National
- RIT-only
- Other resources can be found on RIT Global
Miscellaneous student resources
This section is slightly out of place for now, but I’ll relocate it once I find a more suitable spot. It includes resources I either wish I had discovered earlier or found helpful.
Software
- Tableau – free for students
- GitHub Pro Membership – free for students. Comes with a ton of extra perks too, but they change from year to year. I missed out on a lot by not checking back each year to see if there were any new offerings.
Items
- Customized graduation stoles (study abroad focused)


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