Black Students in Tech Grant
Mechanism Ventures
Talent is evenly distributed, but opportunity is not.
Inequality of opportunity is pronounced in the tech industry, where the share of Black employees is around half that of the US population, and has remained nearly unchanged over the last 5 years.
This lack of diversity manifests in harmful ways, like racial bias against African-Americans in healthcare algorithms and facial recognition error rates more than 40x worse for Black women as light-skinned men.
In support of building a more diverse and equitable tech industry, the Black Students in Tech Grant will be awarded to a Black student or recent graduate at any education level or field of study who is pursuing or who plans to pursue a career in the tech industry.
This scholarship is part of the Mechanism Ventures Impact Grants Series.
Scholarship application
Please tell us a bit about yourself. What do you hope to achieve in your career in the tech industry, and how are you preparing yourself to achieve it?
FAQ
The application deadline is Oct 11, 2020. Winners will be announced on Nov 11, 2020.
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The scholarship award is $1,000.
The winner will be publicly announced on Nov 11, 2020. Prior to the announcement date, we may contact finalists with additional questions about their application. We will work with donors to review all applications according to the scholarship criteria. Winners will be chosen based on the merit of their application.
We will send the award check to the financial aid office of the winner’s academic institution or future academic institution in their name, and in the name of their institution (depending on the school’s requirements). If the student's academic institution does not have a financial aid office, the student will receive the funding directly.
Before we award the scholarship, the winner will be required to verify their academic enrollment status by providing a copy of their most recent transcript.
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