Zonta Women in STEM Award

The Women in STEM Award program was established to encourage women to pursue education, career opportunities and leadership roles in STEM fields.

Women of any age and nationality, pursuing a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) degree program at an accredited university/college/institute, who demonstrate outstanding potential in the field and are living or studying in a Zonta district/region, are eligible.

Students must be enrolled in at least the second year of an undergraduate program through the final year of a master’s program at the time the application is submitted to the local Zonta club. They must not graduate before April 2024.

The program operates at the Zonta club, district and international levels.  Each Zonta district may submit one applicant for consideration for an international scholarship.  Zonta International will offer 16 international awards of US$10,000 each and a complimentary one-year supporting membership in Zonta International for the next financial year

For further information about the Scholarship program including the eligibility criteria and application form  click here

What you can do?

  • The application process must start with a Zonta club. .  Please download an application, award application description, award guidelines, evaluation criteria, include your Club name and contact details and deadline and forward it to your local University.  It is advised that applications should be received by Zonta clubs by: 15 Nov 25

  • Club recipient is to be selected and application is to be forwarded to District Governor by: 15 Dec 25

  • A District selection panel will select a District winner and forward application details to ZI Headquarters by: 15 Jan 26

  • Each District candidate (1) will receive US$5,000 from Zonta International.

  • A Zonta International jury will evaluate all the applications and select 16 for the international award of US$10,000 each and a complementary one-year supporting membership in ZI for the next financial year

For further information or help with this program, please contact the Women in STEM program co-ordinator.

Year

2023

2021

2019

District 24 Winners

Sapphire Stewart

Armani Abusafia

Jessica McBroom

School and Nominating Club

University of

University of Sydney - Computer Science

University of Sydney - Educational data mining