Student Veterans of American Internship Support Program and Google Scholarships
The Internship Support Program (ISP) provides student veterans with a monthly stipend to offset the financial burden of an unpaid internship. We recognize that student veterans are nontraditional students with financial obligations. Some student veterans use their GI Bill benefits as a primary source of income. This may cause student veterans to choose between taking max course loads to support their financial obligations and finding paid employment.
The Internship Support Program was originally underwritten by the Call of Duty Endowment, an organization focused on combating veterans unemployment, in the Fall semester of 2011. Since the majority of unpaid internships open in the Summer semester term, SVA will now host the program during the Summer semester.
The Google-SVA Scholarship program is focused on rewarding high caliber student veterans pursuing a degree in the Computer Science field. The goals of the Google-SVA Scholarship are to:
- To identify high-performing student veterans in the Computer Science field, and to reward achievement and encourage further study through the scholarship program.
- To affect the retention of student veterans in the Computer Science field by providing recognition and funds needed for university expenses, such as tuition, books and lab fees.
- To help foster communities of students through Google sponsored events like the Annual Scholars' Retreats. The Scholars Retreat is an all-expenses paid retreat for the scholarship winners for that academic year. It provides an important networking opportunity for the top students from all over the US to meet with each other, and with Google engineers in a personable and fun environment.
