Financial Aid for Science and Technology Students

三一大学通过其科学技术助学金（FAST）学生助学金计划，向表现出经济需求的学术有天赋的学生颁发约176份个人奖学金，每年4600美元，抵消每个学生经济援助计划中基于需求的贷款部分的很大一部分。奖学金可由个别学生续期，最长可达四年。通过这个项目，三一学院特别寻求招收第一代大学生，以实现学校的目标，即增加主修广泛的STEM学科的学生的多样性，包括生物学、化学、计算机科学、工程科学、地球科学、数学、物理和天文学。此外，在阿拉莫社区学院区（Alamo Community college District）的一个校区开始大学生涯后，在三一学院入学的符合条件的转学生也可以获得FAST学生助学金。FAST学生资助项目与三一学院的另外两个项目紧密相连：一个是面向地区高中中学生的向上发展项目，另一个是面向攻读博士学位的本科生的罗纳德·e·麦克奈尔后学士成就项目。FAST学生资助计划有三个主要目标：1 .通过提供多年期奖学金的方式，减轻大量STEM专业学生的贷款负债，使经济困难的学生更容易进入三一大学，并在四年内完成学业；增加STEM专业学生的多样性（经济、种族、文化、身体障碍和/或性别），主要关注第一代大学生；说谎。通过利用三一学院现有的实践和项目，并通过战略性地加强和重点关注这些项目，为奖学金获得者提供学术支持、教师和同伴指导以及职业安置咨询服务，以改善奖学金获得者的大学经历，使他们取得成功。

Through its Financial Aid for Science and Technology (FAST) Student Grant Program, Trinity University is awarding an estimated 176 individual scholarships of $4,600 per year to academically talented students who demonstrate financial need, offsetting a significant portion of the need-based loan portion of each student's financial aid package. The scholarships are renewable by individual students for up to four years. Through the program, Trinity especially seeks to recruit first-generation college students in order to reach institutional goals of increasing the diversity of students majoring in a broad range of STEM disciplines, including Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy. Moreover, FAST student grants are also available to eligible transfer students matriculating at Trinity after commencing their college careers on one of the campuses of the Alamo Community College District. The FAST Student Grant Program is linked strongly with two other Trinity programs: an Upward Bound program for secondary students at area high schools and a Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program for undergraduate students moving on to doctoral studies.The FAST Student Grant Program has three major objectives:1. To decrease the loan indebtedness of a significant number of academically talented students majoring in the STEM disciplines by offering multi-year scholarships, thereby making if easier for economically challenged students to attend Trinity University and complete their degree within four years;2. To increase the diversity (economic, ethnic, cultural, physically-challenged, and/or gender) of students majoring in the STEM disciplines , with a primary focus on first-generation college students; and3. To provide academic support, faculty and peer mentoring and career placement counseling services to scholarship recipients by utilizing existing Trinity practices and programs and by strategically strengthening and focusing these programs to improve the college experiences of the recipients and enable their success.