2025-2026 Standard Selection Scholarship Application Is Now Open
Students from around the world apply each year for this amazing cultural experience often referred to as “the best year of their life”. We welcome any students who meet the qualifications to apply.
This program is one-of-a-kind. We have been bringing nations together since 1946. The program began with only 4 scholars, and now we are proud to say that we have more than 3,692 alumni from all over the world. The program’s purpose is to broaden the understanding of world peace through people and that is exactly what we’ve done.
GRSP News
GRSP Trio in Norway Experience Summer of Harmony, Personal Growth
The trio of Georgia Rotary Student Program (GRSP) college students from Georgia returned from Norway in early August declaring the time spent abroad was a beautiful summer of harmony and personal growth. Isabel “Izzy” Forster represented District 6900 and the Rotary...
GRSP Names 2024 Oslo International Summer School Scholarship Winners
Georgia Rotary Student Program Founder William A. Watt, Sr., established a relationship in Norway that is prospering more than 70 years later as evident in the three college students from Georgia who have been selected to spend six weeks this summer studying at the...
GRSP Conclave Ushers in Class of 2023-24
Cabaret, featuring songs, skills, humor, national costumes and more, showcased a variety of talent and diversity among the Georgia Rotary Student Program’s Class of 2023-24 in Macon. Directed by Chair Emeritus and GRSP Foundation President Jim and Lynn Drake, the...
Being a part of the Georgia Rotary Student Program has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. This program has afforded me the opportunity to forge lasting friendships with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. This, perhaps, is the greatest gift that one can hope to get for it allows us to see through differences across cultures and instead find similarities between one another. I feel that such fellowship across participants, both students and host families, is what made this program such an enriching experience for me.
Ali Shaaban Shahid
Pakistan
GRSP 2013-14
Since 1946, Rotarians in Georgia, USA, have promoted world peace through understanding by offering ambassadorial scholarships to international students for one year cultural immersion and of study in Georgia colleges and universities.
Each year, students from all over the world make friends in the United States and other nations and learn about differing cultures and lifestyles. Georgia Rotarians believe “Peace is Possible” and through GRSP promote international goodwill through friendship and understanding.
The students become adopted members of a Georgia “host family,” living on-campus at the school they attend. This is an ambassadorial scholarship program, not an exchange!
Georgia Rotary Clubs sponsor students recommended by a Rotary Club in their home country.
GRSP’s Student Filippa Stenberg of Sweden made gingerbread man cookies for children in foster care.
Filippa will be joining Rotary Club of Canton and Rotary Club of Towne Lake
to deliver and enjoy a delicious Thanksgiving meal at Goshen Valley Boys Ranch this weekend. Filippa is happy to share her great baking talents and serve the community.
She spent Sunday baking and having a wonderful time with Carol Gage who is a member and Past President of the
Rotary Club of Cherokee County,
one of Filippa's sponsoring clubs.
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Filippa Stenberg, 18 of Sweden, is enjoying learning more about the English language in her Composition course at Reinhardt University. She is sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Canton, Jasper, Towne Lake, Cherokee County and Woodstock. She was pleasantly surprised to discover that her weekly Rotary meetings and the GRSP weekends were so engaging and filled with various ways to see the state while meeting more host families and building bonds with her classmates. Filippa hopes to friendships and connections that she’s created remain a part of her global Rotary community.
“It’s amazing to be able to say that you know someone in every corner of the world,” she said.
One day, Filippa, who describes herself as curious by nature, hopes to work in the field of biology or life sciences while helping develop assets to a sustainable lifestyle in a globalized world.
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She is an absolute delight!
Always encouraging when a Georgia Rotary Student Program Alumnae in a leadership role takes time to invest in our current scholars.
Anna Stenport, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the oldest and largest college at the University of Georgia, hosted a dinner with GRSP scholars attending UGA including Helen Levy, who is from Andorra along with family ties to a number of other countries, Maha Ramzan of Denmark, graduate student Nick Gherasimenco of Moldova, former scholar, Moira Alejandra La Fuente of Bolivia, who is a senior at UGA, two GRSP Trustees, Clark Brown and Rick Siddons, as well as GRSP Executive Director Katheryne Fields.
Dean Stenport is from Sweden and participated in GRSP in 1993, attending UGA. After learning a little about the group, she shared the impact of Rotary International in her education process and a brief history of her career path. She encouraged the students to recognize the value of their experience within GRSP. Fun facts learned around the table: The Dean has two children who attend Georgia Tech University and was encouraged to hear about GRSP’s renewed partnership with Tech this year. She is also one state away from the accomplishment of having visited all 50 states of the USA! Aloha- we hope you get to visit Hawaii sometime soon.
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