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
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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.
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.
Rotary District 6910
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For the first time in nearly 20 years, there is “buzz” in the air about Georgia Tech for the Georgia Rotary Student Program. GRSP has worked directly with Rotary Clubs and Tech to offer scholarships to international students, including Atharva Lele, 19 of India and Seraphine “Sheena” Gunawan, 19 of Indonesia.
Atharva is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Peachtree City. He enjoys linear algebra this term and explains it as the new way of thinking about mathematics. He’s connected with people from all across the world and learning about their culture, history and traditions. Atharva had a chance to represent Tech this past week at the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE) Connect Collegiate Conference in Boston, MA. He was chosen with a group of four other students to represent Tech for their project.
Sheena is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Henry County and a computer science major. Her favorite class this term is Automata and Complexity, which explores the fundamentals of computer problems. She is also spending time working in a biomedical lab helping with simulations, AI analysis and multitracking system as well as taking a quantum machine learning research class. It is easy to imagine why she appreciates how her Rotary Club encourages her to take breaks, go outside and have fun. She’s intrigued by learning about the other GRSP scholars’ passions and helping others internationally despite their busy schedules and the growing individualism in society.
GRSP scholars will gather next month in Alpharetta for their last student weekend of the Fall Semester.
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