Radio Club of America Scholarship Committee announces 2024 Scholarship Awards

RCA (the Radio Club of America, the world’s most prestigious society of wireless professionals), announced the recipients of the 2024 Scholarship grants. These scholarships are awarded to institutions of higher education that have wireless communication programs.

The recipients, and associated scholarship funds, for 2024 are:
• Capitol Technology University – John and Mary Dettra Scholarship Fund
• The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art – The New Century Fund
• Fairleigh Dickinson University – The Fred Link Fund
• Georgia Tech – The Barone-DiBlasi-Facella Scholarship Fund
• Metropolitan State University of Denver – The Brownson Fund
• Montclair University School of Communications and Media – The Poppele-Endres Fund
• Stevens Institute of Technology – Buller/Meyerson/Biggs Fund
• University of Cincinnati – The Finch Fund

About the RCA Scholarship Committee

The Radio Club of America scholarship program was founded decades ago by inventor, wireless pioneer and RCA fellow Captain Bill Finch to fulfill the mandate set out by the RCA charter which states that the purpose of the organization is:

… to study and contribute to the development of radio communication programs and provide a
scholarship fund for needy and worthy students for the study of radio communications.

Over the years, club members and/or their families have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to create named funds in honor of loved ones that help students committed to the development of their studies pursuing degrees in the related fields of wireless communications. Scholarship funds are completely separate from the club’s general operating fund and only the interest/dividends from these funds are used for grants to RCA served institutions. Donations are tax-deductible and an endowment of ten thousand dollars or more allows the donor to create a named scholarship fund and to choose the institution destined to receive committee scholarship grants. Our goal is to encourage and help create the next generation of wireless innovators, engineers, broadcasters, and executives.

Recipients of RCA scholarship grants also receive a free 2-year student membership in the Students from all over the country have benefited from our scholarship program. Some of the schools whose students are currently receiving RCA scholarship committee grants include Capitol Technology University, Cooper Union University, Georgia Tech, Michigan Technological University, Montclair State University, North Dakota State, the State University of New York, Virginia Tech, and the University of Texas.