The GE Vernova STAR Scholarships

Children of GE Vernova Employees Scholarship

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS April 10, 2025 ET. Online applications and supporting materials must be submitted by 11:59 pm ET. Reference forms must be submitted by April 23, 2025 11:59pm ET. Late submissions and incomplete applications will not be considered. There is no appeal process.

Eligibility Determination

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Thank you for your interest in the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships, funded by the GE Vernova Foundation. This is a global program offered to children of GE Vernova employees working around the world. This GE Vernova employee eligibility form must be completed by a parent/guardian in order for your child to access the online or paper application. Once you submit this form, your child will be sent a link giving them access to IIE's online application system in order to complete an application online in English or Spanish or to download a PDF application in Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, or Portuguese.

Before proceeding, please review the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships website to learn more about the program.

Eligibility Questionnaire

Are you a current employee of GE Vernova?

Yes

No

Based on your answers you are not eligible to initiate the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships application on behalf of your child. To be eligible you must be a current employee of GE Vernova as of the application deadline, April 10, 2025. Children or dependents of Executive Band employees, Senior Executive Band employees or Company Officers are not eligible to apply. Employees who have retired directly from GE Vernova or acting on behalf of an employee who has died while in active service for, or after retiring directly from GE Vernova, are not eligible to apply. If you have questions please send an email to GEVernova@iie.org.

Are you currently an Executive Band employee, Senior Executive Band employee or Company Officer?

Yes

No

Based on your answers you are not eligible to initiate the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships application on behalf of your child. Children or dependents of Executive Band employees, Senior Executive Band employees or Company Officers are not eligible to apply. If you have questions please send an email to GEVernova@iie.org.

Does one of the following situations describe the child applying for this program?
a. The applicant is your birth child or adopted child;
b. The applicant is a step-child who lives with you;
c. The applicant is a child who lives permanently with you and depends on you solely for support and for whom you or your spouse are the court-appointed permanent guardian.

Yes

No

Based on your answers you are not eligible to initiate the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships application on behalf of your child. Eligible applicants must be the birth child or adopted child of an eligible GE Vernova employee; a step-child who lives with an eligible employee; or another child who lives permanently with an eligible employee, depends solely on that employee for support, and for whom the employee or his/her spouse is the court appointed permanent guardian. If you have questions please send an email to GEVernova@iie.org.

Is the child applying for this program currently enrolled in their final year of high/upper secondary school?

Yes

No

If you're applying from outside the U.S. and would like more information, please see the Eligibility Section in the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships FAQs.

Based on your answers, your child is not eligible to apply to the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships. Eligible applicants must currently be enrolled as a high school senior or at the highest level of studies available at the higher/upper secondary school level in a public, private, or parochial school (or equivalent, including students who are home-schooled). If you have questions, please send an email to GEVernova@iie.org.

Is the child applying for this program enrolling for their first time in post-secondary education?

Yes

No

Students enrolled in college courses for high-school credit prior to graduation from high school are eligible.

Based on your answers, your child is not eligible to apply to the GE Vernova STAR Scholarships. Eligible applicants must be enrolling for the first time in post-secondary education - a full-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited four-year college or university; or an accredited community college or vocational-technical school.If you have questions, please send an email to GEVernova@iie.org.

GE Vernova Employee Data

Employee Prefix

Employee Given Name (First Name)

Employee Family Name (Last Name)

Employee Suffix

Employee Work Address

Street Address

City

State or Region

Postal/Zip Code

Country

GE Vernova Email Address (If you do not have a GE Vernova email address, please use your personal email address)

Work Telephone Number (include country and city code)

GE Vernova SSO ID (approximately 9 digits)

GE Vernova employee's relation to applicant:

Relationship - Other - Please Describe

Employee Country of Citizenship

Name of Employee's Human Resource Manager

Human Resource Manager/Email Address

Human Resource Manager Phone Number (include country and city code)

Child's Profile

Child's Given Name (First Name)

Child's Middle Name

Child's Family Name (Last Name)

Child's Suffix

Child's Email Address

Please type email addresses carefully. Application log-in details will be sent to this address.

Child's Birthdate

Privacy Statement

By clicking "Submit," you agree to the privacy statement below.

Information provided through this application will only be used for competition purposes and will be treated with utmost confidentiality. All data will be available only to members of the Institute of International Education and the selection panel. Employment information, including GE Vernova SSO ID, employee name, and work city, state and country, for finalists will also be made available to the GE Vernova Foundation for eligibility verification and award announcement and celebration purposes. Additionally, applicant finalists’ name, school, city, state, and country will be made available to the GE Vernova Foundation for award announcement and celebration purposes. An application package becomes the property of IIE once it is submitted. The application or any parts of the application package will not be returned to the applicant.

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IIE’s Privacy Statement outlines how IIE processes personal data and includes the types of personal data that IIE processes, why IIE processes it, and with whom IIE shares it.

Please note that IIE may be required to process personal data that is generally considered to be sensitive. IIE only processes this information when it is necessary to execute the management of an application or program.

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I have read the IIE Privacy Statement.
I give consent for IIE to process my personal data.
I am the Parent, Legal Guardian, or Caregiver of the person associated with this application, who may be a minor, and I give consent for IIE to process their personal data.