BiR + 3M Master Student Tution Fellowship
Black in Robotics is proud to partner with 3M Corporation (https://www.3m.com/) to provide a Master’s student Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to help Master’s students in the United States by assisting in paying for tuition, providing mentorship, and networking with the 3M organization towards internship and job opportunities.
2023 Awardee Finalists
Keeghan Patrick, MIT, Class of 2023
Keeghan's interest in robotics stems back to his late adolescence when he got an opportunity to represent his country at the First Global Robotics Challenge in Washington DC in 2017. This competition was the inaugural event of the Robotics Challenge and it would go on to serve as the defining moment for Keeghan's career. It is at this competition Keeghan expressed the true passion of an engineer seeing his product perform on a global stage. This early joy and passion pushed Keeghan to study mechanical engineering at his regional university the University of the West Indies then later go on to study at MIT to pursue his Master's degree in Advanced Manufacturing and Design. In that time frame, Keeghan would have worked on numerous projects including the design of an autonomous drone for medical delivery (patent pending), the design of an autonomous hull cleaning robot, and most recently his master’s thesis focusing on a machine learning approach to improving diameter control in desktop fiber extrusion processes.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keeghan-patrick/
Darryl York III, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Class 2025
Darryl is from Omaha, Nebraska and is pursuing a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Darryl’s interest in robotics started in the 6th grade when completing a Lego robotics set. Now, Darryl’s research is focused on autonomous swarm drone anomaly detection.
Immanuel Ampomah Mensah, Northeastern University, Class 2025
Immanuel Ampomah Mensah is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Mechatronics at Northeastern University. His passion for robotics was ignited during his internship at iRobot and further developed during his tenure as an autonomous vehicles engineer at Motional. Currently, he serves as a Research Assistant at Northeastern's Institute of Experiential Robotics and is an integral member of the Programmable and Reconfigurable Soft Engineered Systems [PARSES] lab. Outside the academic realm, Immanuel demonstrated his leadership and diverse interests by founding both the Northeastern University Robotics Club and its Taekwondo team.
Furthermore, Immanuel is deeply committed to making STEM more accessible. He has undertaken roles as the Robotics Program Lead at the Boys and Girls Club of Lowell and an after-school mentor at the John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science. He's also contributed as a course developer for Northeastern's high school outreach program, NEPTUN. Recognized as a Northeastern University Scholar during his undergraduate studies, Immanuel remains dedicated to promoting inclusivity within the STEM fields.
2023 Academic Year MS Tuition Fellowship Application
Black in Robotics is proud to partner with 3M for a Masters graduate student Fellowship for tuition and school health insurance up to $50,000. The awarded student will be reimbursed for Fall 2023 tuition fees already paid, and BiR will cover remaining academic year tuition for a total of up to $50k for the academic year.
Application Due Date: September 17, 2023 11:59pm AOE (anywhere on earth).
Award selection is expected early October 2023.
Eligibility
The student applicant completed undergraduate degree and is actively enrolled in a United States academic institution offering a Masters degree in robotics related field (Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Electrical Engineering) [if you have any questions for related field please email: blackinrobotics@gmail.com]
Must be a current member of Black in Robotics (https://blackinrobotics.org/join-us) and an enrolled participant in the BiR resume book (https://resumebook.blackinrobotics.org/ - site access available when added to email list through the join-us link, and upon request: blackinrobotics@gmail.com)
Application Materials
Personal Statement (1 page)
Resume/CV
Undergraduate unofficial transcript
proof of MS enrollment (acceptance/enrollment correspondence)
Recommender Email (e.g. undergraduate academic instructor, internship mentor, etc)
For possible placement in a 3M internship, our last questions in the google form will help us in finding candidates that would also be a good fit for a possible internship position at 3M