Emma Scott, SCIS ’24
The latest cohort of AWESOME Excellence in Education Scholarship recipients have been announced. This year’s recipients include Penn State Smeal College of Business student Emma Scott, an incoming supply chain and information systems senior minoring in information systems management. Scott received a $5,000 scholarship and a place among this year’s 20 award winners.
Becoming a member of AWESOME has been a goal of this awardee since she selected supply chain as her major.
“The generous scholarship was certainly enticing, however, once I started interacting with some of its members I immediately saw that the true value lies within the impressive AWESOME network. Their members are some of the most intelligent, successful women in the field,” said Scott.
“Through Dr. Novack, I was given the opportunity to learn from many of them; in fact, all of my mentors during my time at Penn State have been recipients of this scholarship.”
The AWESOME Excellence in Education Scholarship was created in 2013 to provide women enrolled in a full-time supply chain degree program with the opportunity to attend the AWESOME Symposium and the CSCMP EDGE Conference. Since that inaugural year, five women have been selected each year until 2021, when the program was expanded to include 20 recipients and a financial award.
Scott joins a network of AWESOME Scholars, made up of former recipients from the program’s inception to present. Through AWESOME Scholar CONNECT!, the students are able to form connections and advance their careers through the AWESOME Scholar Forum.
“It would be an understatement to say I look up to the women in this organization greatly,” said Scott.
“What means the most to me regarding this scholarship is that these women I have so much respect for saw potential in me, and for that, I am eternally grateful. I am so honored and humbled that Penn State nominated me, and equally so to be selected as one of the recipients.”