Educators play an important part in the lives of their students and are often instrumental in instilling a love of learning and the pursuit of higher education within their students. Our scholarship program would not be successful without the hard work and participation from educators and, for that, we say thank you! We are excited to work with educators in recognizing and rewarding academic superstars!
Step 1: Nominate a student
Step 2: Students complete and submit the application
Step 3: Notification of decisions
We look forward to working with you in the 2026 scholarship season. Our office is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. ET for support.
All educators, teachers and administrators with a valid school email address from an accredited K-12 school in the United States are welcome to participate in the Carson Scholars Program. To be added to our database and receive materials for our program, please review our requirements for requesting an application and then complete the Application Request Form.
Requesting an application adds your school to our application distribution list. Once on this list, you will receive scholarship information as it becomes available.
Each school is eligible to nominate one student per year to compete for a Carson Scholarship. Students must have a minimum 3.75 GPA and display humanitarian qualities through community service to be eligible to apply. Please review our GPA Calculations Rules and Policies to learn more about how we calculate GPA. Scholarships are awarded solely on the basis of academic achievement and humanitarian qualities – without regard to financial need or ethnicity.
If you have further questions, please email scholarship@carsonscholars.org.
For information on our alternative learning environment policy, please click here.
The purpose of the Carson Scholars Fund is to recognize and reward outstanding students in the United States enrolled in grade 4-11 who exemplify academic excellence and humanitarian qualities. The goal of the Carson Scholars Program goes beyond instilling an interest in college early on and assisting with the costs of college.
Carson Scholars are role models in their schools. The impact of our program goes beyond individual students and families to schools and classrooms. Carson Scholars encourage other students in their school to strive for excellence and serve as peer role models. Our research shows that 94% of our scholars feel that being named a Carson Scholar has helped them become role models in their school.
Carson Scholars are recognized by their school. As part of the Carson Scholars Program, schools are provided with a trophy to be displayed proudly in display cases. The aim is to add value to academic achievements and to refocus the spotlight on education; too often athletic achievements are recognized more often than academic successes.