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Applications invited for Fomento Scholars prog

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MARGAO

Fomento has initiated the Fomento Scholars programme to give opportunity to deserving talented students from Goa to pursue high quality undergraduate engineering education in the USA.  

Students of Std XI Science are selected and helped to gain admission at SDSMT USA, for undergraduate engineering courses of their choice. The programme was started in the year 2014 and till date has helped as many as 19 students gain admission into SDSMT.  

This year, five more students will join SDSMT, USA which his known for its quality undergraduate engineering programme. 

The students get the opportunity to pursue internship, co-op in reputed companies where they learn as well as earn. One of the students of the Fomento Scholars program who passed his graduation last year, passed it with Gold Tassel which a student gets only when his CGPA is between 3.9-4 on a scale of four.   

Fomento Scholars seek students having good academic track record as well as a thirst for knowledge and the ability to implement it. The candidates should have a strong bond with Goa and Goans and promise to make the state proud. Students who are in Std XI Science, during this academic year 2018-19 are eligible to apply for Fomento aid to join this college. Interest candidates may visit the website www.fomentoscholars.org for more information and online application.  

The procedure of selection and other details will be informed to the students through email once the enrolment form is filled. Students studying in St XI Science in Goa are requested to take benefit of this golden opportunity to join SDSMT in 2020 after they pass their Std XII examination.     

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