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One of the most rewarding announcements every year in the print and smart technology industry is when the Business Technology Association (BTA) reveals its scholarship winners. The 26 recipients for the 2024-2025 school year—sons and daughters of full-time employees from BTA membership dealers, as always—join an impressive list that began with the creation of the Dorothy R. Ames Scholarship Fund in 1968.
Over the past four decades, the BTA Scholarship Foundation has presented 1,587 such academic accolades totaling $1.8105 million. That is real money (as I like to say) and it’s gone to deserving students who are selected by an independent evaluator. The scholarships are split among the BTA’s four districts, with the amounts ranging from $1,000-$3,000. Many of them are named in honor or in memory of familiar names to BTA like Bob Goldberg, the organization’s recently retired General Counsel (who now has two scholarships named after him).
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| Ashley Nierman receives her BTA scholarship award from Mark Miller (left), President of Eakes Office Solutions, and her father, Mike Nierman, General Manager of Corporate Service, in Grand Island, Nebraska. |
This is one of the highlights of the year for BTA as well as for Brent Hoskins, Executive Director of the organization. When he and I caught up a couple of weeks ago, he spoke with glowing passion about this year’s crop—it was almost as if the Kansas City Royals had won another World Series. But we’re talking education here, and that’s one of the most rewarding things in the world.
Brent is proud of how the scholarship winners are celebrated at the dealer level. He is also thrilled to have the support of The Patriot Pack (starting this year, focused on BTA scholarships for military veterans, their children, or their grandchildren), which raised a significant amount of money for the BTA Scholarship Foundation. He encourages students to reapply if they miss out one year.
The 2024-2025 scholarship application included an essay question asking applicants to share their thoughts on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. The essay submitted by the student receiving the largest BTA scholarship for the school year appears in the September issue of BTA’s Office Technology magazine.
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