Scholarship

Gallery of Award Recipients

VAPW strives to educate, prepare, and engage the next generation of professional Vietnamese-American women in areas of leadership and development, to mentor and encourage them to enter professional careers, and to inspire community responsibility and participation.

VAPW awards scholarships to female high school seniors who will be attending college during the upcoming academic year. Since the inception of our scholarship program, the individual scholarships have been doubled to $2,000 per award. Recipients are selected based on multiple factors, including academic accomplishments, commitment to community, and ability to overcome hardships.

Scholarship Events

16th Annual Scholarship Award Ceremony - May 23, 2024

We are excited to come together with the community to celebrate VAPW's 16th Annual Scholarship Award Ceremony. Kim Nguyen, Google's Product Marketing Lead was an inspiring keynote speaker.

15th Anniversary and Scholarship Award Ceremony - Jun 11, 2023

We are excited to come together with the community to celebrate VAPW's 15th Anniversary. To commemorate this special occasion, we granted a record number of scholarships, doubling our annual awards. Christine Pham, NASA General Counsel, also past Board of Directors member was an inspiring keynote speaker.

2022 Scholarship Award Ceremony - July 11, 2022

After two years of virtual award ceremony, VAPW was pleased to bring back the in-person Scholarship Award Ceremony for this year's recipients. The keynote speaker, Huy Kim Tran, Director of Aeronautics, NASA Ames Research welcomed the recipients with open arms. The ceremony was held at the newly opened Vietnamese-American Service Center (VASC) of Santa Clara County.

2021 Scholarship Award Ceremony - July 29, 2021

VAPW's Annual scholarship awards reception was held virtually again this year due to pandemic restrictions. This year's keynote speaker, Evelynn Tran, VTA General Counsel was joined by guest speakers Senator Dave Cortese and Vicky Nguyen of NBC News

2020 Scholarship Award Ceremony - July 24, 2020

VAPW's 12th annual scholarship awards reception was held virtually due to shelter-in-place. This year's keynote speaker, Tuan Tran, President, Imaging & Printing Solutions, HP Inc.

2019 Scholarship Award Reception - May 2, 2019

VAPW's 11th annual scholarship awards reception was held at the Vietnamese American Cultural Center in San Jose. This year, we gained a second corporate sponsor, Wells Fargo, and increased the number of awards to 5 total.

2018 10th Scholarship Gala - April 14, 2018

VAPW celebrated its 10th scholarship awards with a gala event held at Ta Restaurant in Milpitas. The special occasion was marked with traditional "ao dai's" by its officers and members of local government came to support the achievements of our fine recipients.

2017 Scholarship Award Reception - May 12, 2017

A proud evening for VAPW as we celebrated our 9th scholarship awards event at Tully Community Branch Library in San Jose. This was the first year we received the HP corporate grant and was able to increase the number of scholarships to 4 and provide gifts to 2 students as honorable mentions.