Scholarship Opportunities

• Engineering Innovation Need-Based Scholarship
• Baltimore, DC, and Surrounding Areas Student Opportunities:
  • Baltimore City Students: Fee Waiver & Tuition Scholarship
  • Baltimore City Students: Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs & YouthWorks Partnership
  • DC Students: Fee Waiver & Tuition Scholarship
  • Motorola Solutions Scholarship
  • Carroll County Residents Scholarship
• Hopkins Employees:
  • Johns Hopkins Tuition Remission
• Other Opportunities:
  • ISPEED-BME Scholarship

Engineering Innovation Need-Based Scholarship

Fund Priority Statement

Priority is given to:

• Students attending Baltimore City Public Schools or District of Columbia Public Schools (download a PDF flyer with information for BCPSS and DCPS students)
• Students residing in the United States
• Students with diverse backgrounds and experiences

We are not able to offer scholarships for the residential programs.

We do not have any scholarship opportunities available for international students.

You are not considered an international student if any of the following apply to you:

• You are a U.S. Citizen
• You are a permanent resident (a person who holds a Green Card)
• You are an eligible non-citizen
• You have DACA or undocumented status

All other students are considered international applicants, even if they attend secondary school in the U.S.

Applicants will indicate in their application if they want to apply for scholarship or financial aid. The Johns Hopkins Engineering Innovation team will contact applicants after they submit their application to complete a financial need application.

During this process, you will be asked questions about your family’s financial status, and supporting documents, such as a copy of the most recent U.S. tax form 1040 for your parent(s)/guardian(s), will typically be required.

Baltimore, DC, and Surrounding Areas Student Opportunities

Baltimore City Students: Fee Waiver & Tuition Scholarship

Students who attend a Baltimore City Public School are eligible for an application fee waiver. Please contact our office at [email protected] for instructions. You do not need to complete the financial aid portion of the application. If qualified and accepted to an Engineering Innovation course, you will receive a full scholarship to attend a commuter or online course.

Download a PDF flyer with more information.

Baltimore City Students: Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs & YouthWorks Partnership

The Johns Hopkins Engineering Innovation (EI) Pre-College Programs office collaborates closely with the  Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program (JHSJP) to support Baltimore City Schools students and Baltimore City’s YouthWorks program . If you are accepted into an EI Pre-College Program and the JHSJP-YouthWorks program, you will receive a full scholarship to attend an EI Pre-College course with the possibility of earning JHU college credit; you will be paid an hourly rate for up to 25 hours per week for participating in EI and working on the JHU campus after the program ends. If you are accepted into EEI or SEE, you will also be invited to attend Engineering FUNdamentals (an pre-course introduction to campus and a review of material needed for the courses) the week before the program starts and have your participation paid at the same hourly rate.

To be eligible, you must apply to  the Engineering Innovation Pre-college Program, the Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program, and YouthWorks and complete all application and enrollment steps required by each office. 

When completing the YouthWorks application, please select “Johns Hopkins” as your “Career Interests 1s.” The deadline for the application for summer 2025 is March 7, 2025. You can still apply to Hopkins EI Pre-College Programs or for the YouthWorks program after that date, but you will not be eligible to be paid for taking the course. 

Please visit our Johns Hopkins Summer Jobs Program Partnership page for more information.

District of Columbia Students: Fee Waiver & Tuition Scholarship

Students who attend a Washington, DC Public School are eligible for an application fee waiver. Please contact our office at [email protected] for instructions. You do not need to complete the financial aid portion of the application. If qualified and accepted to an Engineering Innovation course, you will receive a full scholarship to attend a commuter or online course.

Download a PDF flyer with more information.

Motorola  Solutions Foundation Scholarship

Motorola Solutions Foundation has provided needs-based scholarship funding to support 14 students who identify as LatinX and/or Black/African American and enroll as a commuting student in Explore Engineering Innovation at one of the locations listed below. If you complete the financial aid form in the application and are qualified for this scholarship, you will be considered automatically. 

• Johns Hopkins University – Homewood campus 
• Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Laboratory 
• University of the District of Columbia 

Carroll County Residents Scholarship

The Carroll County (MD) Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks offers need- and merit-based grants for residents of Carroll County (MD) to attend Johns Hopkins Engineering Innovation Pre-College Programs. Applicants may be students of public or private schools in Carroll County or another school district. 

The complete application (online application, application fee, teacher recommendation, financial documents, and official transcript) must be received by February 24 for consideration for this scholarship. 

How to apply to the Carroll County Residents Scholarship:

1. Complete the Online Application

   • You will be directed to a Financial Aid Application page.

2. Answer the Following Questions

   • Question 1: Are you applying for JHU financial aid?
     • Select “Yes.”
   • Question 2: Who is responsible for tuition that is not covered by JHU financial aid? (Choose all applicable)
     • From the pull-down menu, select “Sponsoring Organization.”

3. Select Sponsoring Organization

   • You will be asked to select the name of the organization.
     • From the pull-down menu, select “Other.”

4. Provide the Following Information

   • In the text box titled “Name of Sponsoring Organization,” type:
     • Carroll County Elks
   • In the text box titled “Name of Contact,” type:
     • Engineering Innovation
   • In the text box titled “Contact Phone Number,” type:
     • 443-927-1986
   • In the text box titled “Contact Email,” type:
     • [email protected]

Hopkins Employees

Johns Hopkins Tuition Remission

If you are a dependent child of a Johns Hopkins employee, your parent(s) may be able to use the Johns Hopkins Tuition Remission Plan to cover tuition fees for Engineering Innovation Pre-College Programs. Johns Hopkins University employees should contact Human Resources to determine whether they are eligible for the benefit and complete the Dependent Child Tuition Remission Benefit Application.

Please follow these screenshot instructions to submit an online form to SEAM and upload the completed Tuition Remission Form to have it credited to the student’s account.  This should be done before making payment through the student’s JHU SIS account.