Application | The Sean A. Collier Adventure Grant

Application Instructions

Describe in your application why you should be selected to receive a Sean A. Collier Adventure Grant. Please include the following and keep each answer to two paragraphs (or about 150-200 words). You may format your application document as short answers, including each of the questions below

Describe the trip you hope to go on. Where? Who? When? Why?

What personal goals do you hope to achieve with your adventure? How will the grant allow you to learn/grow in ways that you otherwise would not be able to?

Describe your journey with MITOC. How do you hope to contribute to the MITOC community in the future, and how might this grant further that aim?

What does Sean's legacy through the Sean A. Collier Adventure Grant mean to you? Do you have a personal connection to Sean?

How much money are you applying for?

Provide a broken-down budget of what you will spend your award on by completing the Collier Adventure Grant Budget template spreadsheet (make a copy)
Note in your application whether your grant request can be partially funded or not. Applications that can be partially funded are more likely to be awarded a grant.

The 2024 round of applications closes on October 25, 2024, and awardees will be announced by November 12.

If you have any questions or concerns about the grant process or application system, please contact mitoc-cag@mit.edu.

First Name *

Last Name *

Email *

Phone *

Address *

MIT Affiliation *

Adventure Title *

Proposed trip date (start) *

Year

Month

Day

Non-binding, just to give us a sense of when your trip would occur.

Proposed trip date (end) *

Year

Month

Day

Upload your essay *

Files must be less than 10 MB.
Allowed file types: txt rtf pdf doc docx.

Llink to your Collier Adventure Grant Budget spreadsheet

Llink to your budget spreadsheet

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