The Gaylord Green Scholarship, which for the past five years has been offered to only seniors at St. Regis and Superior high schools, is now being offered to students in all four classes, freshman through senior.

Details on the Mineral County Scholarship:

Annual amount $2,000 per award per student – $8,000 total for four years

Applicant Qualifications: Any student from either St. Regis or Superior high school. All four grades (9-12) are eligible.

Deadline for application: April 1st of the year award is to be given.

Screening Process:

1. Give a summary of 10 sites selected from technical web sites such as NASA, NSF or NIST sponsored sites and at least 2 pages on your favorite site and why to your science teacher. (By mid March)

2. Build a business plan and submit by April 1st on a potential business for Mineral County. (Business income [money coming in] and business expense [money spent] must be balanced over time.)

Selection Process: The winner will be selected by the County Treasurer, Mullan Bank and principals from the two schools. Retired Mineral County Treasurer Toots Bricker and a Green family member will also be available for consultation.

Payment and Yearly Renewal Eligibility: One thousand dollars will be paid with successful completion of each semester or each quarter (first two) with the submittal of grades from an institute of higher learning. Success is determined by completion with a “B” grade average or better in the declared science or technical business major courses (other courses not included). The student must carry at least a 12 unit course load or equivalent in the institute of higher learning.

Subsequent years are renewed automatically with the successful completion of the prior year. County Treasurer Anna Getz and the high school principals from the two schools will approve the yearly scholarship renewals.

This scholarship is additive to any other scholarship the student may receive.

Students who do not receive the scholarship in their first year are encouraged to continue to revise their applications and reapply in subsequent years.

Mineral County native Gaylord Green started school in a one-room schoolhouse in Haugan. The Superior High School graduate went on to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy and Stanford University. During his career in the aeronautics industry, he worked at what is now the Space Missiles Center in Los Angeles, and was one of three inventors of today’s Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) systems.

He capped his career as the director of the Gravity Probe B project, an experiment that aims to provide quantitative data to prove or disprove Einstein’s prediction that space-time is curved. The experiment examines changes in the direction of spin of four gyroscopes above a satellite to measure how space and time are warped by the presence of the Earth, and how the Earth’s rotation drags space-time around with it.

Scientists are scheduled to release results from their analysis at the American Physical Society Meeting April 14-17 in Jacksonville, Florida. They will also convene for a conference this fall at Stanford. For more information, see the project website, http://einstein.stanford.edu.

Gaylord has been inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame twice–first for his work on GPS, and again for the Gravity Probe B project.

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