Scholarships - Germanic-American Institute

TCGIS Capstone Trip Scholarship

The GAI is offering partial, needs-based scholarships for TCGIS students who are participating in the Capstone Trip in Spring 2025. Interested students and parents must submit the scholarship application. Deadline for applications is November 30, 2024.

Summer Scholars Program

Application is open for 2024

The GAI offers a 50% scholarship for the AATG German Summer Study Program for high school students. Interested students must apply for the program first and may then submit a scholarship application to Language Services.

GAI Language Classes

The Ted Taylor Lifetime Learner Scholarship Program provides scholarships each session to cover the cost of attending an adult language class or a Samstagsschule class for kids. Scholarship recipients must attend at least 10 of 12 sessions to be eligible for a continuing scholarship. To apply, please complete and submit a scholarship application to Language Services.

After submitting your scholarship application, please wait for a response from Language Services before registering for classes.

Ted Taylor Lifetime Learner Scholarship Program

Ted Taylor Princeton chemist Edward Taylor, whose research into butterfly wing pigments led to the development of an important cancer-fighting drug, was known as an extraordinary scholar, teacher, mentor, and human being.

Ted joined the GAI in 2014 as a language student at the age of 91. He was still taking classes until shortly before he died at the age of 94. He truly embodied a Lifetime Learner. The GAI is deeply honored to help celebrate Ted’s legacy and generous spirit.

Thanks to a donation from the Rick and Susan Taylor Spielman Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation, the GAI is offering the Ted Taylor Lifetime Learner Scholarship Program.

Several students are selected each session to receive scholarships. Scholarships may cover the entire tuition for the course or part of it. This award is based on financial need and the student’s interest and goals in continuing to learn the German language. The student may be required to purchase the textbook for the course.