Call for PIES 2015 Scholarships will be open until March
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) informed that the call for scholarships through the INTEC Program with Outstanding Students (PIES) will be open until next Friday 13 in March, for young people from schools and colleges across the country.
Those interested in applying to the PIES Scholarship Program can know the details on the website www.intec.edu.do/pies or present directly to the National Scholarships and Credits Unit of INTEC. They can also request information to the 809-567-9271 phone extensions 353 and 279, and to email
The first step is to complete the Admission Form in the portal and select as "Type of Candidate" the option: "Participation FEET" and complete the documents indicated by the procedure before taking the Academic Aptitude Test (PAA), for which a study guide is available online.
During 27 years, INTEC's PIES Program has awarded scholarships to more than 1,400 high school graduates from across the country, through a rigorous process that identifies and selects young people who have demonstrated an outstanding academic career to provide them with the opportunity to acquire professional training high quality and social commitment.
Requirements
Among the main application requirements we can mention being in the last year of high school; In case of having finished it, the interested party is allowed to participate as long as it does not exceed the maximum time - (1) one year - of his departure from the educational center. In addition, it is required to have obtained during the four (4) years of high school a minimum of ninety (90) points in the average of the subjects Spanish Language, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences in each semester and, a minimum of eighty (80) points in the rest of the subjects taken in each semester.
The PIES Program was created by INTEC in the 1987 year as a pioneering initiative in the country of uninterrupted support for academically outstanding young people, and education as the foundation of economic, social and cultural development.
The young people selected receive the opportunity to pursue a career at INTEC, which guarantees excellent preparation in different areas of study, as well as awards and recognition of their talent and successful personal and professional development. Eight out of ten PIE students graduate with the highest academic honors.
Currently, the PIES has more than 280 scholarship students of which 45 entered INTEC during the August-October quarter 2014.