The 63rd annual United States Senate Youth Program Washington Week is March 1–8, 2025. All student delegates will partake in the comprehensive, interactive leadership program, and each will receive the $10,000 college scholarship in the name of the United States Senate. Washington Week and the scholarship are one inseparable award.

How to Qualify

• Be a junior or senior in a Montana public, private, or charter high school. 

• Hold a leadership position for the entire school year representing a constituency in any one of the following student government, civic, or educational organizations. Leadership roles are subject to verification and judgement of the state selection administrator.

  • Student body president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer

  • Class president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer

  • Student Council representative

  • National Honor Society officer

  • Student representative elected or appointed (by a panel, commission, or board) to a local, district, regional, state-level civic, service, and/or educational organization

• Be a United States citizen or legal permanent resident at the time of application

• Be a Montana resident at the time of application

An applicant's high school principal must sign and verify the student’s application submission and nomination to the program.

For more information on eligibility, code of conduct, and complete rules, see the USSYP Website.

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Montana Requirements

The 2024-25 USSYP Scholarship application period is now open!

Please download, save, and then fill out your application form.

Your completed electronic application packet with attachments must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., Monday, October 7, 2024.

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For information about the Montana USSYP Scholarship, email Kristen Bokovoy, USSYP Coordinator, or call 406-444-2417.