Rotch Traveling Scholarship Award (courtesy of the competition website).

The Rotch Travelling Scholarship is an annual two-stage design competition that results in one person, deemed the Rotch Scholar, traveling the world for eight months studying architecture — and we pick up the tab. In the first stage of the selection process, a weekend-long preliminary design competition is held. Finalists from this competition go on to compete in the second stage, a 10-day competition culminating in a design presentation to a distinguished jury in Boston. The Rotch Scholar receives $35,000 or more to travel and study abroad for a minimum of eight months.

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