MRED student Brendan Swinehart, received the SIOR Foundation Student Real Estate Experience Program scholarship in late January. The scholarship was given by the Carolinas Chapter of SIOR and the SIOR Foundation.
He was chosen out of six applicants (three from Clemson, three from UNC-Charlotte) to attend the SIOR International European Conference in Dublin, Ireland, July 15-17, 2020. As part of this scholarship, Brendan will be provided up to $4,000 of funding to cover conference attendance expenses for Dublin.
Swinehart is a May 2019 Clemson graduate with a double major in architecture and Chinese. He is interested in using his background in Chinese to assist Chinese and other international businesses invest in property in the United States for development. As an undergraduate student at Clemson, Brendan traveled to Asia and Europe and he is looking forward to traveling abroad again to explore Ireland while learning about his family’s heritage.
SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors) was founded in 1941 to assist in securing manufacturing facilities across the nation to put into service to support production needs for World War II. Scholarship eligibility requirements included 1) current undergraduate (junior or senior) or graduate student; 2) majoring in real estate, finance, business or economics with a career interest in commercial real estate; 3) 21 years of age at the conference start; and 4) possess a valid passport for the conference dates.
Learn more about SIOR here.