Annually VIPMOAA presents awards and scholarships to 3 local college ROTC programs and up to 11 local high school JROTC programs. Your contributions to the VIPMOAA community service and charitable donations account directly support these awards and scholarships. 100% of your money goes to this effort.

At the college level we award an achievement certificate, medal, and a $200 stipend to an outstanding Jr year cadet, and also support the Sr cadets who are commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants with a set of 2LT bars and a free introductory membership in MOAA. 

At the high school level, we award an achievement certificate, medal, and a $50 gift card to a deserving Jr year cadet, and a certificate and $500 scholarship to a Sr cadet, to be used for post-secondary education (college, trade school, or a certificate awarding program). 

For school year 2021-2022, all 3 local colleges, and 8 of 11 peninsula high schools participated with live, post-pandemic, public ceremonies. One high school held a private, non-public ceremony but was supported by VIPMOAA non-the-less.

A special thanks to all the VIPMOAA presenters that took time out of their busy schedules to support the ROTC/JROTC cadets and programs. Now that events are back to “mostly normal”, post- pandemic, the Professors of Military Science (PMS’s) at HU and W&M/CNU are again interested in starting up the VIPMOAA hosted leadership panels as part of their formal syllabus. The Board of Directors will contact the PMS's and ROTC instructors about this program and we will ask for volunteer panel members for the upcoming school year. These sessions have proved invaluable in the past as part of a new officer’s education on “how it really is” in service to our great nation.