PEGP honors individuals who lost their lives protecting the citizens of Pennsylvania by helping their children fund their education. To be eligible, students must be a child by birth or adoption of a police officer, firefighter, rescue or ambulance squad member, corrections facility employee, or active National Guard member who died after January 1, 1976, as a direct result of performing their official duties, and be a child by birth or adoption of a police officer, firefighter, rescue or ambulance squad member, corrections facility employee, or active National Guard member who died after January 1, 1976, as a direct result of performing their official duties. For more information, kindly visit the scholarship's website to view the approved schools.