scholarships for technical education (Score 1)

As far as I know, what you are describing is unavailable at the undergraduate level. However, graduate level education (eg producing PhD's in computer science) is mostly funded through government money. For example, I spent 7.5 years getting a CS PhD at a top private university. I got free tuition (~$20k/year) and a small salary (~$15k/year) that was funded by DARPA research grants and an NSF Fellowship. This funding was all merit based and is extremely competitive.