Scholarship Opportunities

Caroline H. Newhouse Scholarship

Provided By:
Career Transitions for Dancers
Deadline:
July 08, 2009
Type of Award:
Scholarship
Amount:
$2000
Awards Available:
Unspecified
Website:
http://www.careertransition.org/Programs/ScholarshipsAndGrants/
Description:
The Caroline H. Newhouse Scholarship is available to professional dancers who wish to pursue educational and retraining opportunities, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, as well as skill and vocational certification. To be eligible for this award, you must provide documentation of 100 weeks or more of paid professional dance employment in the United States within a career-span of 7 or more years, and provide documentation of total gross earnings of a minimum of $56,000 arrived at by combining the annual gross income of the 7 highest earning years of a performing dance career.
Applicable Majors:
Unspecified

Collegiate Inventors Competition

Provided By:
Collegiate Inventors Competition
Deadline:
June 16, 2009
Type of Award:
Academic Contest
Amount:
$25000
Awards Available:
12
Website:
http://www.invent.org/collegiate/overview.html
Description:
The Collegiate Inventors Competition is open to students who have been enrolled full time in a college or university over the past 12 months. You must submit an original idea, process or technology that will be judged on originality and inventiveness, as well as on its potential value to society (socially, environmentally, and economically), and on its range or scope of use. Up to four students may work together as a team. However, only one prize will be awarded per entry.
Applicable Majors:
Unspecified

In The River They Swim Essay Competition

Provided By:
SEVEN Fund
Deadline:
September 01, 2009
Type of Award:
Essay Contest
Amount:
$10000
Awards Available:
Unspecified
Website:
http://www.intherivertheyswim.com/competition.html
Description:
The In The River They Swim Essay Competition is available to students who have had experience living or working in the world's poorest countries (or poor regions of developed nations). In no more than 2000 words, you must share your personal journey you have had doing enterprise solutions to poverty. You may include stories about your work, a useful experience, a person you met, or a framework you have developed or used. Essays should be deeply introspective and probe the author's emotions and journey within development, globalization, and enterprise solutions to poverty.
Applicable Majors:
Unspecified

Apogee Search Scholarship Program

Provided By:
Apogee Search
Deadline:
June 01, 2009
Type of Award:
Contest
Amount:
$500
Awards Available:
Unspecified
Website:
http://www.apogee-search.com/scholarship/index.html
Description:
The Apogee Search Scholarship Program is available to students who are over the age of 18. You must create a social media campaign for a generic product using one social media website of your choice and at least four of the following listed social media websites: Myspace, 2 nd life, Facebook, Xanga, Youtube, Daily Motion, Blogger, Flikr, Deviant art, and Zooomr. Your campaign must be explained in a product outline.