Archive for December, 2007

$1,000 scholarship available from Ford

Archie Cochrane Motors is sponsoring the Built Ford Tough college scholarship program for students in the FFA programs at the high schools in Roberts, Red Lodge, Belfry, Joliet and Fromberg, the Bridger High School-Clarksville FFA and Billings Career Center urban agriculture program.
Up to 700 FFA members nationally will receive a $1,000 college scholarship.

FFA members must […]

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Knowledge Bowl team forms scholarship fund

A group of Kamiak graduates have announced the formation of a new non-profit organization called the “Robster Craws Fund.”
The Robster Craws are a group of five Kamiak 2005 Graduates (Sam Wrzeszcz, Jeff Jones, Steven Huang, James Chin, and Keisuke Natsume) who were all members of the same Knowledge Bowl team at Kamiak.
By their senior year […]

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Daniels program provides scholarship

The University of Colorado-Denver said Wednesday that the Daniels Opportunity Scholarship Program has awarded it two grants totaling $150,000, to provide scholarships to nontraditional students at the school’s campus downtown and the School of Nursing on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Funding for the downtown campus is aimed at military veterans who are just starting their […]

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

BOPP Institutes Scholarship Scheme For Its Catchments Area

Management of Benso Oil Palm Plantations (BOPP) has instituted a scholarship scheme for the three communities in its area of operation in the Wassa Mphor District in the Western Region. The communities are Adum Banso, Benso and Dominase.
Under the scheme, the company, for a start, will offer six scholarships for brilliant but needy Senior […]

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

UNCF, Google award $5,000 scholarship to transfer student

A junior Cal State Long Beach student is one of 11 students selected from across the nation to receive a $5,000 scholarship from the 2007 United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Google Scholarship Program.
Tanisha Washington, a management information systems major originally from small-town Indiana, plans to use her award to help pay for school expenses […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Bridgton Academy to Offer Scholarship Grants to Maine Students

In the spirit of the Alfond College Challenge announced on December 11, 2007, Bridgton Academy, of North Bridgton, Maine, will grant a $2,000 scholarship to every young man who is born in Maine, who graduates from a Maine high school, and who applies and meets the Academy’s admission requirements. Named the BA for ME […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Students describe future plans to snag scholarship money

Ask students what they want to be when they grow up and you’ll get some surprising answers.
State Treasurer John Perdue recently conducted the first-ever SMART529 essay contest in which students were asked to answer the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
More than 1,100 students entered the contest. State Board of […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Palm Springs Police Officers Raise Money for Scholarship Program

A record number of people participated in the Eighth Annual Palm Springs Police Officers Association (POA) Golf Tournament on Friday and raised an unprecedented amount of money - more than $10,000 — for this particular tournament.
The proceeds from the tournament support the POA’s Scholarship program in the names of two fallen Palm Springs Police Officers, […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Elks announce scholarship contest

Exalted Ruler Debra Crampton of Oneonta Elks Lodge No. 1312 announced a joint Elks National Foundation and New York State Elks Association scholarship competition for the 2008-09 academic year.
The Elks National Foundation “Most Valuable Student _ Finalist” Scholarship/Leadership Award, open to all New York state high school seniors, will offer 25 scholarships ranging in amounts […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Student essays welcomed for $500 scholarship prize

The Costa Mesa City Council has announced a “creative media” contest in which students are invited to answer: “What motivates young voters, and why don’t they vote?”
Winners will receive a framed certificate recognizing his or her achievements, along with a $500 tuition scholarship. Councilwoman Katrina Foley encouraged students to “get creative” and stressed that any […]

Friday, December 14th, 2007