Teen Scholarship

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This scholarship is for students living in Alaska.  No, I haven’t forgotten you guys and gals.

The UNCF Alaska Leadership Council launches the Alaska Scholarship Program designed to help reduce financial barriers and increase access for Alaska students to attend college. Applicants must be an Alaskan resident for at least 1 year prior to 1/31/2012. The prize is $1000. The deadline is April 12th 2013.

Through the Alaskan Scholarship Program, the UNCF Alaska Leadership Council will provide 5 graduating Alaska high school seniors with a scholarship to attend an accredited 2 or 4 year college, university, trade or technical school commencing Fall Semester of 2013. The scholarship awarded annually for up to four years. This new scholarship program is a part of the UNCF Alaska Leadership Council’s community outreach program.

Go to http://www.uncf.org for more information and click onto scholarships.  Good luck!

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The Ayn Rand Fellowship is coming up in the spring.  This fellowship requires entrants to read a book written by Ayn Rand then respond to one out of three essays.  The winning essays are located on the site.  The book are intense but if you get a head start you’d do fine.  It doesn’t matter if you believe in her beliefs.  Why not try it anyway.

The foundation awards up to $10,000 in scholarship money so you’d be crazy not to at least give it a shot.  Just go to www.aynrand.org

 

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Frame My Future Scholarship Contest 2013

One of my blog readers sent me information on this contest.  Check it out!

The “Frame My Future” Scholarship Contest is a chance to show the world just how creative you can be. This contest does not require you to fill out long extensive forms and our requirements are very simple. This contest lets you be as creative as you wish. Have fun and enjoy this contest!

Who Can Enter?

The 2013 scholarship contest is open to students attending a US college or university full time for the 2013-2014 academic year (community college, undergraduate or graduate school). Entrants must also be a legal US resident. Please read the Official Rules.

How Do I Enter?

The Entry Period is Open.

Entry Period: October 2, 2012 – March 5th, 2013

To enter this contest, create an original entry piece that shares with us what you want to achieve in your personal and professional life after college. Follow the theme: This is how I “Frame My Future.” Your creation must be submitted through the online entry form, within one image, in a .JPG or .PNG format, and must be fully viewable and/or readable online. The entry form also includes a section to submit a short accompanying description of your entry piece (maximum of 500 characters). Some example entry piece ideas:

photograph collage poem drawing painting	graphic design short, typed essay scrapbook style page anything you create within one image

Please Note: The complete and overall entry piece must be original and the entrant’s own work. For example, do not submit a company advertisement, photo you found online, or stock art as your sole and final entry piece. You may incorporate these elements within your creative entry. Submission of an entry piece that is not the entrant’s own original work, may result in disqualification. A professional portrait, such as a senior photo, will not be accepted as an entry. These are owned by the photographer.

 

What are the Prizes?

$6,000 in Scholarships! We will be awarding $1,000 scholarships to five “success-driven” students! One of these five students (Grand Prize Winner) will also earn a matching $1,000 donation for their 2013-2014 attended college or university! This donation goes to the school’s general scholarship endowment fund, on behalf of the Grand Prize Winner. All 24 Finalists (5 Scholarship Winners and remaining 19 Finalists) will also receive a commemorative “Frame My Future” frame featuring their entry.

How are the Winners Chosen?

Church Hill Classics will select 24 entries to be named Finalists. Finalist judging is based on entry piece and accompanying description in accordance with the contest guidelines, relation to the ‘Frame My Future” theme, and the most creative entries deemed by the judges.

The public then votes for their favorite Finalist Entry during a one month voting period: April 2 – May 2, 2013. The five entries with the most votes will each earn a $1,000 scholarship. The top vote-getter also earns the $1,000 scholarship. The top vote-getter also earns the $1,000 donation for their school!

Go to www.framemyfuture.com for more information.

 

Teen Scholarship

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This scholarship is one for all you teen animal lovers.

The “A Voice for Animals” Essay Contest is open to high school and home schooled students who are under the age of 19. To be eligible, you must establish or become involved with a project that address either the mistreatment of one animal species or one cause of animal suffering, or the preservation of one species threatened with extinction. Your project must be documented in the form of an original essay accompanied by photographs, a digital photo journal / album, or an original video. Applicable Majors:

All Fields of Study

Deadline July 31. 2012

http://www.hennet.org/contest.php

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Hands Along the Nile Development Services Essay Contest

This scholarship is for college students. I just cut and pasted the information so I wouldn’t forget anything.

Essay Question:

“What lessons can American politicians and people learn from the Egyptian Revolution? Particular consideration will be given to answers which cover both social and political lessons.”

One first place winner will receive a $4,000 award, one second place winner will receive a $3,000 award, one third place winner will receive a $1,500 award and two honorable mentions will receive $750 each.

To be eligible to enter this contest, applicants must be registered full-time graduate or undergraduate student at an accredited college or university in the United States at the time of entry. High school students entering college in the upcoming fall semester are also eligible for entry in the contest.

Contest Rules and Regulations:
– Each essay must reflect the contestant’s own research, writing and original thinking.
– Only one essay may be submitted by each contestant.
– Include a letter on school stationary from the Registrar’s Office, verifying your eligibility.
– Papers should be no more than 2,500 words.
– Papers may include text and graphics.
– The essay should be titled, typed in 12-point font, double-spaced with 1-inch margins and numbered pages.
– If outside material is referenced, please utilize standard MLA or APA format for your citations.
– The body of the paper must not identify the author to allow for anonymous judging.
– Required cover sheet Information: title, author name, address, phone number, email, school affiliation and status (undergraduate or graduate).
– All entries become the property of Hands Along the Nile Development Services and will not be returned. Entries may be used in future publications of HANDS’ newsletter and other materials.

Essay submissions will be judged based on multiple aspects of style and content. All judging by HANDS is final. In addition to the eligibility notification letter from the Registrar’s Office, please mail two stapled copies of your essay with attached cover sheet to:

Hands Along the Nile Development Services, Inc.
1601 N. Kent Street
Suite 1014
Arlington, VA 22209

Submissions must be postmarked by July 3rd; winners will be announced the following January.
Applicable Majors:

All Fields of Study

Website

http://handsalongthenile.org/

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Here is another essay/video contest.  The prizes are really good $5000!  cut and pasted the information off the website.  The photo is of John Templeton’s home.  There so so much info on the background of the contest that I included it with my post.  Good luck!

In 1997, a philanthropist named John Templeton published a book called Discovering the Laws of Life. In that book, he gathered together the advice offered by the major religious scriptures of the world, various schools of philosophical thought, storytellers, scientists, artists, and historians regarding one crucial question: “What does it mean to live a good life?” To this day, that text remains a wonderful source of inspiration to people around the world, and this year, which marks the centenary of John Templeton’s birth, the publishing company that bears his name is releasing a revised commemorative edition of that book entitled The Essential Worldwide Laws of Life.

To mark the occasion, Templeton Press has also established this scholarship contest. Having a purpose, a calling, a sense of why one was placed on this earth was one of Templeton’s original laws of life. To be a happy and successful person, one must have a purpose.

If you are a high school senior in the U.S., take some time to think about why you are in this world. Create a vision for yourself and the world you want to create.

If you share that vision with us, it could earn you $5,000.

Contest Objective

Your objective is to create a written or video response to the following prompt.

In his book, The Essential Worldwide Laws of Life, Sir John Templeton outlines a basic approach to finding purpose in one’s life.

There is a simple way you can discover your special purpose in life. Draw up a list of all the qualities you value in yourself and that other people admire in you. If you’re a humorous person, you have the ability to uplift and entertain. If clear thinking is your strong suit and you’re skilled at developing ideas, accept this as a gift that can benefit those around you in many ways. Since we sometime think of ourselves as lacking in good qualities, it is important to dig a little to unearth those skills and talents that may lie hidden.

Next, examine the ways in which you interact with other people and make a list of those ways that work the best. Does it excite you to teach someone a skill that will help him? Do you enjoy simply listening while someone shares a problem with you? Are you happiest when organizing a group for a project, or perhaps when encouraging someone who feels hopeless about herself and her life?

Finally, imagine what your world would be like under the best of all possible circumstances. Would it be clean, peaceful, and productive? Form a mental picture of the world that you’d like you and your loved ones to live in, and write down that vision in as much specific detail as possible.

Your mission in life is to have a “why” to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support that purpose, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life’s experiences may prove to be, you will be able to endure and even prevail.

Using the steps described above, consider your purpose. How might you fulfill it in the next five years? What guiding principles and goals will help you live according to your purpose in the next five years and beyond? If you keep your purpose in mind, where do you think you will find yourself in five years?

Judging

Judges will look at the quality of the ideas presented, the creativity of entry, and your command of the medium chosen for the entry.

Eligibility

Entrants must be high-school seniors graduating in spring or summer 2012 and planning to be enrolled part- or full-time in an undergraduate degree program at an accredited college,  university. or trade school in the United States or its territories in fall 2012.

Complete Rules

Written entries should be between 500 and 1,000 words.

To submit written entries, contestants must either send:

• An electronic submission, saved as a Microsoft Word file (.doc or .docx) or a PDF file to tpinfo@templetonpress.org.
• A printed copy to: Laws of Life Contest, Templeton Press, 300 Conshohocken State Road, Suite 550, West Conshohocken, PA 19428

Be sure to include your full name, e-mail address, and graduation year.

Video entries should be two minutes or less in length. Entries must be published to one of the major video hosting sites such as YouTube, Dailymotion, or Vimeo.

To submit video entries, contestants must send a link to tpinfo@templetonpress.org.

Be sure to include your full name, e-mail address, and graduation year.

By entering in either format, you give Templeton Press the right to use your submissions for promotional activities.

Prizes

Essay contest:

• First prize receives a $5,000 scholarship and a session with a professional purpose coach
• Second prize receives a $3,000 scholarship
• Third prize receives a $1,000 scholarship

Video contest:

• First prize receives a $5,000 scholarship and a session with a professional purpose coach
• Second prize receives a $3,000 scholarship
• Third prize receives a $1,000 scholarship

Deadline

Entries must be received by 11:59 pm EST on August 31, 2012

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All About Education Scholarship 2012

ScholarshipExperts.com is again offering the All About Education Scholarship in 2012. One scholarship recipient will be chosen to receive a $3,000 scholarship.

Applicants must:

• Be thirteen (13) years of age or older at the time of application
• Be legal residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia
• Be currently enrolled (or enroll no later than the fall of 2018) in an accredited post-secondary institution of higher education
• Complete an online scholarship search profile at ScholarshipExperts.com
• Submit an online short written response (250 words or less) for the question:
  “How will a $3,000 scholarship for education make a difference in your life?”

Application Deadline:
April 30, 2012 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time

Complete scholarship program rules for the All About Education Scholarship.
Scholarship winner will be notified on or around June 30, 2012.

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I found a site called scholarshipsexperts.com  it’s a free site for finding scholarships.  I don’t know if it’s any good but since I can’t check them all out and post them you can check out the site.  I am still working on reading up on the long list of scholarships I found.  Some of the deadlines passed so I am weeding through the scholarships which have expired deadlines.

 

Teen Fellowship – The Ayn Rand Fellowship

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The  AynRand Foundation Fellowships are coming soon.  These fellowships  are essay competitions.  There are several essay questions that applicants can select from. There is another competition coming up in September but I didn’t add it to my list.  Some of these competitions offer very large prizes so it’s best to start writing the essays early so you can get feedback.

Anthem Essay Contest Information

Eligibility: 8th, 9th and 10th Graders

Entry Deadline: March 20, 2012

FIRST PRIZE: $2,000
5 SECOND PRIZES: $500
10 THIRD PRIZES: $200
45 FINALISTS: $50
175 SEMIFINALISTS: $30

We the Living Essay Contest Information

Eligibility: 10th, 11th and 12th Graders

Entry Deadline: May 5, 2012

FIRST PRIZE: $3,000
5 SECOND PRIZES: $1000
5 THIRD PRIZES: $300
25 FINALISTS: $50
80 SEMIFINALISTS: $25

The Fountainhead Essay Contest Information

Eligibility: 11th and 12th Graders

Entry Deadline: April 26, 2012

FIRST PRIZE: $10,000
5 SECOND PRIZES: $2,000
10 THIRD PRIZES: $1,000
45 FINALISTS: $100
175 SEMIFINALISTS: $50

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