Scholarship of the Day

Description:

Since 1972, the American Geological Institute has administered the Minority Participation Program Geoscience Student Scholarships. The goal for this program is to develop the professional corps of underrepresented ethnic-minority students in the geosciences. Recipients of AGI Geoscience Student Scholarships are provided with small financial awards and matched with a mentor from the geoscience community to foster whole professional development of the awardee. Each award consists of both scholarship support as well as support for professional development experiences for successful candidates. Professional development experiences that qualify include field camp, professional society memberships, and/or travel and registration to a professional meeting of one of AGI’s member societies.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.agiweb.org/mpp/

Deadline:

March 15, 2010

Description:

Candidates must provide strong evidence that they are pursuing managerial careers in the private club industry. A candidate must have completed his/her freshman year of college and be enrolled for the full 2010-2011 academic year in an accredited four-year institution. In addition, the candidate must have achieved and continue to maintain a grade point average of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, or 4.5 on a 6.0 scale.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.clubfoundation.org/schlrgrntfm/2010JoePerdueScholarship.pdf

Deadline:

May 01, 2010

Description:

NBNA is committed to excellence in education and conducts continuing education programs for nurses and allied health professionals throughout the year. The association provides annual scholarships for students.

Scholarships provide funding for continuing education. This funding enables nurses to grow and better contribute their talents to the health and healthcare of our communities.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.nbna.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=133

Deadline:

April 15, 2010

Description:

Scholarships will be awarded to graduating high school seniors or first year college students who intend to make music a central part of their future life. Those who have entered as high school seniors are eligible to compete again as college freshmen, unless they have been previous first place winners.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.glennmiller.org/scholarships.html

Deadline:

March 15, 2010

Description:

The purpose of the Army Nurse Corps Association (ANCA) Education Fund is to award scholarships to students attending accredited baccalaureate or graduate nursing and anesthesia programs. Other non-traditional nursing programs may also be eligible. In 2010, scholarships will be awarded in memory of Captain Gussie M. Jones, AN, who died of non-battle related causes in Iraq. She was the first African-American Army Nurse to die while assigned in a theater of operations.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.e-anca.org/ANCAScshpApp10.pdf

Deadline:

April 01, 2010

Description:

The NRAEF understands the importance of scholarships and is committed to making them accessible. We offer a variety of merit-based scholarships to students who want an education and a career in the foodservice industry as well as professional development scholarships for restaurant and foodservice educators.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.nraef.org/scholarships/apply/

Deadline:

March 31, 2010

Description:

25 student-athletes will win a $7,500 scholarship and a spot in a special milk mustache ad to run in USA TODAY. Want more? You’ll also get an all-expense paid trip to an exciting awards ceremony at Disney Wide World of Sports’ Milk House in Orlando, FL and an induction into the Milk House Hall of Fame.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.bodybymilk.com/sammy_scholarship.php

Deadline:

March 05, 2010

Description:

Each year at its national convention in July, the NFB gives a broad array of thirty scholarships to recognize achievement by blind scholars.  All applicants for these scholarships:

1. must be legally blind (PDF document) in both eyes, and
2. must be residing in the United States, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico, and
3. must be pursuing or planning to pursue a full-time, postsecondary course of study in a degree program at a United States institution in the 2010 scholastic year, except that one scholarship may be given to a person employed full-time while attending school part-time, and
4. must participate in the entire NFB national convention and in all scheduled scholarship program activities.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.nfb.org/nfb/scholarship_program.asp

Deadline:

March 31, 2010

Description:

If you are a young person today, you may wonder how you will ever pay for college. If you are a federal employee, the challenges may at times seem insurmountable. FEEA sponsors the only merit-based scholarship competition program open exclusively to federal employees, their spouses, and their children–rewarding hard workers through our merit-based program.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.feea.org/index.php?Itemid=46

Deadline:

March 31, 2010

Description:

The Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund announced on September 9 that it will provide $8.4 million in needs-based postsecondary scholarships to 520 eligible members of the 9/11 community for the 2009-2010 academic year. More than $4.2 million has been distributed for the September 2009 semester; the remaining half will be dispersed in December for the semester beginning January 2010. Since the first awards in January 2002, the Families of Freedom Fund will, with this year’s awards, have distributed more than $46.6 million to approximately 1,400 individuals.

How to Apply:

To apply visit – http://www.familiesoffreedom.org/

Deadline:

May 15, 2010