9 Easy, Weird, and Nontraditional Scholarship to Pay for School
#1 - The Answers.com Scholarship
Answers.com
Website: http://scholarship.answers.com
The Answers.com Scholarship is unique in that you can demonstrate your knowledge on ANY subject (from Lego blocks to Romanian history!) to become eligible for the scholarship. Applicants provide quality, original answers to 50 questions of their own choosing online at Answers.com and then submit their application to enter. A panel of educators and education volunteers then review the answers and select the applicants who posted the best answers to receive one of the 13 scholarships.
Scholarship Amount: One $5,000 scholarship, two $2,500 scholarships, and ten $1,000 scholarships
Who Scholarship is for: Students in the USA/UK/Canada/Australia/India/Ireland/New Zealand who will be enrolling in undergraduate classes during the 2010-2011 school year. Deadline March 31, 2010
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Feeling destructive? Got some flashcards? Then the Flashcard Scholarship could be all yours.
#2 - Flashcard Scholarship 2010
SimpleLeap Software
Get a scholarship to stop studying the old-fashioned way & destroy your paper flashcards. Make a video of yourself destroying your flashcards, submit it to YouTube and get your friends to view and rate your video. It's that straightforward.
Website: http://www.flashcardscholarship.com
Scholarship Amount: One $500 scholarship to use for anything related to school
Who Scholarship is for: Any High school or college student (yes even grad school students are welcome). It can be part time, full time, home school, online, whatever, but you must be an actively enrolled student in someone's high school, college or university at the time of your appliciation.
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Would you consider yourself an average student? Do you attend Ball State University? Good you too can get a scholarship!
#3 - Letterman Telecommunications Scholarship
Ball State University
For full-time students who are first-quarter juniors through first-quarter seniors, who are majors or minors in telecommunications. B) Grades are not a criterion or condition for eligibility or consideration. C) Applicants must have reasonable expectation of becoming a professional in the telecommunications industry. D) Except for the first scholarship, each scholarship is to be awarded on the basis of a creative endeavor. This may be in the form of a written project, a research effort, an audio tape, a video tape, a film or similar presentation so long as it can be clearly defined as creative in the area of telecommunications.
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Do you need a scholarship for changing? There's a scholarship for that!
#4 - CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR Step Up Program
Positive Change Award
Website: http://www.bigfun.org/generalinfo/stepup.asp
The Step Up Positive Change Awards, a non-traditional scholarship program because it highlights significant and productive life changes made by at-risk youth. Ideal candidates are youth who may have been in trouble in the past, but are making significant strides to improve their lives and their communities. (see attached press release for a better description)
Scholarship Amount: 1st place awarded $500, 2nd place $300 and 3rd place $200 ($1000 total donated by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) Award winners must designate an organization to receive the monetary reward.
Who Scholarship is for: Any California resident, aged 16-25 who has made a significant and lasting life change is encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates are youth who may have been in trouble in the past, but are making significant strides to improve their lives and their communities. Candidates need to be actively involved as a member, employee or volunteer in an outreach program or non-profit organization.
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Are you a safe driver? Can you tell people about it on video, good apply for the Safety Scholars Scholarship.
#5 - Safety Scholars Video Contest
Bridgestone Americas
Website: www.safetyscholars.com
This scholarship is different from others because it's not an essay, it's Internet-based and the public gets to decide who wins. Here are the details: Car accidents are the number one killer of teens. The Safety Scholars Video Contest was developed as an extension of Bridgestone Americas' youth auto safety education initiatives. Students submit a short, compelling video, 25 or 55 seconds long, about safe driving. A team of judges cull down the entries to the top 10, which are then posted on SafetyScholars.com for online voting by the general public. The top three to receive votes win the scholarship. In addition to the scholarship, the winners have the opportunity to get their videos turned into a PSA and broadcast on TV stations across the country.
Scholarship Amount: Three $5,000 scholarships are awarded
Who Scholarship is for: Contest is open to U.S. residents ages 16 to 21 (must have a valid driver's license and be enrolled as a full-time student)
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Get a scholarship just for not eating meat!
#6 - Vegetarian Resource Group Scholarship
The Vegetarian Resource Group
Website: http://www.vrg.org/student/scholar.htm
The Vegetarian Resource Group each year will award $10,000 in college scholarship money to graduating U.S. high school students who have promoted vegetarianism in their schools and/or communities.
Who is it for? Vegetarians. Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or fowl. Entries may only be sent by students graduating from high school in the spring.
Scholarship Amount: Two awards of $5,000 each will be given. Deadline is February 20 of each year. Currently, we will accept applications postmarked on or before February 20, 2011.
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#7 - "Frame My Future" Scholarship Contest
Church Hill Classics
WEBSITE: http://www.framemyfuture.com
To enter, you must submit an original creation that expresses how you frame your future (what you would like to accomplish in your life). The creation needs to be submitted online in a jpeg image format. Some example entries: photo, drawing, collage, poem, painting, graphic design, short typed explanation. The entry can be anything as long as it is the entrant's own work, it fits the _frame my future_ theme, and it is submitted through an image. Entries are accompanied with a short description, under 500 characters. Once all of the entries are submitted, Church Hill Classics selects 24 Finalists, which are then posted online for a one month public voting period. The five entries with the most votes will each earn a $1,000 scholarship. The top vote-getter also earns a $1,000 donation for their school!
SCHOLARSHIP Amount: $1,000 each (Five students each win a $1,000 scholarship, and one $1,000 donation goes to Grand Prize Winner's college/university. Donation goes to the school's scholarship endowment fund on behalf of the Grand Prize Winner.)
WHO IS THE SCHOLARSHIP FOR? - Open to anyone (legal resident of the US), who will be attending college full time for the following academic year. (this could be any undergrad or graduate school)
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Have you lived in a foreign country before? You guessed it, you can get a scholarship for that!
#8 - "Life in a Flying House" 2010 Expat Youth Scholarship
Clements International
Website: www.expatyouthscholarship.com
Clements International's "Life in a Flying House" 2010 Expat Youth Scholarship will award $10,000 to students ages 12-18 of any nationality who have resided in a foreign country for at least two consecutive years. This year's theme asks, "Where would you go in your flying house?" The "flying house" is inspired by the idea that students who spend their childhoods moving between different countries and cultures acquire unique life experiences.
The scholarship contest offers expat students a chance to use their experiences living in a foreign country to imagine where their journey might take them next. Entries consist of an essay (500 - 750 words) and creative image or photograph that incorporates their own personalized flying house. A total of six winners will be selected from two age categories (12-15 and 16-18) based on the quality of the essay, how well their image creatively illustrates their answer to the essay question, and overall creativity. The scholarship entry deadline is Thursday, May 13, 2010.
How much is the scholarship for? A total of $10,000 for six students in two age categories (First place - $3,000, Second place - $1,500, Third place - $500)
Who is the scholarship for? Students ages 12-18 of any nationality who have lived outside of their home country for at least two consecutive years
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#9 - Hokey Pokey Scholarship Fund
College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho
This scholarship is funded by the royalties from the song, Doing the Hokey Pokey, which was created as an activity for guests at the nearby Sun Valley ski resort. Simply write a brief essay (up to one-page) describing the difference that music has made in your life, why you chose it as a course of study and what music means to you.
Who is the scholarship for? Full-time, second-year student enrolled in the music program at the College of Southern Idaho; Recipients need not demonstrate financial need, nor does the receipt of another award (unless it pays academic fees) preclude receipt of this scholarship.
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