Archive for January, 2008

Sale of prom attire dresses up memorial scholarships

Awards given in memory of 2 high school students
As many young women prepare to open their checkbooks to purchase prom dresses, new dresses purchased at a special sale Saturday helped two scholarship funds in honor of two McClain High School students who never made it to their senior prom.
Kelsey Davis, a freshman at McClain, organized […]

Monday, January 21st, 2008

21 college scholarships available through community foundation

The Greater Salina Community Foundation has scholarships available through 21 different funds for area high school seniors and college students. Scholarship applications are available from counselors at area high schools or on the foundation Web site at www.gscf.org.
For more information, call Michelle Griffin, affiliate/scholarship coordinator at the foundation at 823-1800.
A list of available scholarshps follows:
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Monday, January 21st, 2008

How to Get Free Money for College

There is free money for college if you know where to look for it. In fact, one of the largest scholarship-search Web sites, FastWeb.com, boasts that it lists more than $3.4 billion dollars of awards in its scholarship-matching database. But you need to start your search now, because most scholarships for the coming academic year […]

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Scholarships slated for Mindanao HS students

OUTSTANDING students from Mindanao’s public high schools will be adjudged as recipients of the second Vice President Noli de Castro Academic Excellence and Exemplary Leadership Awards as the national selection committee began in Davao City on Saturday.
Eleven finalists had been pre-qualified from among the hundreds of Mindanao’s exceptional students who joined the nationwide search.
Lawyer […]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Hottinger announces 186 scholarships

State Rep. Jay Hottinger, R-Newark, says 186 scholarships are available for upcoming graduates interested in attending one of Ohio’s proprietary schools or colleges.
Qualifying schools include various business colleges, career colleges, trade schools and technical schools. The full tuition, one-half tuition and specific amount scholarships range in value from $2,000 to $12,100. Applicants do not have […]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

UP to offer scholarships to promote Urdu

The Uttar Pradesh government will grant scholarships to students studying Urdu in government schools. The aim is to promote the language in the country’s most populous state, which has a vast Muslim population, said officials.
The scholarships will be awarded by the Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy, a state government body constituted to promote the language, to […]

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Exhibitors receive scholarships during state farm show

Twenty-five students received $3,500 scholarships from the Pennsylvania Farm Show Scholarship Foundation prior to the Sale of Champions on Jan. 8 at the 2008 Pennsylvania Farm Show.
Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff presented the scholarship awards, explaining the important role youth play in Pennsylvania’s No. 1 industry.
“It is very gratifying when so many young people are active […]

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

School foundation awards scholarships, collects extra money

When Reagan middle-schoolers are busy making videos with the school’s new digital cameras, they probably won’t think about how those items got in their hands.
For the record, they have seven dedicated community members to thank.
The seven are members of the Dixon Public Schools Foundation, a nonprofit, tax-exempt endowment founded in 1992. It is a separate […]

Friday, January 18th, 2008