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Scholarships available for gifted programs, including summer camps
I’ve been posting about lots of summer programs lately. If you’ve explored some options, you’ve seen that they can get quite expensive. Today, I wanted to let you know about a scholarship that can be used for gifted programs, including summer programs.
The Board of Trustees Scholarship is offered through the National Society for the Gifted and Talented, which happens to be the parent company that operates the Summer Institute for the Gifted. NSGT will award six scholarships to deserving candidates — two each in the amounts of $250, $500 and $1,000. Summer programs are not the only eligible uses for the funds. They may also be used for online or weekend programs, or for individual research projects.
Applications are due April 1, 2011.
A different kind of college scholarship — one that helps students get into outstanding schools
Every capable student should have the chance to get into a premier college. That’s the idea behind the QuestBridge College Prep Scholarship, which helps lower-income, high-achieving students navigate the admissions and financial aid application processes required by the best schools.
Current juniors can fill out the free application now through March 29, 2011. Available awards include:
- Full scholarships to select summer programs, including the Pre-College Program at Emory University
- College admissions counseling
- All-expenses-paid campus visits to QuestBridge partner schools, which include some of the most respected names in higher education (think Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford and their peers)
The QuestBridge scholarship program also prepares students to apply for the QuestBridge National College Match program, which pairs exceptional high-school seniors with prestigious colleges that will provide them full scholarships.
Just a few days left to register for biology competition
The deadline to enter the USA Biology Olympiad is Feb. 4. USABO is open to students in grades 9-12 who are nominated by their schools.
Participants will be given a multiple choice exam at their school. Those who score in the top 10 percent on the first exam are given a second exam, also administered at their school. From these exams, 20 finalists are chosen for an intensive training program at Purdue University. Four students from these 20 will ultimately represent the United States at the International Biology Olympiad.
Short essay contest with $2,500 prize
Here’s another potential project for winter break: Olive Garden is conducting a short essay contest for kids in 1st through 12th grades. To enter, the student should write an essay between 50 and 250 words on the topic, “Describe how furthering your education beyond high school will help make your dreams come true.”
The grand prize for the best essay is a trip for four to New York and a $2,500 savings bond. There will also be 12 first prizes — one per grade level — of a $500 savings bond and dinner for four at your local Olive Garden restaurant.
The deadline to submit essays is Jan. 21, 2011. You can pick up an entry form at your local Olive Garden restaurant or enter online.
Admittedly, this isn’t a gifted thing per se. But when I saw a flier about this today at lunch, I thought that surely our gifted children have dreams as big as anyone’s!
Creative writing contest for grades 4-12
The long, winter break could be the perfect time to have your little writer start working on a piece of poetry or fiction to enter in the 2011 Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards competition. Contest winners will have their work published in a collection.
Short stories (limited to 1,250 words) and poems will be accepted from Jan. 15, 2011 until August 15, 2011. All works must focus on one of the following themes:
- Magic of adventure
- Serendipity
- Beyond the horizon
- Unexpected answers
- Nothing set in stone
- Creating solutions
The contest is sponsored by the National Association for Gifted Children, among others; however, children do not need to be enrolled in a gifted program to enter.
The Web site I linked to above doesn’t have much posted for the 2011 contest yet, but I assume they will once they are officially receiving entries.
Math and science projects can win up to $100,000 in scholarships
The 2010 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology is now open. High-school students work in teams (or high-school seniors can work independently) to conduct intensive, original research. Projects must be completed by October 1, 2010. Winners receive scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $100,000.
The competition is a joint project between the Siemens Foundation and the College Board.
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