Scholarships Available

The Foreclosure.com Scholarship Program will award five undergraduates with minimum $1,000 scholarships. Students must respond to a prompt explaining that they have acquired $150,000 in cash to be used specifically for a distressed real estate purchase. They must outline a detailed strategy that ensures maximum return on investment, personal satisfaction and/or financial profit. Responses must be between 800-2,000 words and submitted by Dec. 1. First place winner will receive $5,000. Second through 5th will receive $1,000. More information can be found at foreclosure.com/scholarship.

Your Local Security is sponsoring “America’s Best Blogging Scholarship” for $1,000. Students may enter by posting responses to the question asking to define the single most important issue in the upcoming 2012 election. Students must explain the issue and why and how they propose the U.S. comes to a solution that benefits the majority. After posting, students must include the embed code and share online via Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Entries will be judged by content and validation and “tweets,” “likes,” “stumbles” and “+1s” will be taken into account. The submission deadline is Dec. 31 and the winner will be announced Feb. 1. More information can be found at yourlocalsecurity.com/scholarship.

U.S. Bank is awarding 40 scholarships in the amount of $1,000 through a random drawing process. Undergraduate students attending an eligible four-year college or university participating in the U.S. Bank No Free Education Loan Program are eligible to apply. More information about this scholarship opportunity can be found at usbank.com/studentloans.

Scholarships are available through Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri, Inc.,
for the 2012-2013 academic year. Last year they awarded more than $13,000 in scholarships. Two students selected by the Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri will be submitted to Central Region as an applicant and to National Gardens Club Inc., as a Missouri applicant and will compete for a Central Region and National Scholarship. The application is available at www.gardenclub.org/Youth/Scholarships.aspx.
The deadline to apply March 1.
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