National Association of Hispanic Journalists

The NAHJ has numerous schlolarship opportunities for students interested in journalism. The information at the site is for last year’s scholarship. Check the site on a regular basis to ensure that you don’t miss the due date.

The list below is from the site

National Association of Hispanic Journalists Scholarships

Open to all

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NAHJ General Scholarships – Rubén Salazar Fund
Ranging from $1,000 – $2,000 per student, these scholarships are awarded to college-bound high school seniors, college undergraduates and graduate students pursuing careers in English or Spanish-language broadcast journalism.NAHJ Ford Motor Company Scholarships
These scholarships of up to $2,500 will be awarded to students pursuing careers in print, broadcast, online and visual journalism. College-bound high school seniors, college undergraduate or graduate students are eligible as long as they have a 2.0 average. These scholarships are made possible by Ford Motor Company Fund, an effort to support young aspiring Latino journalists.

The Gates Millennium Scholars

Students with at least a 3.3 GPA and who receive free and reduced lunch should apply for the Gates Scholarship. The application is completely online and is due at the end of December. Applicants must have school personnel nominate them (that me) and someone must write your recommendation. I have registered at the site as both. See me if you meet the criteria. We will need to get started now.

From the site

Eligibility Criteria

Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they:

• Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native*, Asian Pacific Islander American** or Hispanic American
• Are a citizen, national or legal permanent resident of the United States
• Have attained a cumulative high school GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale (unweighted) or have earned a GED
• Will be enrolling for the first time at a U.S. accredited***college or university as a full-time, degree-seeking, first-year student in fall 2008
• Have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in community service, extracurricular, or other activities
• Meet the federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria
• Have completed and submitted all three required forms (Nominee Personal Information Form, Nominator Form, and Recommender Form) by the deadline

Executive Women International

CHS can nominate one junior girl to for this competition.

The best candidate has top grades, great PSAT or ACT scores, extensive community service, community organization involvement and possibly a part time job. The application is available now and is due in December. Please visit the organization’s website for more information. You can also download the application here.

CIA Undergraduate Scholarship (Apply by November 1)

High School seniors with at least a 3.0 and a 21 on their ACT can compete for a paid position at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC and up to $18,000 for tuition and fees. Family income cannot exceed $70,000. You must be 18 by April of your senior year in high school. Younger students can apply during their freshmen year in college. Please visit the web site for more information. This is a great opportunity.

Calgon Scholarship

The Calgon bath products company offers $5ooo to the young woman whose essay best describes the Calgon experience. Deadline is Feb 15.

As of today the 2007 scholarship information is not yet available but interested girls should check the site regularly to apply early

AXA Achievement Scholarship

Have you overcome  obstacles?  Do you juggle multiple responsibilities and still manage to enrich your school community?  Do you have a genuine love of learning and solid plans for the future?  The AXA Achievement Scholarship is worth a second look.  Here is what the web site says…

Our scholarships winners are known as AXA Achievers. They are ethnically and economically diverse, but they share these qualities:

• Ambition and drive
• Determination to set and reach goals
• Respect for self, family and community
• Ability to succeed in college

Some of the remarkable accomplishments of our AXA Achievers include: setting up a food bank in their community; designing a curriculum to get kids interested in science; founding a nonprofit organization for young people that encourages community service and civic involvement.

Click here to read more and download the application.  I also have copies of the application available in my room.

MG JAMES URSANO SCHOLARSHIP FUND

According to the MG JAMES URSANO SCHOLARSHIP FUND site this educational grant is reserved for:

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must be …

	Dependent children, stepchildren or legally adopted children or a ward of Army soldiers on active duty, retired, or deceased while on active duty or after retirement. Children of Reserve or National Guard soldiers mobilized under Title 10 status for the entire academic year. The children of Gray Area Retirees are also eligible.
	Registered in the Defense Eligibility Enrollment Reporting System (DEERS). You can check your status at 1-800 538-9552.
	Unmarried for the entire academic year.
	Under the age of 22 on May 1, 2007 based on the 2007-2008 academic year (AY).
	Maintain a cumulative GPA of not less than 2.0 based on a 4.0 scale.

Visit the website on November 1st to download your application. Deadline March 1st

Be sure to read the additional eligibility requirements

American Welding Society District Scholarship

If you plan to pursue a career in welding apply early to pursue this scholarship.   You must have proof of enrollment in your program prior to application.  Completing you financial aid paperwork is also critical. The scholarship requires a statement of Unmeet Need.

Visit the site for application and deadline information.

American Physics Society

Minority student with record of high achievement interested in majoring in physics. Deadline February 2. Current year scholarship application was not posted as of today watch website for more information.

American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees

Is your parent or guardian an employee of or retired from the City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County or the State of Wisconsin? Yes? You may be eligible for this scholarship.

To be eligible, you must:

• Be a graduating high school senior in 2008
• Be a daughter, son or financially dependent grandchild of an active or retired AFSCME member.
• Be an applicant to an accredited college or university and subsequently accepted as a full-time student in a four year degree program.

Deadline: December 31 that means Dec 19 prior to winter break

American Architectural Foundation Scholarship for Minorities (Dec 1)

According to the website

These scholarships are open to high school seniors and college freshmen who plan to study architecture at a NAAB-accredited program

The application process has two parts: an initial nomination by a high school guidance counselor, architect, or other individual who is aware of the student’s interest and aptitude for architecture, and an application whichis sent to eligible students after nominations are reviewed. The nomination form is due in the first week of December and the application, an essay, statement of disadvantaged circumstances, letters of recommendations, transcripts and a drawing are due on January 15 of each year

Visit website for more information. If you meet the criteria see Marqurite before November 19.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2008

Community High school is well known throughout the Milwaukee for its innovative art and design program. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2008 provides creative middle and high school students an opportunity to compete for scholarships and expose their work to a national audience. Visit the site for program rules and regulations. You must submit materials for regional competition first. Please see visit website and review deadlines carefully.

Categories:

Visual Arts: Art Portfolio, Animation, Ceramics & Glass, Computer Art, Design, Digital Imagery, Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Photography Portfolio, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video & Film

Writing: Dramatic Script, General Writing Portfolio, Humor, Journalism, Nonfiction Portfolio, Novel, Personal Essay/Memoir, Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Short Story, Short Short Story

Deadlines and a few rules

Art: Early December

Art Portfolios in this region are accepted only as digital files on CD-ROM.
Photography Portfolios from this region require both digital files on CD-ROM
and photographic prints mounted on rigid board or matted with stiff backing.

Writing

Step One: Online Registration
Participants and teachers must complete the registration process at www.artandwriting.org. Click on “The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards” to begin registration. Please print the completed submission form and obtain required signatures.
Submission Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked no ater than Monday, January 6, 2008. Earlier Submission is encouraged.
By Mail:
The Scholastic Writing Awards
Writing Region-at-Large
P. O. Box 517
New York, NY 10013

All-Ink.com Scholarship Program (Deadline: December 31)

$5000 scholarship for students with at least a 2.5 enrolling in college in Spring of 2008 or Fall of 2008. Visit All-Ink.com for essay topics and further instructions.

Aviation Scholarships (Deadline:Feb 15)

The following information was is from the Aircraft Electronics Association’s Educational Foundation website. There you will find numerous scholarships for students interested in aviation.

The Aircraft Electronics Association’s Educational Foundation has awarded nearly $1,000,000 to students seeking careers in the aircraft electronics and aviation maintenance industry. Numerous awards are available and range from $500 to over $35,000 each.

If you are interested in pursuing a career in aviation and are attending an accredited post secondary program download the application and visit their website

Aviation application

Air Force Aid Society Education Grant

According to information at the General Henry H. Arnold Education Grant Program site the scholarship competition is open to dependents of certain Air Force members. It is critical that you read the eligibility requirements carefully.

Grant Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must be in one of the following categories (items 1-3) and meet all other eligibility criteria listed below (items 4-6):
1) Dependent sons and daughters of Air Force members in one of the following categories:

• Active Duty, Title 10 AGR/Reserve on extended active duty, and Title 32 AGR performing full-time active duty. All members must be on active duty through December 1, 2008 (all other Guard and Reserve are not eligible).
• Retired due to length of active duty service or disability, or retired AGR/Reserve with 20+ qualifying years creditable for retired pay (all others are not eligible).
• Deceased while on active duty or in retired status.

Continue reading for Critical eligibility requirements

What have you read?

These are the top 106 books most often marked as ?unread? by LibraryThing?s users. Bold what you have read, italicize books you started but couldn?t finish, and strike through what you couldn?t stand. Add an *asterisk* to those you?ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Full disclosure: I read most of the books when I was in high school because they were required for either a honors English class or AP English. That was back when teachers expected you to read 30 pages a night (quizzes reigned supreme) and you had to purchase all the books on the booklist for English class before the school year started.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and punishment
Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The name of the rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice***
Jane Eyre***
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller?s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius**
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The historian : a novel
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault?s pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi boys
The once and future king
The grapes of wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & demons
The inferno
The satanic verses
Sense and sensibility***
The picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo?s nest
To the lighthouse
Tess of the D?Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver?s travels
Les mis�rables
The corrections
The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The prince
The sound and the fury
Angela?s ashes : a memoir
The god of small things
A people?s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A short history of nearly everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity?s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The three musketeers

The General Motors Minority Dealers Association (GMMDA) Scholarship Program

The General Motors Minority Dealers Association (GMMDA) is a non profit devoted to promoting the success and profitabilty of GM minority owned dealerships. Every year the group gives a limited number of $2500 scholarships to minority high school and college students.

Must have 3.0 or better cumulative GPA. Deadline is November 16.

Download the Application

Financial Aid

Students are often intimidated by the financial aid process. The ability to complete this process online and allow your school to have access to your information within a week has done much to streamline this process.

Having the proper documents is critical. The money columnist for USA TODAY provides a list of documents needed to fill out the FAFSA and reminds us that the FAFSA is required for every aspect of financial aid including scholarships and grants.

The first step is to apply for a PIN. Both parents and students will need a pen to digitally sign the FAFSA. To apply for the PIN you will need an email address.

For June graduates the financial aid process should start in January but the government has designed an early financial aid forecast tool that merits a visit now.

If you have a complicated living situation which will make the process difficult don’t worry. Social workers, guidance counselors and other adults used to working with college bound students can help you. The key is to start early.

Plan, plan and plan some more: What to take to college

The biggest shock for me when sending Diva A to college was the sheer amount of stuff that it took to make her dorm room feel and look like a livable space. It was costly and I will be the first to admit that I was in denial. In August 1988, I decorated my room in the same dorm on the same floor with items I had been collecting for over a year. I knew what was coming. I just dropped the ball. Please learn from my expensive mistake. It has been two months and I am just recovering from the hit my bank account took.

I strongly advise students and their families to print the must have lists, evaluate them from a personal perspective and turn them into gift wish lists. There are several holidays between now and graduation start early. Parents of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors start saving money now. The adjustment to college life is hard enough you don’t want to have to worry about whether you can afford a mini fridge for your daughter or son’s dorm room. It is an amazing feeling prepping a dorm room with your child. Advance planning and saving will make the time sweeter.

Amazon.com has an entire section dedicated to items that college students often purchase and covet. It is fairly exhaustive and by no means populated with must have items. It is a nice place to dream and find things that you can ship to your child’s school. 18 Overlooked things that students should bring to college is a thoughtful and useful list. A few of the items on this lists would have never crossed my mind. Ear plugs are a must. Not only useful if your roommate snores but also if they have to sleep to music and you need quiet to fall asleep. Finally IKEA’s dorm room site is an entry into the mega home store. If nothing else IKEA is a great place for affordable dorm room staples like storage items, lighting, rugs, dishes, and bedding.

If I have to be broke for others to have easier transitions to college then so be it.

National Presbyterian College Scholarship

If you will be a full-time incoming freshmen at one of the participating colleges related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) then you can apply for this funding opportunity. Carroll College in Waukesha, WI is one of the many private schools associated with the Presbyterian church. Visit this link to find other schools across the country. Deadline: Jan 31

Criteria

• maintain 3.0 grade point average;
• be members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.);
• be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States;
• demonstrate financial need;
• be high school seniors;
• take the SAT/ACT exam no later than December 15 of their senior year in high school;
• have a recommendation from church pastor;
• have a recommendation from high school guidance counselor;
• have high school transcript; and
• complete a biographical questionnaire.

Scholarship: Oct 31 deadline

Horatio Alger Scholarship

The Horatio Alger Association seeks to assist students who have demonstrated integrity, perseverance in overcoming adversity, strength of character, financial need, a good academic record, commitment to pursue a college education, and a desire to contribute to society. Critical financial need ($50,000 or less adjusted gross income per family is preferred, if higher; explanation must be provided. Visit http://www.horatioalger.org/scholarships. Deadline Oct 31.

Scholarships for Asian Students

The Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) is the primary national effort to provide scholarships for deserving Asian & Pacific Islander American students. They currently offer two scholarships for students that will be enrolled for the first-time at colleges or universities. Their mission is to forge partnerships building a national Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship organization that supports and encourages all Asian and Pacific Islander American students to pursue higher education, thereby developing future leaders who will contribute back to their communities.

APIASF SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBITY CRITERIA

• Be of Asian and/or Pacific Islander ethnicity as defined by the 2000 Census.

• Be a U.S. citizen, U.S. National, legal permanent resident.

• Be a first-time, incoming college student in the Fall of 2008.

• Have a cumulative, unweighted grade point average (GPA) of 2.7 or higher on a 4.0

Applications available early fall Deadline mid January

Scholarships for Minority Students

Jackie Robinson FoundationThrough its Education and Leadership Development Program, The Jackie Robinson Foundation provides scholarships of up to $7,200 annually to underserved high school students showing leadership potential and demonstrating financial need to attend an accredited 4-year college or university of their choice.

You must be a U.S. citizen in order to qualify for the Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship Award.

The application package must include a letter of recommendation and an official transcript (with raised seal).

In addition, all applicants are required to take either the Standardized Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) and submit their scores. The Foundation’s college codes are:

SAT: 4248
ACT: 6570

PLEASE NOTE: If your official high school transcript includes your SAT and/or ACT scores, it is not necessary for you to authorize the College Board to send your scores to us. We will accept the scores listed on the OFFICIAL transcript.

Jackie Robinson Foundation
www.jackierobinson.org/apply/

Mark Your Calendars

Parent Teacher Conferences Wednesday, October 17 and Thursday October 18

Parents don’t forget students should be reading EVERY night.  If we want to improve reading skills, reading has to happen outside of school.

Coca-Cola Scholars Scholarship

Coca-Cola Scholars:

Seniors with a 3.0 or higher can apply for the Coca-Cola Scholarship online. Application window ends October 31. Awards for students attending two and four year colleges are available.