Thursday, September 13, 2007

$10k Annual Scholarship for U.S. College Blogger

The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation has announced the submission deadline for their annual $10,000 college blogger scholarship. Full details and the nomination form are available at:


Application Deadline: October 6, 2007
Award Dates: November 8 & 9, 2007, at the Blog World and New Media Expo in Las Vegas

Requirements:
  • Student blog must contain unique and interesting information (no spam bloggers)
  • Student blogger must maintain their own individual blog or blog on a community blog
  • Student blogger must currently attending full-time in post-secondary education in the United States
  • Student blogger must maintain a 3.0 GPA
  • Student blogger must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident
Any college student with a personal or professional blog is encouraged to apply. Student bloggers may also be nominated by friends or family.

Application entries will be accepted until Midnight, PST on Oct. 6th. Ten finalists will be chosen from the entries received, and public voting will begin at 9am EST on Oct. 8th to elect an exceptional student blogger for the $10,000 scholarship. The grand prizewinner will be announced at the Blog World and New Media Expo to be held November 8-9, 2007 in Las Vegas.

Site visitors, students, and other bloggers will be invited to vote for their favorite student blogs. The winning blog, as well as runners up, will be featured on the CollegeScholarships.org website.

Why a blogging scholarship? Students with the drive, devotion, and passion, to put their individual voice into a blog satisfy many of the mainstream scholarship criteria attached to other more traditional awards, including creativity and imagination, motivation and passion, and technical savvy. And many of them do it every day!

Exceptional bloggers are typically prolific, must be passionate about their subject matter, offer engaging and creative postings, and able to inspire and welcome commentary. The Blogging Scholarship aims to reward student blogs that stand out in design and usability, and clearly create a unique and individual "personality." Previous winners have blogged on politics, technology, and science and have proven their mettle with online communication and savvy. Winners are often experts in personal communication and expression—an increasingly rare commodity in contemporary business and society at large.

About CollegeScholarships.org: CollegeScholarships.org, founded in 1999, provides free access to indexes of scholarship and grant programs. Students may search hundreds of free college money programs based on degree level, student type, or field of interest. The site also offers a spam-free search engine that frees prospective students and their parents from the cumbersome profiles required by most scholarship search services. The website has grown over the last few years into a multi-layered tool that lists scholarship and grant sources from federal, state, and private sources, along with sections devoted to student loans and lenders. The Blogging Scholarship is just one of a handful of lucrative scholarships CollegeScholarships.org extends to its patron students.

Contact Information:
Daniel Kovach
(919) 630-4895
daniel@collegescholarships.org

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