FW: **FTC Teams - Scholarship Information**

*** Team Contacts:  Please pass this info on to students, parents, and high school guidance counselors! ***

 
2009 FIRST Scholarship News – May Update 

Greetings Teams,

It was great to meet some of you at the Championship in Atlanta at Scholarship Row.  Those of you that visited us had a chance to speak to representatives from 28 colleges/universities or organizations that offer FIRST Scholarships.  During the Championship, some of the students who had already been notified that they had won 2009 FIRST Scholarships gathered at Scholarship Row to meet and talk with Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers.  See the picture of these scholarship winners at www.usfirst.org/scholarships.

SENIORS, there are still 9 FIRST Scholarships for which you can apply (whose application deadlines dates are in the future).  And there is 1 scholarship left for which JUNIORS can apply. But hurry up, some of those deadline dates are approaching very quickly. 

Eastern Michigan University  (5/15)
Norfolk State University/BAE Systems (6/1)
Washtenaw Community College  (6/10)
Society of Petroleum Engineers - Delta Section  (6/15)
Colorado Technical University - Denver  (6/20)
Westwood College (7/1)
College of Southern Maryland  (7/1)  (for JUNIORS and SENIORS)
Pennsylvania College of Technology  (7/1)
Schoolcraft College  (7/1)

Be sure to check out the FIRST Scholarship web page (at www.usfirst.org/scholarships) and follow the link to the 2009 FIRST Scholarship Opportunities.   After selecting FTC as the Program (and clicking GO>), you can sort the scholarship list by application deadline date by clicking on the Deadline column header.  

FIRST Scholarship Winners --  To all of you who have already been offered a 2009 FIRST Scholarship, congratulations!  This is a great achievement, and FIRST is very proud of you.  Of course you will want to thank your scholarship provider.  Your scholarship award letter may have included the name and address to whom you can send a thank you note.  If not, you can contact the school/organization to ask for the contact information of the person to thank.

Team Mentors  –  Help us collect information about local scholarships for FIRST students

In addition to our official FIRST Scholarships that are listed on the FIRST website, there are many local scholarships specifically for students on FRC and FTC teams.  FIRST Headquarters would like to recognize and understand the magnitude of these local scholarships.  Please help us collect this data by notifying us of any students on your team who have won one of these scholarships.  These are college scholarships that are offered only to FIRST students.  They might be awarded by one of your team sponsors, a regional sponsor, your FIRST booster club, your high school, a local college, etc.  (Please do not report students who have won one of the FIRST scholarships that are listed on the FIRST website.  We are notified of these winners by the scholarship provider.)  

To make it easy for you to report this information, please download the Excel spreadsheet from  the link below,

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedfiles/Community/FRC/Scholarships/2009_Assets/2009_Local_Scholarships_for_FIRST_students_Report_Form.xls

Complete this form (as fully as possible), and send as an email attachment to scholarships@usfirst.org.   Thanks for your help!

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Go teams!