If you're looking for a place to expand your mind and stretch your imagination, look no further. At Indiana Tech, we pride ourselves on our academic excellence. Our professors love to challenge bright young minds with big new ideas. So we're looking for eight talented students to honor with full-tuition, four-year scholarships.

Indiana Tech Engineering Scholarship

The Indiana Tech Engineering Scholarship awards up to $10,000 in scholarships every year (Restricted to traditional day students).
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The 2008 Shout It Out Scholarship

Five students will each receive a $1,000 scholarship. Winners will be chosen based on their responses (250 words or less) to the given topic: “If you were given a 60-second commercial spot on television that would air repeatedly during the presidential debates, what message would you shout out to America?” To be eligible to apply, students must be 13 years of age or older at the time of application and be legal residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia. Students may apply online at http://www.scholarshipexperts.com/apply.htx before September 30, 2008.

The Education Matters $5K Scholarship

One $5,000 scholarship will be awarded to the student who best responds (in 250 words or less) to the following online topic: “What would you say to someone who thinks education doesn't matter, or that college is a waste of time and money?” To be eligible to apply, students must be residents of the United States, be 13 years of age or older, and must have completed a scholarship search profile online at www.scholarshipexperts.com . The deadline for students to apply online is October 31, 2008. Students can apply now at http://www.scholarshipexperts.com/apply.htx.

The Greek Women’s University Club Scholarship

The Greek Women’s University Club has been in existence since 1931 and it’s mission has been to promote education and to support a variety of endeavors in the arts, literature, and sciences within the community. Since its inception, the GWUC has supported women of Greek descent by offering annual academic scholarships. The eligibility criteria follows:

Must be female.
Must be either a full-time undergraduate with at least sophomore standing, or a full-time graduate student.
Must have at least one parent who is of Greek ancestry.
Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must be a permanent resident of the Chicago metropolitan area (50-mile radius).
Must be available for an in-person interview on Saturday, November 22, 2008.
Previous GWUC scholarship recipients are not eligible.

Applications are available in the Financial Aid office and must be completed and postmarked by October 18, 2008.

Kelly Engineering Resources 2009 Future Engineers Scholarship

Kelly Engineering Resources – specializing in engineering job placement – will be awarding one (1) $5000 scholarship to an outstanding engineering student for tuition expenses in 2009. Candidates must be full-time students and be accepted to the College of Engineering. Application materials, eligibility requirements, and more information about the scholarship program are available at: http://www.kellyengineering.us/web/us/ker/en/pages/scholarships.html.

The application deadline is October 1, 2008.

Hispanic College Fund Scholarship Program

Applications are currently available for multiple scholarships under the Hispanic College Fund Scholarship Program. Applicants for these scholarships must: be Hispanic, maintain a 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale), be a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident, currently reside in the U.S. or Puerto Rico, be a current or rising undergraduate attending a college or university in the fall in either the U.S. or Puerto Rico, and demonstrate financial need.

Scholarship programs and the applications can be found at: http://scholarships.hispanicfund.org/applications/. Application receipt dates vary by scholarship.

Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest

This is an essay contest on Ayn Rand's novel, "Atlas Shrugged" for cash prizes with the top award being a $10,000 cash award. A total of 49 awards in different cash amounts will be awarded. Applicants must be entering or enrolling in a college degree program at the time of entry (part-time students are eligible, as are high school students graduating in 2008). The essay should be no fewer than 800 and no more than 1,600 words in length on one of the following three topics:

Why do Dagny and Rearden oppose the strikers in action?
Explain Ragner Danneskjold's statement that Robin Hood is the one man he is out to destroy. What is the deeper moral meaning of this claim?
For each of the following three passages from "Atlas Shrugged," explain, in a single, unified essay, its meaning and its relation to the story and theme of the novel
- Galt:"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube." - Part Three, Chapter VII
- Dagny: "We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?" Galt:"No, we never had to." - Part Three, Chapter I
- Francisco: "You have a great deal of courage, Dagny. Some day, you'll have enough of it." - Part One, Chapter V

Deadline: September 17, 2008 Applications: www.aynrandnovels.com/contests

The Sallie Mae Fund's 2007 Paying for College Bus Tour

The Sallie Mae Fund, a charitable organization sponsored by Sallie Mae, is currently conducting it's 2007 Paying for College Bus Tour around the United States. The bus tour, in its fourth year, has reached more than 96,000 families and has awarded $330,000 in scholarships to deserving students. Please visit www.salliemaefund.org to see if a stop will be made in your area or for information on dates and locations for the spring 2008 tour.

The Sallie Mae 911 Education Fund

The Sallie Mae 911 Education Fund was created in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The scholarship program is open to children of those who were killed or permanently disabled as a result of the terrorist attacks, and who are enrolled as full-time undergraduates at approved, accredited institutions. Scholarship awards of up to $2,500 per applicant, per school year, are available and may be renewed on an annual basis, subject to satisfactory academic progress.
Application: www.thesalliemaefund.org/smfnew/scholarship/911_fund.html
Deadline : open

Sallie Mae Fund

The Sallie Mae Fund continues its effort and committment to higher education access by offering more than $2 million in college scholarships to low-income and minority students. Applications are available at www.thesalliemaefund.org

Other Scholarships

We are working to compile more scholarship resources. In the meantime, please check out the Fort Wayne Community Foundation website for scholarship information.

Indiana Tech is a Collegiate Partner of Scholarship America and the Dollars for Scholars family of community scholarship foundations. Indiana Tech has agreed that Dollars for Scholars awards of up to $2,500 per student will not adversely affect scholarship funding provided by Indiana Tech.

Indiana Tech is a Collegiate Partner of Scholarship America and the Dollars for Scholars family of community scholarship foundations. Indiana Tech has committed to matching Dollars for Scholars awards of up to $1,000 per student provided that the student has financial need.