February Scholarships

Wyoming State 4-H Foundation Scholarships
Sponsor: Wyoming State 4-H Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: February 15, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to Wyoming students who are current and/or past 4-H members in Wyoming.

Gordon A. Rich Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Gordon A. Rich Memorial Foundation (GAR)
Amount: Up to $50,000 ($12,500 per year)
Closing Date: February 16, 2023
Description: Applicant must be a dependent child of a full-time employee in the financial services industry. Employee must be presently employed with five years of experience OR no longer employed in the field but had ten years of experience which ended no longer than five years prior to scholarship. Scholarship is open to high school seniors who are enrolling as a full-time first-year student in pursuit of a four-year bachelor’s degree at an accredited college or university in the United States. Applicant must have at least a 3.5 GPA, demonstrate financial need, and be a U.S. citizen or legal resident.

The Christophers’ Poster Contest for High School Students
Sponsor: The Christophers
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: February 16, 2023
Description: Contest is open to students in grades nine through twelve. Contestant must create an original poster based on the theme, “You Can Make A Difference.”

CISCO Scholarships
Sponsor: Construction Industry Service Corporation (CISCO)
Amount: Up to $2,000
Closing Date: February 17, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to children of building trade union members and employees of union contractors. Applicant must be a high school senior who is a U.S. citizen and has been provisionally accepted as a full-time student into an undergraduate degree program at a two or four-year accredited college or university.

Jeannette Rankin Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Jeannette Rankin Women’s Scholarship Fund
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: February 17, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to low-income women who are 35 or older and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Applicant must be pursuing a technical or vocational education, an associate’s degree, or a first bachelor’s degree.

Kennedy-King Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Kennedy-King Memorial Scholarship Fund
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: February 17, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to students who will transfer in the fall or spring following the award from a Contra Costa County (California) college to junior standing at a four-year accredited institution. Applicant must belong to a minority group under-represented in the California College and University system (African-American, Americans (North, Central, or South) derived from Spanish-speaking cultures, Native American, or Pacific Islander.

Web Design Scholarship
Sponsor: Lounge Lizard
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: February 19, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students in the United States. Applicant must submit a web design.

Archibald Rutledge Scholarship Program
Sponsor: South Carolina Department of Education
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: February 20, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors in South Carolina with talent in creative writing, dance, music, theatre, or visual arts.

Columbus Citizens Foundation Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Columbus Citizens Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: February 20, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming freshman (high school and college) OR students entering medical school AND of Italian descent (at least 25% Italian). Applicant must have financial need and at least a 3.5 GPA.

Innovation in Education Scholarship
Sponsor: LaTutors
Amount: $500
Closing Date: February 20, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled in high school or college within the United States with at least 3.0 GPA. Applicant must be a citizen of, permanent resident, or hold a valid student visa in the United States or Canada. Applicant must have designed an innovative project that makes a difference in the lives of others and submit an essay describing the goal of the particular project and provide supporting documentation.

Live Deliberately Essay Contest
Sponsor: The Walden Woods Project/Thoreau Institute
Amount: Up to $500
Closing Date: February 20, 2023
Description: Contest is open to youth ages 14-18 around the globe. Applicant must submit an essay or visual essay on a topic related to a quotation by Henry David Thoreau.

SPJ High School Essay Contest
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: February 20, 2023
Description: Contest is open to students enrolled in grades 9-12 in U.S. public, private, and home schools within the United States. Applicant must submit an essay on the topic, “While consumers are drawn toward tweets and sound bites, how can journalists tell more of the story without losing reader’ interest?”

Vegetarian Resource Group Scholarship
Sponsor: Vegetarian Resource Group
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: February 20, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to U.S. high school seniors graduating in the spring of 2023. Applicant must be a vegetarian and have promoted vegetarianism in their school and/or community.

Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Scholarship
Sponsor: Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: February 22, 2023
Description: Scholarships are open to residents of the counties of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Tyler and Wetzel in West Virginia and Jefferson and Belmont in Ohio. The majority of the scholarships are open to high school seniors, but there are some open to current college students and non-traditional students. Multiple scholarships available – see website for details.

DCHA Higher Education Scholarship
Sponsor: Dairy Calf and Heifer Association
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: February 22, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to members of DCHA, or the sons, daughters or legal dependents of a DCHA members. Applicant must be currently enrolled in an agriculture-related field (e.g. dairy science, animal/veterinary science, agricultural technical course, ag communications, etc.) at an accredited college or university.

E. Renee Posey, Ed.D. Award of Excellence
Sponsor: Rdevia
Amount: $500
Closing Date: February 22, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who will be attending a HBCU in the next academic year.

FSF Scholarships
Sponsor: Fukunaga Scholarship Foundation
Amount: Up to $20,000 over four years
Closing Date: February 22, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current college students who graduated from a school or homeschool program in the State of Hawaii. Applicant must have an interest in Business and eventually return to Hawaii or the Pacific Islands region (if going out-of-state for college).

Jarrod D. Benjamin Emerging Leaders Scholarship
Sponsor: Rdevia
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: February 22, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to young men who will attend an HBCU in Louisiana during the next academic year.

Student Video Contest
Sponsor: World of 7 Billion
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: February 22, 2023
Description: Contest is open to students in grades 6-12 worldwide. Applicant must create a short video (up to 60 seconds) about the human population growth that highlights one of the given global challenges.

Coolidge Scholarship
Sponsor: The Coolidge
Amount: Tuition, room and board, and expenses for four years of undergraduate study
Closing Date: February 23, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who are high school juniors and will enroll full-time at an accredited U.S. college or university as an undergraduate for the first time in fall 2024.

ABC Keystone Chapter Scholarship
Sponsor: ABC Keystone
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled in a trade school, college or university program that is directly related to a construction career. This includes skill trades, engineering, or construction management. Applicant must live in the Pennsylvania counties of Lancaster, Franklin, Adams York, Dauphin, Berks, Cumberland, Lebanon, Perry, or Juniata.

AMS Minority Scholarships
Sponsor: American Meteorological Society
Amount: $6,000
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to minority students who will be entering their freshman year of college in the fall of 2021 and are planning to pursue careers in the atmospheric or related oceanic and hydrologic sciences.

Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship
Sponsor: FIRST
Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: ~~February 1, 2023~~ – extended to February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors who have been accepted to, or applied for admission, to an eligible undergraduate program, which means a full-time program in Biomedical Engineering, pre-medical studies, or a program that allows students to pursue a chosen major while simultaneously completing a subset of medical school prep courses. Applicant must have participated as a team member for a minimum of one year on a FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge, or FIRST Robotics Competition team.

Diamond State Scholarship
Sponsor: Delaware Department of Education
Amount: $1,250 per year
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors who rank in the upper quarter of their class and who are legal residents of Delaware. Applicant must be enrolling as a full-time student in a degree program at a nonprofit, regionally accredited institution.

Georgia Northway Scholarship
Sponsor: Midwest Hemophilia Association
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarships is open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate students who have been diagnosed with a bleeding disorder or related to someone with a bleeding disorder. Applicant or applicant’s family must be members in good standing with Midwest Hemophilia Association (Kansas, Missouri).

Greater St. Louis Mothers of Twins Club Scholarship
Sponsor: Greater St. Louis Mothers of Twins Club
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to multiple-birth graduating high school seniors seeking enrollment in an accredited post high school education or training. Applicant must reside within the St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois metropolitan statistical area.

KyCPA College Scholarships
Sponsor: Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarship is open to students who are enrolled in an accredited Kentucky-based college or university who are at least a sophomore at the time of application. Applicant must have completed Principles of Accounting and either has completed or is enrolled in Intermediate Accounting.

Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association Scholarship
Sponsor: Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: February 24, 2023
Description: Scholarships are open to students pursuing careers in the dairy industry, and must be a son, daughter, or employee of a Maryland or Virginia member, or the child of a Maryland or Virginia employee currently enrolled at a two or four-year accredited college, university or trade school.