Wacky Scholarships & Grants

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School tuition can be pricey, but there are several obscure scholarships and grants out there for the proper candidates. Possibly you\'re a Dr. Seuss fan with an offbeat creating type. Possibly you're fanatical about fungi. Possibly you\'re just exceptionally tall. With some analysis, you may possibly be amazed to locate a scholarship award that fits you.

Dr. Seuss Scholarship

The "Oh the Areas You will Go" University Scholarship, based mostly on Dr. Seuss's children's guide, is a $five,000 award open to any American university student below the age of 21. Candidates need to show a special innovative-creating type in a 250-phrase essay connected to Seuss's guide.

Duct Tape Attire Contest

The Caught at Prom Scholarship Contest delivers awards to North American college students, 14 or older, who can fashion and make a prom outfit totally out of duct tape. The awards assortment from $500 to $three,000 and are granted based mostly on top quality of perform, utilize of coloration and sum of tape utilised. To utilize, partners need to deliver in images of by themselves at the dance and fill in some on the web varieties. Judges will decide on the top rated ten partners, and the winners are decided by way of on the web voting.

For the Vertically Unchallenged

Tall Clubs Internatioal awards scholarships of $1,000. Feminine candidates need to be at minimum five feet, ten inches tall, and males should meet a least height requirement of six-foot-2. Interested pupils should 1st speak to their regional TCI chapter (in possibly the U.S. or Canada).

Fungi Funds

The Mycological Society of America delivers scholarships to College college students who are specializing in analysis connected to fungi. For illustration, the Forest Fungal Ecology Analysis Award, a price of $1,000, is granted to Master's or Ph.D. college students who are pursuing study on fungal communities in susceptible ecosystems. The $1,000 Clark T. Rogerson University student Study Award funds journey bills for undergraduate or graduate college students who are conducting discipline perform. The John W. Rippon Analysis Award ($500) is awarded to graduate college students who are learning the medicinal properties of fungi. The $2,000 MSA Graduate Fellowship and Nama Memorial Fellowship scholarships are awarded to college students with large GPAs who demonstrate prospective in the discipline of mycology.