April 30-May 1, 2009: Deadlines! Deadlines!

Several deadlines for scholarships and other opportunities are looming!

Here are a few you might want to learn about and enter.

1. 2009 Digital Media Sandbox Consortium Governor's Challege Academic Media Tournament, May 1, 2009, deadline

If you are a student or faculty member at one of the following institutions in Tennesseee, North Carolina, Virginia, or Texas, you can enter this competition. Here is a list of participating institutions: http://www.tnsandbox.com/site.php?content=institutions

Competition homepage: http://www.tnsandbox.com/site.php

Eligibility guidelines: http://www.tnsandbox.com/site.php?content=eligibility

Prizes/categories: http://www.tnsandbox.com/site.php?content=prizes

2. Co-Alliance Scholarship, April 30, 2009

Information here: http://tinyurl.com/dfkly7

3. Google Scholarship 2009 administered by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), April 30 deadline

Open to college juniors and seniors, college graduates, and graduate students who are enrolled in one of the following: computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and software engineering. Potential of $10,000 scholarship at 2009-2010 academic year at participating schools (http://www.uncf.org/members/index.asp).

Details here: http://tinyurl.com/claurh

In researching this scholarship, I discovered that the UNCF also has a complete section for students, where you can explore other opportunities:
http://www.uncf.org/ForStudents/index.asp

I knew about the first competition; the other two I typed into the search field at google.com scholarships april 30 deadline. There are several more.

Click on the link below and find out what they are.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=scholarships+april++30+deadline+&btnG=Search

Once you click on the link above, notice the search terms I used in google.com. You can use similar terms for May, such as scholarships deadline May 15 or scholarships deadline May 30.

Here, then, is another trick to use in search of scholarships. Go to google.com and type scholarships April May 2009 to learn about other scholarships.

Try several different tricks and tell me what you learn.