
Scholarships
Amount: $5,000 (renewable for up to 4 years). About: Offered by the Maine Education Services (MES) Foundation, the Richard H. Pierce Memorial Scholarship is annually awarded to a local student entering higher education. Applicants must be Maine residents, be entering the first year of a post-secondary program at an accredited two-or four-year degree-granting college or
Amount: Full tuition. About: The Questbridge College Match Scholarship is a national program that connects high school seniors from low-income backgrounds with full four-year scholarships to top U.S. colleges and universities, including Duke, Princeton, Stanford, UChicago, and Yale. Match Scholarship recipients are granted admission to one of QuestBridge’s college partners with a full, four-year scholarship
Amount: $2,500. About: The Quad City Engineering and Science Council (QCESC) Scholarship is designed to benefit students from the Quad Cities who are interested in pursuing STEM careers. Applicants must be high school seniors, residents of Mercer, Rock Island, Henry, Whiteside, Carroll, Knox, Lee, Clinton, Scott, Muscatine, or Louisa County, and plan to pursue a
Amount: Up to $15,000. About: Each year, the Professional Businesswomen of California group gives a minimum of three scholarships to female high school seniors to help them pay for college and ultimately achieve their career goals. Applicants must be female high school seniors in California who are on track to attend an accredited college or
Amount: $1,000-$5,000. About: The Prism Foundation is an organization that works to explore and address critical issues that affect the Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ community. As part of its commitment to this goal, the foundation provides scholarships to students who have made a demonstrable impact on the Asian & Pacific Islander and LGBTQ+ communities.
Amount: $1,000-$8,000. About: The Project Yellow Light/Hunter Garner Scholarship was created to commemorate the life of Hunter Garner, a teenage student who died in a car crash at age 16. The scholarship is intended to spread awareness about distracted driving. In order to apply, students must submit either a billboard design, video, radio spot, or