
Scholarships
Amount: Up to $11,500. About: The Hoover Presidential Foundation offers the Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student Award. Each year, up to 15 Iowa high school juniors are awarded a $10,000 scholarship. Applicants must propose and then accomplish a project of their own design. The application is based solely on the accomplishment of the project; grades, test…
Amount: $2,500 per year for up to 4 years. About: The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) offers various scholarships to students who are studying in a STEM field and identify as American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous peoples of Canada. The AISES Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Foundation Scholarship…
Amount: $1,500. About: The Upper Midwest Emmy Foundation offers annual $1,500 Emmy Student Scholarships to students studying journalism, broadcasting, or electronic media. Applicants must be accepted to or currently enrolled at an accredited post-secondary school and living or attending school in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, or Wisconsin. Applicants can be rising undergraduate freshmen,…
Amount: $1,000. About: Alliant Energy, a public utility company that services areas of Wisconsin and Iowa, offers scholarships for students who reside in and attend school in their service areas. Applicants must be age 24 or under and enrolled or planning to enroll for the first time in a full-time undergraduate course of study at…
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 $80,000 maximum over 4 years. About: Dream.US, a nonprofit organization, created its Opportunity Scholarship to help undocumented students who live in “locked-out states,” meaning states where students “effectively have no access to college – either because they face paying out-of-state tuition or because their state will simply not admit them into its…