New Deadline for 2009 Scholarship Applications: April 10, 2009

Now a four-year scholarship!!
We offer up to $20,000 (up to $5000 per year for four years) for exceptionally innovative and creative high school juniors & seniors, & college freshmen from Connecticut and New York City.

 

Do You Think Outside The Box?

Apply for this scholarship if you are . . .

  • a student who has solved artistic, scientific, or technical problems in new or unusual ways

  • a student who has come up with a distinctive solution to problems faced by your school, community or family

  • a student who has created a new group, organization, or institution that serves an important need

 

Some Past Winners:

Students in her school were largely unaware of and unconcerned by the genocide in Darfur. So Lily Yeung conceived and helped produce a documentary that countered apathy and ignorance about Darfur so effectively that it was shown in high schools around the country.

Bed-ridden children are often frustrated by how hard it is to do things they enjoy when they're stuck in bed. So Heather Allen, who remembered well what it was like to be bed-ridden herself, designed a stainless steel lap easel to make it easier for bed-ridden children to draw and write.

In his community, young people were not encouraged to embrace the arts, and artists were viewed as self-centered & unconcerned about the world. So Hugo Lara turned an abandoned storefront into a vibrant gallery and performance space for young artists & engaged those young artists in a program to deliver one hundred art kits to children in third world countries where war and poverty have disrupted their education.

Senior citizens in his community were afraid of computers. So Vadim Tsipenyuk created a program to help senior citizens at a local senior center learn to navigate the information superhighway.

Many students in her high school couldn't locate even major countries on the map. So Marybeth Tamborra came up with innovative activities to spread an awareness of world geography in her school.

Mark Alan Schneider came up with an ingenious way to map the spread of West Nile Virus through a computer simulation of its progress. Rachel Kauder Nalebuff compiled a collection of "first period narratives" from women around the world into a book that helps illuminate, with empathy, humor and insight, an often-invisible aspect of women's lived experience. Danielle Patrice Meyers created, produced and directed a distinctive stage production about Black history. Stephen Bukowsky came up with a new design for pulse jet engines. Sean Hildebrandt came up with a way of using photographs of abandoned industrial buildings to encourage New Englanders to look at the legacies of their industrial past in fresh ways. Erica LeCount brought the fun of soccer to scores of local children whose families could not afford a conventional sports camp by getting varsity soccer players at three high schools to donate their services and persuading local business to donate funds.