There are thousands of scholarships out there. Below you will find many scholarships, most with general eligibility requirements. My goal is to share some lesser-known scholarships with my readers every Saturday.
Don’t wait. Apply for these great scholarships today! And, if you missed the last Scholarship Saturday, check it out. There are scholarships there that are still open! You can also find scholarships on my other scholarship lists, such as scholarships with requirements based on your state, major, grade level, ethnicity, or religion. And, lastly, check out my list of scholarships with January deadlines.
Only brief information about each scholarship is listed. Therefore, you are encouraged to visit the scholarship websites to get further details about eligibility and requirements.
Here are 30 scholarships for Saturday, January 11, 2025.
DEWALT Trades Scholarship
Sponsor: Stanley Black & Decker
Amount: $5,000.00
Closing Date: January 16, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate students who are/will be majoring in a trade construction, industrial, motor/power sector, mechanics, or technology degree/certificate.
John Lennon Endowed Scholarship
Sponsor: UNCF | Yoko Ono
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: January 16, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate students attending a UNCF member institution and majoring in communications, mass communications, mass media arts, music or performing arts.
AMS Graduate Fellowships
Sponsor: American Meteorological Society
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 17, 2025
Description: Fellowship is open to students entering their first year of graduate school in the fall of 2025 who are pursuing a degree in atmospheric or related sciences. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or hold permanent resident status and have at least a 3.0 GPA.
Orange Scholars Program
Sponsor: The Homer Fund
Amount: $2,500.00
Closing Date: January 17, 2025
Description: Scholars program is open to high school seniors and current college freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Applicant must be a dependent of an hourly associate of The Home Depot or its subsidiaries to be eligible for the program.
Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union High School Senior Scholarship
Sponsor: Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union
Amount: $2,500.00
Closing Date: January 17, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union members who are college bound high school seniors who will be attending college in the fall.
Profile in Courage Essay Contest
Sponsor: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: January 17, 2025
Description: Contest is open to United States high school students in grades nine through twelve. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to an act of political courage.
Safe Jobs for Youth Month Poster Contest
Sponsor: YoungWorkers.org
Amount: Up to $300
Closing Date: January 17, 2025
Description: Contest is open to California teens between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. Contestant must create a poster focusing on workplace health safety as it relates to teens.
U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad
Sponsor: U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 17, 2025
Description: Program is open to high school students (9th-12th grade) who are legal U.S. residents. Students must fill out registration form and then be nominated to take the National Exam.
Quad City Regional Auto Show Scholarship
Sponsor: Quad Cities Community Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 19, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students in specific Illinois and Iowa Counties who plan to attend a two or four-year college or university or planning to attend an Automotive Technical/Trade School. Applicant must be working or have a parent or guardian currently working in a new car dealership located within one of the specific Illinois or Iowa Counties.
C-SPAN’s StudentCam Documentary Competition
Sponsor: C-SPAN
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 20, 2025
Description: Competition is open to students in grades 6-12. Student must create a short documentary video on the following theme: “Your Message to the President.
Innovation in Education Scholarship
Sponsor: LaTutors
Amount: $500.00
Closing Date: January 20, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students currently enrolled in high school or college within the United States with at least 3.0 GPA. Applicant must be a citizen of, permanent resident, or hold a valid student visa in the United States or Canada. Applicant must have designed an innovative project that makes a difference in the lives of others and submit an essay describing the goal of the particular project and provide supporting documentation.
Wisconsin Garden Club Federation Scholarship
Sponsor: Wisconsin Garden Club Federation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 20, 2025
Description: Scholarships are open to current undergraduate sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are studying in a scientific field enhancing the environment and whose primary residence is in Wisconsin.
Charles R. Kendall Scholarship
Sponsor: Hawaii Government Employees Association
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 21, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to members and their dependents who are attending or plan to attend on a full-time basis a university, college, community college, vocational or trade school, or pursue other post-high school study.
Legacy Scholarship Program
Sponsor: Army Women’s Foundation
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: January 21, 2025
Description: Scholarships are open to women who have served or are serving honorably in the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve, Army National Guard or the child of a woman who served honorably in the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve or Army National Guard. Applicant must a current community college or certificate student with at least a 2.5 GPA or a current undergraduate or graduate student with at least a 3.0 GPA.
Russell K. Okata Scholarship
Sponsor: Hawaii Government Employees Association
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 21, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to members and their dependents who are attending or plan to attend a community or vocational, trade or other post-high school study on a full-time basis.
Edison Scholars Program
Sponsor: Edison International
Amount: Up to $12,500 per year, totaling $50,000 over four years
Closing Date: January 23, 2025
Description: Scholars program is open to high school seniors planning to pursue science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) at a four-year college or university on a full-time basis. Applicant must also have at least a 3.0 GPA and live in the Southern California Edison service territory.
UBS/Painewebber Scholarship
Sponsor: UBS/PaineWebber |UNCF
Amount: Up to $8,000
Closing Date: January 23, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to current sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement within the various business disciplines at the targeted UNCF institutions.
Gateway to Research Scholarships
Sponsor: American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE)
Amount: $5,000.00
Closing Date: January 24, 2025
Description: Scholarships are open to students who are enrolled full-time in a Pharm.D program or a Baccalaureate degree program and have completed at least one year of the degree program in an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy. Applicant must be nominated by a faculty member.
Bev Sellers Memorial Scholarships
Sponsor: Young Singers Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 25, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to young women involved in the barbershop art form, to assist in the furtherance of their music education. Applicant must be an undergraduate student studying music education or vocal pedagogy.
Charles Butt Scholarship for Aspiring Teachers
Sponsor: Charles Butt Foundation
Amount: Up to $10,000
Closing Date: January 26, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to prospective teachers who are currently in, or plan to enter, an eligible teacher preparation program at a Raising Texas Teachers partner school (see website for details). Each Texas school has a different deadline; a few deadlines have passed, but most deadlines are January 26 or after.
Duke Award
Sponsor: Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Foundation
Amount: Up to $15,000
Closing Date: January 26, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to outstanding Hawaiian high school seniors who exemplify the character and personality traits of Duke Kahanamoku. Applicant must be nominated by a school or athletic official.
HBCU Sustainable Communities Initiative Scholarship
Sponsor: Sustainable Communities HBCU Initiative
Amount: $5,000.00
Closing Date: January 27, 2025
Description: Scholarship program is open to rising undergraduate juniors and seniors who attend an UNCF member institution in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, or Virginia and are majoring in STEM, business, or sustainability related disciplines.
Robert Tanner Freeman Endowed Scholarship Program
Sponsor: UNCF | Dental Trade Alliance Foundation
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: January 27, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to Black/African American students enrolled full-time at a U.S. located college university and in an accredited dental program.
QCESC Scholarship
Sponsor: The Quad City Engineering and Science Council
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 28, 2025
Description: Scholarships are open to high school seniors who plan on studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) at an accredited college or university. Applicant must be a Quad City area resident in the Illinois Counties of Carroll, Henry, Knox, Lee, Mercer, Rock Island, or Whiteside, or in the Iowa Counties of Clinton, Scott, Muscatine, or Louisa.
Boren Scholarship
Sponsor: Boren Awards for International Study
Amount: Up to $25,000
Closing Date: January 29, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to U.S. undergraduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests, and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asian, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Walter B. Jones, Jr. Scholars Program
Sponsor: UNCF
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: January 29, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to first-year freshmen students who are enrolled full-time at any accredited, four-year college or university AND are residents of Northwest Ohio (see website for specific zip codes).
Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: UNCF | Ahmanson Family Foundation
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: January 30, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students attending a UNCF member school and are from greater Los Angeles, California.
Fidelity Scholars Program
Sponsor: UNCF | Fidelity
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: January 30, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to students ages 16 to 24 who are permanent residents of Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Ohio, Colorado, or the District of Columbia. Applicant must plan to attend a four-year accredited, non-profit college or university as a first-time, incoming freshman in their permanent state or residence.
Technology Addiction Awareness Scholarship
Sponsor: Digital Responsibility
Amount: $1,000.00
Closing Date: January 30, 2025
Description: Scholarship is open to current high school and college students. Applicant must submit a short statement about technology addiction.
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