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 May 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 45 scholarships for Saturday, May 11, 2024.
AACT John Kitt Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: American Association of Candy Technologists
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: May 15, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students who will have college sophomore, junior or senior status in the 2024-2025 academic year. Applicant must have a demonstrated interest in confectionery technology and majoring in food science, chemical engineering, biological science or a related area.
Book Marketing Scholarship
Sponsor: Smith Publicity, Inc.
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: May 15, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to high school seniors and current college freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Applicant must write a persuasive essay in response to the prompt: “What contemporary book (any genre published between 2014-2024) should be required reading for all high school students?”
AWAF Scholarship
Sponsor: Automotive Women’s Alliance Foundation (AWAF)
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 20, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to female, North American citizens, with a passion for a career or advancement in the automotive industry or a related industry. Applicant must be accepted to or enrolled in an accredited collegiate program with at least a 3.0 GPA.
B. Davis Scholarship
Sponsor: Student Award Search Aid
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 21, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to high school juniors and seniors, as well as current college students. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to leadership.
HBCU Sustainable Communities Initiative Scholarship
Sponsor: Sustainable Communities HBCU Initiative
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: May 21, 2024
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.
Cameron Impact Scholarship
Sponsor: Bryan Cameron Education Foundation
Amount: Up to $50,000
Closing Date: May 22, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to high school juniors (Class of 2024) who are planning to enroll in a full-time course of study toward a bachelor’s degree at an accredited four-year U.S. college or university. Applicant must maintain a minimum cumulative unweighted 3.7 GPA. This is the early application deadline. The regular application deadline is September 5, 2024. However, only the first 3,000 applications will be accepted.
Graduate Student Scholarship
Sponsor: American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: May 22, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to graduate students who demonstrate academic achievement and promise in Communication Sciences and Disorders. In addition to the general scholarship, there are scholarships open to minority students and international students studying in the U.S.
Make Sense Foundation Educational Scholarship
Sponsor: The Make Sense Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 24, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to females living in the United States who are preparing to enter college in the fall. Applicant must submit a completed application, personal essay, and two references.
Mometrix College Scholarships
Sponsor: Mometrix Test Preparation
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: May 24, 2024
Description: Scholarships are open to current high school seniors through college juniors. Applicant must share a little bit about themselves as well as their plans for college.
Mometrix Graduate School Scholarships
Sponsor: Mometrix Test Preparation
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: May 24, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to anyone who will be considered a full-time graduate student during the upcoming academic year at an accredited graduate school/program in the United States. Applicant must share a little bit about themselves and their plans for graduate school.
NEWH | Sunshine Chapter
Sponsor: NEWH: The Hospitality Industry Network – Sunshine Chapter
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 24, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students attending an accredited college in Florida (Central – Northern) or Mississippi. Applicant must have completed at least half the requirements for a degree and must be pursuing a career objective in the Hospitality industry (Hotel/Restaurant management, Culinary, Food Service, Architecture, Design, etc.)
NATAS PSW Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: NATAS Pacific Southwest Chapter
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: May 26, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate students enrolled in nine units or more and graduate students enrolled in six units or more for the coming Fall or Spring school year. Applicant must be a resident of the Pacific Southwest Chapter Area (San Diego, Las Vegas, Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria or Palm Springs) and intending to pursue a career in television and related fields.
UFCW International Scholarship Program
Sponsor: United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Charity Foundation
Amount: Up to $8,000 (over four years)
Closing Date: May 26, 2024
Description: Scholarships are open to UFCW members who have been active since January 1, 2023 or children/dependents of active members if they are unmarried and under the age of 20 on May 26, 2024.
CBSMF Scholarship
Sponsor: Charles B. Staats Memorial Foundation
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: May 27, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors from the Metro Atlanta area. Applicant must have demonstrated swim coach experience for at least two years.
Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Scholarship
Sponsor: Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 27, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current undergraduate students with a significant bilateral hearing loss (at least a 50 dB unaided hearing loss in both ears). Applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
Slater-Millner Scholars Program
Sponsor: Slater-Millner Scholars Fund | UNCF
Amount: Up to $2,500
Closing Date: May 27, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current college freshmen who will be enrolled full-time as a sophomore during the next academic year. Applicant must be African American/Black, Native American/Alaskan Native, or Native Hawaiian and be in a program on a curricular track for an M.D. degree in Allopathic Medicine or a D.O. degree in Osteopathic Medicine.
UNCF 3M Science. Applied to Life. Scholarship
Sponsor: 3M | UNCF
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 27, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to underrepresented high school seniors and current first-year college students from St. Paul Public Schools, local Charter Schools serving St. Paul students, or the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District. Applicant must be interested in pursuing a STEM degree.
Christopher Mark Pitkin Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Kern, and Santa Barbara Counties, California. Applicant must have a bleeding disorder or must have an immediate family member with a bleed disorder.
Dr. Earl James Fahringer Performing Arts Scholarship
Sponsor: Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to residents of the following Southern California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Kern, Inyo, or Santa Barbara. Applicant must be a person with a bleeding disorder OR have an immediate family member with a bleeding disorder. Applicant must be accepted into an educational/vocational institution and plan to be studying education in the performing arts: music, art, drama, film, or dance.
ISACA Scholarship Program
Sponsor: ISACA Foundation
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarships are open to students who are members of a historically underrepresented population within the tech place who plan on pursue a career in a cyber-related field.
Joshua Kim Advocacy Is In Your Blood Scholarship
Sponsor: Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students who are residents of, or have a permanent address in, one of the following Southern California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Kern, Inyo and Santa Barbara. Applicant must have been affected by hemophilia or other bleeding disorder.
Target Advancing Design Diversity Scholarship
Sponsor: Target | UNCF
Amount: Up to $3,000
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to Black/African American students who are enrolled as a full-time, first-year student during the upcoming fall term. Applicant must be pursuing a degree in Design (Apparel Design, Apparel Technical Design, Costume Design, Digital Arts and Design, Fashion Design, Fashion Product Development, Footwear Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Packaging Design, Product Design, UX Design, Technical Design, Textile Arts, Textile Design/Surface/Fibers Textile Sciences and Engineering, Transportation Design, or Weaving Arts).
Victoria Mendoza Perez Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Hemophilia Foundation of Southern California
Amount: Up to $1,000
Closing Date: May 28, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to incoming and current college students pursuing a career in healthcare who are residents of, or have a permanent address in, one of the following Southern California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, Kern, Inyo and Santa Barbara. Applicant must be a person with a bleeding disorder OR must have an immediate family member with a bleeding disorder (such as a sibling of, child of, or spouse of someone with a bleeding disorder).
Stand Up to Distracted Driving Scholarship
Sponsor: Kanoski Bresney
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 29, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate and graduate students who will be attending college through the fall. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen and have at least a 3.0 GPA. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to distracted driving.
Crest + Oral B Bridges Program
Sponsor: National Dental Association Foundation | Family Dollar | Crest + Oral B
Amount: Up to $5,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students who are Black or African American who are pursuing careers in dental, dental hygiene, or dental assisting program.
IHLA Scholarships
Sponsor: Illinois Hotel & Lodging Association (IHLA)
Amount: Up to $4,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and current college students who are/will be studying hospitality. Applicant must also be a permanent resident of Illinois and a U.S. citizen or permanent U.S. resident for at least 12 months at the time of application.
Irene Adler Prize
Sponsor: Lucas Aykroyd
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship prize is open to women commencing or continuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. degree in journalism, creative writing, or literature at a recognized post-secondary institution in the United States or Canada in 2024-2025.
Lamey Wellehan Maine Difference Scholarship
Sponsor: Lamey-Wellehan
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to Maine high school seniors who will graduate in the spring and who will enter a Maine college in the fall OR a graduate of a Maine high school in one of the four years preceding the current year who will be enrolled in a Maine college in the fall. Applicant studies should be on the ecology and economics of Maine.
MGM Resorts International Scholarship
Sponsor: MGM Resorts
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to undergraduate freshmen who are enrolled in a four-year HACU. Applicant must have at least a 3.0 GPA and must be majoring in Accounting, Business Administration, Culinary Arts, Event Management, Finance, Hospitality, Hotel Administration, International Business, Marketing, or Public Relations.
SiteOne Landscape Supply Scholarship
Sponsor: SiteOne Landscape Supply
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students attending a two-year or four-year HACU member institution. Applicant must have at least a 3.0 GPA and must be majoring in one of the following: Landscape Architecture, Construction, Biochemistry, Agrobusiness, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Entomology, Horticulture/Plant Studies, Plant Sciences, Finance, Accounting, General Business Administration, Agriculture, Arborist, Agronomy, Turf, Golf Course Planning/Management, Agronomic Management, Sales Marketing, Human Resources, Information Technology, or Logistics/Supply Chain.
WPBDF Academic Scholarships
Sponsor: Western Pennsylvania Bleeding Disorders Foundation
Amount: $3,000
Closing Date: May 30, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to any person or immediate family member of a person with hemophilia, von Willebrand Disease, or other inherited bleeding disorder is eligible to apply for this scholarship. The person with the bleeding disorder must either be a member of the Foundation, living in one of the 26 counties served by the Foundation, or be a patient of the Hemophilia Center of Western PA. The candidate must provide proof of enrollment in an accredited college or vocational/technical center and must submit a completed application within the established deadline.
#LiveLikeLyly Memorial Scholarship
Sponsor: Against the Grain Productions
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to Asian high school seniors and current college students who are/will be pursuing a major in fashion or graphic design. Applicant must be a citizen, national or legal permanent resident of the U.S. and have at least a 3.0 GPA.
$1,000 College Survey Scholarship
Sponsor: Niche
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current college students and alumni who have graduated within the last four years. Applicant must take a short survey on their college.
$1,000 Easy Scholarship: Be An Advocate For STEM Education Funding
Sponsor: DoSomething
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: We know there are real equity gaps in STEM especially for marginalized students who don’t see themselves reflected in STEM professions and underresourced schools that don’t have funding to keep pace with how quickly the field is evolving. Take action by sending a letter to your state representative and urge them to invest in STEM education and programs!
$1,000 Graduate School Survey Scholarship
Sponsor: Niche
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to current graduate students and alumni who have graduated within the last four years. Applicant must take a short survey on their graduate school.
$1,000 Local Survey Sweepstakes
Sponsor: Niche
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Sweepstakes is open to all U.S. residents over the age of 18. Applicant must take a short survey on their local area.
$1,000 Review Your Company Sweepstakes
Sponsor: Niche
Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Sweepstakes is open to all U.S. residents over the age of 18. Applicant must take a short survey on their workplace.
$2,000 “No Essay” College Scholarship
Sponsor: Niche
Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to high school, college, and graduate students and those planning to enroll within 12 months. Applicant must be a legal resident of the United States or an international student with a valid visa. Applicant must log in to Niche or create a free account to apply for the scholarship.
$2,500 Easy Scholarship: Certified Bestie
Sponsor: DoSomething
Amount: $2,500
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Mental Health is a topic that can feel difficult to discuss. Only 46% of young people say they are comfortable talking to their friends about their mental health and less than one in five do so regularly. However, if you’re feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders, your friends may be experiencing it, too. Become a Certified Bestie by completing one (or both) of the free and easy Wellness Education Lab online training courses, and submit your certification(s) for the opportunity to earn a $2,500 scholarship.
$2,500 Easy Scholarship: Science Go Seek
Sponsor: DoSomething
Amount: $2,500
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Despite growth in STEM jobs outpacing other fields, young people, especially those without a college degree, are more likely to believe that STEM is not useful for their careers. Choose something that interests you and find a way that science, technology, engineering, or math explain how it works. You’ll then share this in a 60-90 second video. Once you’ve uploaded your video, you’ll be entered for the opportunity to earn a $2,500 scholarship!
$25,000 “No Essay” Scholarship
Sponsor: Niche
Amount: $25,000
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to all high school and college students, as well as anyone looking to attend college or graduate school in the next year. Applicant must have U.S. citizenship or a valid Visa/U.S. passport.
$500 Easy Scholarship: Uncensored: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Sponsor: DoSomething
Amount: $500
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to students between the ages of 13 and 25 years of age who live in the U.S. (or are a U.S. citizen, but living abroad). Book bans have reached an all-time high! In 2023 alone, more than 4,000 unique titles were challenged in public libraries and school libraries, the most PEN America has recorded since they started tracking these bans. Read a book from DoSomething’s Uncensored: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month booklist and share your personal reflections about the importance of the story and how you’ll advocate for culturally representative stories in your school. You’ll be eligible for the opportunity to earn a $500 scholarship.
1Dental Scholarship
Sponsor: 1Dental.com
Amount: $500
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors and college students. Applicant must submit a short online survey.
A Voice for Animals Contest
Sponsor: Humane Education Network
Amount: Up to $500
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Contest is open to students between the ages of 14 and 18 years of age. Applicant must submit an essay on a given topic related to animals.
AAIA Scholarships
Sponsor: Association of American Indian Affairs
Amount: Varies
Closing Date: May 31, 2024
Description: Scholarships are open to undergraduate and graduate students who are enrolled members within their respective tribe from continental U.S. tribes or Alaska Native. Applicant must have at least a 2.5 GPA.
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