Planning and Preparing for College (Scholarships, Internships, Etc)

To prepare students and their parents for college success in areas of academic readiness, community service, internships, summer programs, etc. The blog is to be used as a preparation infrastructure on various areas of college topics.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

2010 Summer Program and Internship Opportunites - Deadlines: Various

Minority & Underrepresented Students


2010 Summer Programs and Internships Opportunites


Now is the time to start considering Summer Internship Programs. Many of the Coops/Internships are paid unless denoted in the description.

Please click the link below for Summer Programs or Internships across the country:

OPPORTUNTIES

Many of the summer programs deadline dates are in January and February. Read each program for exact deadline date.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Op Loftbed $500 Scholarship Award


OP Loftbed $500 Scholarship Award

Thank you for your interest in the OP Loftbed $500 Scholarship Award! We are proud to be able to 'give something back' to the group that has made OP Loftbed the number one choice in loft beds by America's college students.


Winter 2010 Scholarship - Apply online now!

Impact Coalition



Founded in 1991, IMPACT Coalition is a non-profit educational organization that mentors inner city kids in New York and all around the U.S. using debate training; to help them improve their career opportunities, become informed citizens, and potentially earn big college scholarships just for doing so.

Since 2008 alone, IMPACT has helped connect students to scholarship opportunities valued at over $5 million just for debating. More than 150 colleges offer debate scholarships. Universities use urban debaters to diversity their entering classes with promising students from neighborhoods they cannot access normally.


Since 1991, over 5000 participants have attended IMPACT events and been featured on MTV, NPR, 60 Minutes, U.S. News & World Report, The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and countless others. Their program reach extends from 5th grade students at Bronx Prep to 5th year college seniors. When given the opportunity, kids living in the inner city faced with enormous challenges can achieve their highest aspirations. Seeing is believing. Debate delivers dreams.

If interested in checking out IMPACT or getting involved with helping kids reach their dreams, please go to IMPACTCOALITION.ORG or any of their pages on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Association For Prevention Teaching and Research

The APTR-ODPHP Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for
four (4) new fellowship positions!

· Two (2) Community Strategies Fellowships
· One (1) Prevention Science Fellowship
· One (1) Healthy People Communication Fellowship

For more information and to download an application package, click here.

Questions? Email us at: training@aptrweb.org