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are investigating sites to recommend for finding scholarships online.
Many scholarships are available to students who never find them. Just
because they don't know they exist. For example, there are scholarships
for students with specific names, or students with unusual interests,
or by students religion, or by place or country of birth and even for
certain birthdays, etc. A good place to start is your State of residence.
Look up your State, type 'scholarships' (and the name of your State) in
the Google search window and go from there. After that, try other States.
Some scholarships do not require specific State residence and some States
have a liberal residency requirement. Following are some sites for this
kind of info and recommended by noted individuals or leading periodicals.
Some are free, like; www.collegelink
(part of fastweb) and www.scholarship.com.
Some sites that do have fees are www.synexpress.com,
and www.fastweb.com
(fastweb also has some free services). The scholarship money amount varies,
with most in the $1,000.00 to $3,000.00 range. To help you, all of these
sites can make your name and address available to schools and others who
will send information to you by mail and email. In addition, the college
of your choice is a good site to check for scholarship links and availability.
And don't forget to check your States for Grants based on family income.
Grants are in addition to scholarships. Most important!!! Check the information
below on applying for a Pell
Grant.
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Everyone should know about the federally funded PELL
Grant. That means, if you are reading this and you don't
have complete information on the Pell Grant, GET IT !!! Go to the student
guide web site for Pell Grants. Click
here
(On Monday, October 11, 2004, a study was
released that said; "Hundreds of thousands of college students, eligible
for the Pell Grant, did not get one because they did not APPLY."
The study concluded that 850,000 of those students would have been eligible
for the Pell Grant, the principal grant for students in low-income homes.
It was said the complexity of the form is very often the reason students
don't apply. Almost all colleges or high Schools are willing to assist
in filling out the form.
LIBRARIES
In a recent issue, Janet Rubenking wrote a great article for PC magazine
on how to go online for information by visiting your local library. Or
any library. She says, go online, visit the Library of Congress and locate
the link to your library; www.loc.gov./global/library/statelib.html
Or you can look up your local library in Google. We are still in awe of
the ability to sit at home and visit sites like the Library of Congress.
eBOOKS
Download free classics in ebook form or for your Palm handheld. Visit
the University of Virginia's free classic library. It has over 1800 titles.
Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Tolstoy,Verne, Bible,
Wells, Melville, Kipling, , . etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
(Also check Google, enter 'free ebooks'.)
EDUCATIONAL FUN & INFORMATION WEBSITES
ipl.org/div/kidspace
is a portal on the University of Michigan's super 'internet public library'
site. You won't want to leave. For kids or teens with homework or something
puzzling, or any kind of general information, you can search here. All
easy to find. Great Site. www.worldwidewords.org
This a wonderful word site by the British author and scholar extraordinaire,
Michael Quinion. For anyone with an interest in words, including future
and present intellectuals. When all else fails, find
it in the encyclopedia, at www.britannica.com
. You'll wish you were a premium subscriber.
For those who enjoy little fun games; www.popcap.
com The great New
Yorker cartoons are online at; wwwcartoonbank.com
Prepare to stay awhile. Read a National Geographic magazine and the world
comes alive in spectacular pictures. For pure enjoyment, the pictures
are even more spectacular on the web, visit, www.nationalgeographic
We checked some virtual game sites recommended by Mercedes M. Soto, Project
Director of Chicago’s IT Resource Center. All are interest grabbers.
You can have some fun, play some games, and enjoy learning while developing
skills. Play a game and learn about the brain and other parts of the body.
www.medtropolis.com/vbody.as
The prestigious Nobel Prize. Wow, wouldn't it be great to win the Nobel
Prize? Find out who the winners were, what they won it for and why they
won. And at the same time find some games and use multimedia too. Another
super site; www.Nobel.se
Want to get interested in banking and be near all that money. For math
and the ways of banking, try; www.kidsbank.com
Find out how math is used in all kinds of financing, www.moneyopolis.com
You can use a computer and computer games to find out about everything,
even computers and the sciences; www.kineticcity.com
(kits are required for some of the games.) How does the world interact
with science and technology; www.tryscience.org.
These are cool virtual educational game sites. When you see how much
fun you can have and learn too, you might dig in in college or after graduation
and discover something like a new drug or a medical miracle and everyone
will read all about it in the newspapers and TV. Wouldn't that be great?
Start by visiting these great fun filled sites, there's art (famous paintings
and artists) science, technology, music, health, math, English, languages,
and more.
Rev. 10/2005
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