She Sparks Scholarship
Eligibility
Awards
Important Dates
This scholarship is not a traditional scholarship focused on rewarding academic achievement and Âfinancial need. Its specific goal is to reward and encourage innovative and creative goal setting. The scholarship aims to honor students who excel as creative thinkers and to help make their higher education goals more accessible.
Five (5) non-renewable $300.00 book stipends will be awarded to exceptional female high school seniors who can visually demonstrate how she Âfinds SPARK in everyday life and how she will use her hopes and passion to pursue her educational goals and professional aspirations.
Eligible applicants to the She Sparks Scholarship for must satisfy these two conditions:
1. Applicant must be (a) a female high school senior, or (b) any female entering an undergraduate degree program* in the fall after the application deadline or the following spring.
2. Applicant must be (a) a Georgia or Atlanta metropolitan area resident planning to attend or attending an institution of higher education anywhere in the United States, or (b) a resident of any part of the U.S. planning to attend or attending an institution of higher education in GA or Atlanta Metropolitan.
Note: from 2012 to 2014, the scholarship was a scholarship limited to Atlanta students. Beginning in 2015, it was opened to Atlanta Metropolitan area and Georgia students, as set out above.
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Scholarship Applications due: Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Awards Determined, May 1, 2015
Awards Program: June 13, 2015
Past Winners
2013-Present
- N. Ballard
- J. Hunter
- N. Wilson
- M. Roscell
- T. Miller
- G. Smith
We anticipate granting 1-5 awards of up to $300.00 to $1,500.00 each to applicants who demonstrate exceptional innovation and creativity. Financial need will not affect the selection of recipients. However, the amount of any award, from $300.00 to $1500.00 per year will be determined by the financial need of the recipient.
How to Apply
Please visit Application page for details
Selection of Recipients
The Selection Committee will select the applicants who show the most promise as innovative, creative problem solvers, on the basis of their essays, letters of recommendation, and other information included with the application. Academic and extracurricular information play an important secondary role in helping the Committee get a macro picture of the applicant, but these are not the basis on which the scholarship is awarded.
Financial need does not play a role in determining the selection of applicants
The Selection Committee reserves the right to decide, on a case-by-case basis, to contact applicants for phone interviews or to request additional materials. Applicants should not assume they have not won the scholarship if they are not contacted for an interview. Applicants will be notified by mail in early June whether or not they have been awarded a scholarship.
Payment of Scholarships
On behalf of the Clarissa J. Sparks, LLC will process scholarship awards and mail them to the recipients' undergraduate educational institution. Checks will be made payable jointly to the student and the school and must be endorsed by both.
Obligations
Recipients are required to provide Clarissa J. Sparks, LLC. (She Sparks) with current transcripts and to notify of any changes in school address, school enrollment, or other relevant information..
Additional Information
Questions regarding The She Sparks Project should be directed to:
Clarissa J. Sparks |678-395-6539|info@shesparks.com| www.shesparks.com