SMEDP - Summer Medical Dental Educational Program - Deadline: March 1, 2010

SMDEP is a free (full tuition, housing, and meals) six-week summer medical and dental school preparatory program that offers eligible students intensive and personalized medical and dental school preparation.

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Who's Eligible?

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Program Sites

The SMDEP will be offering travel scholarships for students meeting the guideline qualifications. The deadline for application is on March 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm (EST). Scholarships must be completed in order to apply. Click below for details:

Travel Scholarship Information
(SMDEP Travel Scholarship: Application Available: December 1, 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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2010 Imagine Cup Student Technology Competition -- Register Now

The 2010 World Finals: Warsaw, Poland in July, 2010.

Each year the Finals are held in a different city of the world. Past World Finals include Cairo, Egypt (2009), Paris, France (2008); Seoul, South Korea (2007); Delhi, India (2006); Yokohama, Japan (2005); Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004); and Barcelona, Spain (2003). The 2010 World Finals will be held in Warsaw, Poland in , 2010.

The world can't wait! Register now!

The 2010 Theme: “Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.”

This is the theme for Imagine Cup 2010. Your mission, as a competitor, is to research, brainstorm, design, and develop potential solutions that address the toughest problems facing our world.

The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today in its Millennium Goals. This year the Imagine Cup uses these ambitious challenges as a guiding light to inspire change all over the world. Learn more about the eight Millennium Goals.

Click to view the Competition Overview

Read the various competition pages links below to view the deadline dates and instructions:

Software Design

Game Design

Digital Media

IT Challenge

Embedded Development

For more information please visit http://www.imaginecup.com/

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship -- Deadline: October 6, 2009

Program Overview & ObjectivesThe Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad. Such international study is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.

Online application for Spring 2010 and Summer 2010 is now open! Application deadline is October 6, 2009!

Apply Now!

Thinking of Applying

If you have questions, please contact the Gilman Program staff at gilman@iie.org

NIDDK StepUp -- Deadline: February 15, 2010

NIDDK Short-term Education Program for Underrepresented Persons

(STEP-UP)

High School Program

PLEASE NOTE: The application deadline is February 15, 2010. No applications will accepted after this date.

Program Purpose:

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease’s STEP-UP Program is designed to provide short-term research education for high school students from racial and ethnic minority or disadvantaged backgrounds to expose them to research within the mission area of NIDDK.

The Program exposes students to research in areas of diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, nutrition, obesity, digestive, liver, urologic, kidney, and hematologic diseases.

The Program provides support for 8 full-time consecutive weeks of basic or clinical research education and training during the summer provided by experienced faculty currently active in research related to the mission of NIDDK.

Additional Information and how to apply (click link)

2010 Youth Servant Leadership Oratorical Contest -- Deadline: December 11, 2009

MIFA's fifth annual oratorical contest challenges teens

Each year, students in the Memphis area are invited to participate in MIFA's Youth Servant Leadership Oratorical Contest, which is held in honor of the profound oratorical legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Students are invited to submit brief speeches in response to the year's theme. This year, the deadline for submissions is December 11, 2009, and the theme is "Something Good in Memphis: My Blueprint for Service."

Application materials include:

• Completed application (download here)

• Letter of recommendation

• Typed, double-spaced essay in Microsoft Word

• Transcript or last report card

Students must:

• Be currently enrolled in and attending public school in Memphis/Shelby County

• Be between the ages of 14 and 18 as of December 31, 2009

• Have at least a 2.5 grade point average

• Submit a letter of recommendation from a teacher, counselor, faith leader, or employer

Download the complete information packet and application or review tips for the contest. If you are interested in being a mentor, review the qualifications here.

For more information, contact Carlos U. Royston at (901) - 529-4557.

Additional Information and last year's winning essay.

Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) - Scholarships

Receive Full Tuition, Book Stipend, Extra Cash and More...



N R O T C S C H O L A R S H I P S





The NROTC Program was established to educate and train qualified young men and women for service as commissioned officers in the unrestricted line for the Navy or Marine Corps. Selected applicants for the NROTC Scholarship Program are awarded scholarships through a highly competitive national selection process, and receive full tuition, books stipend, educational fees and other financial benefits at many of the country's leading colleges and universities. Upon graduation, midshipmen are commissioned as officers in the United States Navy or Marine Corps. Full information concerning the NROTC Scholarship Program is available from any of the colleges and universities with NROTC units or from Navy and Marine Corps recruiters. 1-800-NAV-ROTC.


Selected applicants for the NROTC Scholarship Program are awarded scholarships through a highly competitive national selection process, and receive full tuition, books stipend, educational fees and other financial benefits at many of the country's leading colleges and universities. Upon graduation, midshipmen are commissioned as officers in the United States Navy or Marine Corps.



Requirements (click link to view online)

Colleges/Universities NROTC Units (click link to view online)

NROTC Brochure (click link to view online)

To Start An Application:

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Full information concerning the NROTC Scholarship Program is available from any of the colleges and universities with NROTC units or from Navy and Marine Corps recruiters, visit:
NROTC.

Student that applies for the 4 year National NROTC Scholarship can attendany college that has a NROTC Unit or a cross town school. Any student that receives a HBCU NROTC Scholarship must attend the following HBCU: (The schools must have a NROTC Unit or cross town.)

Allen University, Clark Atlanta University, Dillard University, Florida A&M University, Hampton University, Howard University, Huston-Tillotson University, Morehouse College, Norfolk State University, Prairie View A&M University, Savannah State College, Southern University, Southern A&M University, Tennessee State University Texas Southern University, Tuskegee University, Spelman College and Xavier University

70 African American Students Received a 4 year National NROTC Scholarships for 2008. Over 200 African Americans received HBCU 4 yr NROTC Scholarships. In 2009, 129 African American Students Received a 4 year National NROTC Scholarships.