**FIRST EMAIL**/2009 FIRST Scholarship News - May Update

[Mark McLeod]

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2009 FIRST Scholarship News – May Update

Greetings Teams,

It was great to meet some of you at the Championship in Atlanta at Scholarship Row. Those of you that visited us had a chance to speak to representatives from 28 colleges/universities or organizations that offer FIRST Scholarships. During the Championship, some of the students who had already been notified that they had won 2009 FIRST Scholarships gathered at Scholarship Row to meet and talk with Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers. See the picture of these scholarship winners at www.usfirst.org/scholarships.

SENIORS, there are still 14 FIRST Scholarships for which you can apply (whose application deadlines dates are in the future). And there are 2 scholarships left for which JUNIORS can apply. But hurry up, some of those deadline dates are approaching very quickly.

Eastern Michigan University (5/15)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/BAE Systems (5/15) (for JUNIORS)
International Fluid Power Society (5/31)
Fluid Power Educational Foundation (5/31)
Norfolk State University/BAE Systems (6/1)
Washtenaw Community College (6/10)
Society of Petroleum Engineers - Delta Section (6/15)
Colorado Technical University - Denver (6/20)
New Hampshire Technical Institute (6/30)
Westwood College (7/1)
College of Southern Maryland (7/1) (for JUNIORS and SENIORS)
Pennsylvania College of Technology (7/1)
Schoolcraft College (7/1)
University of Nevada Las Vegas – Engineering (7/1)
Lindenwood University (8/25)

Be sure to check out the FIRST Scholarship web page (at www.usfirst.org/scholarships) and follow the link to the 2009 FIRST Scholarship Opportunities. You can sort the scholarship list by application deadline date by clicking on the Deadline column header.

New FIRST Scholarships:

• University of Nevada Las Vegas, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering is offering one renewable scholarships for $5,000/year for studying engineering. The application deadline is 7/1/09.

FIRST Scholarship Winners -- To all of you who have already been offered a 2009 FIRST Scholarship, congratulations! This is a great achievement, and FIRST is very proud of you. Of course you will want to thank your scholarship provider. Your scholarship award letter may have included the name and address to whom you can send a thank you note. If not, you can contact the school/organization to ask for the contact information of the person to thank.

Team Mentors – Help us collect information about local scholarships for FIRST students
In addition to our official FIRST Scholarships that are listed on the FIRST website, there are many local scholarships specifically for students on FRC and FTC teams. FIRST Headquarters would like to recognize and understand the magnitude of these local scholarships. Please help us collect this data by notifying us of any students on your team who have won one of these scholarships. These are college scholarships that are offered only to FIRST students. They might be awarded by one of your team sponsors, a regional sponsor, your FIRST booster club, your high school, a local college, etc. (Please do not report students who have won one of the FIRST scholarships that are listed on the FIRST website. We are notified of these winners by the scholarship provider.)

To make it easy for you to report this information, please download the Excel spreadsheet from the link below,
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedfiles/Community/FRC/Scholarships/2009_Assets/2009_Local_Scholarships_for_FIRST_students_Report_ Form.xls

Complete this form (as fully as possible), and send as an email attachment to scholarships@usfirst.org. Thanks for your help!

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Fluid Power Educational Foundation
New Scholarships are available through the Fluid Power Educational Foundation for high school seniors who participated in the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition! These $500.00, non-renewable Scholarships are aimed at assisting high school seniors, who have been exposed to fluid power concepts by using pneumatics components and concepts in the construction of their FIRST robots, in paying for their education expenses if enrolled in an engineering or engineering-technology related program at one of the FPEF Key Schools [http://www.fpef.org/AboutKeySchools/Directory.htm].

For high school students who may be eligible, details, qualifications, and application forms can be found here: http://www.usfirst.org/scholarshipsearch.aspx (listed in alphabetical order, under “Fluid Power Educational Foundation.”) The deadline for application for these scholarships is May 31, 2009, so don’t delay!

Interested in finding out more about careers in the fluid power industry? Check out our Careers Brochure at http://www.fpef.org/Downloads/pdfs/CareersBroch_rev2007.pdf.

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Go teams!