DISC Scholarships

Thanks to your support this past year, DISC will once again offer up to $10,000 in scholarships to deserving candidates in 2011-2012. Winners will be notified in April 2011 with public announcement made at Global Finals in May. Scholarships will be awarded for the 2011-2012 Academic Year, beginning with Fall semester.

The 2010 Award Recipients were announced in May at Global Finals.  A complete list of awardees can be found by clicking here. The DISC scholarship sub-committee is looking forward to reviewing the many exciting applications that you will be sending in.

• Applicants should be either graduating from high school or currently pursuing a post High School degree in a Trade School, Community College or University. They must be accepted at a college/university or other post secondary educational institution and planning to attend in the school year 2011-2012
• Must have participated in at least one of the creative problem solving programs that Destination ImagiNation has sponsored- as a team member and/or in a volunteer capacity.
• If applying while pursuing Post High School graduation, the applicant should be actively continuing his or her involvement in Destination ImagiNation in some capacity – either as a team member or as a volunteer. See the website for further details.
• Participants from our international affiliates are welcomed and encouraged to apply, but should realize we do require the materials to be presented in English as we do not have translators available. Our international applicants should also be aware that the awards will are be paid to their learning institution in US Dollars.

For the DISC Scholarship search, it is the applicant’s CREATIVITY and involvement that are  deemed most important. We want to see you use your creativity and divergent thinking! The most weight in our scoring is applied to the creativity of the solution to our challenges, and the past and continued involvement of the applicant. Scholarship applicants may choose from the following tracks:  Personal Essay, Internet and Presentation. The maximum award for the Essay track will be $500.00. Award amounts for the other two tracks will be higher determined  by the quality, value and depth of the entries submitted.

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