Elizabethtown College administration offers students academic, community-based and need-based scholarships. Currently, two scholarships are being accepted for review.
The Elizabethtown College Entrepreneurship Scholarship and the Nuts About Granola Innovation Scholarship are both unique scholarships that allow students to demonstrate innovative thinking and creativity. These scholarships allow the recipient to apply his or her proposed projects to real life.
In 2005, alumni Charles ’86 and Cynthia ’85 Ebersole created the Entrepreneurship Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to a student who shows promise for entrepreneurship.
The recipient will receive a minimum of $4,000 and the opportunity to develop an entrepreneurial idea into a practical entrepreneurship project in a chosen field or discipline. The student will always be given the opportunity to develop a further entrepreneurship plan alongside a successful Etown alumnus. The scholarship is open to full-time Etown students of any discipline who are in good academic standing.
The application for the scholarship is a four-step process; students will be asked to submit personal data, answer specific questions, propose an entrepreneurship project or idea and finally present the project to the Entrepreneurship Scholarship Committee.
The Entrepreneurship Scholarship Committee will review the written application and choose the top three to five applicants, who will then present their five to 10 minute presentations. The recipient of the award must be able to commit to working with a mentor during the year, creating the practical entrepreneurship model. The recipient will also exhibit a commitment to implementing the resulting practical model for his or her project.
Students can download the application online at www.etown.edu/giving by selecting “Entrepreneurship Scholarship.” The application is due on March 10 and the award will be announced on April 16. The scholarship is active from August 2014 to May 2015, and the recipient will work on the entrepreneurship project during the academic year. For more information about this scholarship, contact Marty Thomas-Brummé at BRUMMEM@ETOWN.EDU.
The Nuts About Granola company was created by Etown College graduate Sarah Lanphier ’09, who thought of the idea as a fundraising opportunity for the triathlon team. The Nuts About Granola Innovation Scholarship is funded by a portion of the proceeds from the co-branded “Etown Carrot Cake Granola.” The scholarship is funded through the full circle approach.
The Nuts About Granola company produces the granola for sale, and a portion of the proceeds from the sales funds the scholarship. As granola sales increase, so does the scholarship fund. The scholarship will be awarded to a full-time Etown student who possesses creativity and a passion for healthy living, along with innovative thinking.
The 2014 scholarship theme is “What if?” The scholarship committee is challenging students to ask this question and then to take an original, unedited photo of something they would like to change for the better. The student is asked to sign-on to the Nuts About Granola Facebook page, submit an image that represents a product, service or process that he or she would like to change or improve and include a description of why or how they would change that product, service or process for the better. The scholarship committee encourages students to submit multiple pictures and is looking for interesting, creative, unusual or innovative examples.
The application period is from March 1 to the 31, and the recipient will be announced at the Annual Student Awards Day on April 16. For more information about this scholarship, contact Sarah Lanphier at SARAH@NUTSABOUTGRANOLA.COM.
