Scholarships

All MSBSD Scholarships

Click the link to access the district's database of scholarships.  Some may be duplicated on our page as well.

All MSBSD Scholarships Link

Air Force Aid Society

Grants ranging from $500 to $4,000 are awarded to eligible Air Force dependents each year. The specific amount awarded correlates to a student’s particular level of financial need.

A unique feature to this program – each grant awarded carries the name of an individual or organization exemplifying service to the USAF, and that biographical information is sent to each grant recipient.

Air Force Aid Society Link

Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship Program

Award: $10,000

Applicants to the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship Program must be:

• Be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
• Be high school seniors who are currently enrolled in or who have completed an advanced placement computer science course or who have taken an advanced placement computer science test.
• Be planning to enroll in full-time undergraduate study at an accredited four-year college or university for the entire upcoming academic year majoring in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering or other computer related field of study.
• Have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (or its equivalent).

Immediate family members of Amazon employees or its subsidiaries are not eligible to apply.

Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship Program Link

The Alaska Community Foundation

At the Alaska Community Foundation, we understand that researching and applying for scholarships is confusing and time-consuming. We wish to support you as much as we can during the application process. The good news is the earlier in high school you prepare to apply for scholarships, the more likely you are to be awarded one!

We have over 30 scholarships available, for which you may be eligible. Take a look at our quick step by step process that will help you navigate the scholarship process—from start to finish.

The Alaska Community Foundation Link

College Covered

College Decision Day is quickly approaching as acceptance and award letters roll in.  We have integrated some new tools into College Covered to make it easier for students to make an informed choice on where they go to college.

• Compare Award Letters: The Award Letter is an important factor for many families as they try to figure out which schools they can afford to send their student to. However, they’re not always written in the clearest language. Our Award Letter Comparison Tool, can help students and parents interpret their financial aid packages from up to 5 different schools to help determine which one is best for them.
• College Decision Day: Some of your students may know which school they want to attend without a doubt, but others may be a bit unsure. Either way, now that they’ve been accepted, making that final choice can be intimidating. That’s why we’ve created this handy quiz to help students decide what's the best fit.
• Scholarship Sweepstakes Award: It’s not too late to get more money for college. Your students and parents have a chance to win a $10,000 scholarship from Discover Student Loans! The first drawing is April 9, so be sure to have them visit College Covered to enter.

 College Covered Link

Cyrus Aldeman Scholarship Award

$500.00
This scholarship goes to the first person of the 11% in the graduating class of WHS.  Awardee will be notified by WHS and must attend banquet ceremony to receive the scholarship.  No application required, you will be notified by your counselor if you are the lucky recipient of this award.

Daughters of the American Revolution (Deadline: 1/15/2022)

The DAR Good Citizens program and scholarship contest is intended to encourage and reward the qualities of good citizenship. The program is open to all senior class students enrolled in accredited public or private secondary schools that are in good standing with their state boards of education. United States citizenship is not required. The student selected as the school’s DAR Good Citizen must have the qualities of: Dependability, truthfulness, loyalty, punctuality and being worthy of trust cooperation, courtesy, and contributing to the welfare of others personality, self-control, ability to assume responsibility, ability to inspire others, and a decision-maker, devotion to and support of one’s country, supporting service members and veterans, working for causes. That make one’s community stronger, and appreciating the cultural and historic importance of America’s unique population.

DAR Scholarship Application (PDF)

Design a Better Future Scholarship (Deadline: 4/28/2022)

• High school students can participate in a design-thinking community building project:
• Design & work on a community improvement project.
• Optional: Share work for some checkpoint feedback before the final deadline by April 28, 2022.
• Submit final design thinking project application by May 28, 2022.

There will be up to 5 awardees, each receiving a $10,000 scholarship to the college, university, or trade school of their choice. We will also fund the top project up to $5,000.

Design a Better Future Scholarship Link

Discover Business

As part of our collection of business education resources, our in-house experts Prof. Dennis Masino and Jackie Giuliano, Ph.D. made a list of scholarships for accounting and business students.

It provides up-to-date information on 100+ privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed information on the awards that are available from private sources such as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations.

It is our aim to help improve a student's chances of landing a scholarship by making the search process a little easier:

Accounting Degree Scholarships from DiscoverBusiness.us

Business Degree Scholarships from DiscoverBusiness.us

FASTWEB

One of the most reputable scholarship matching sites on the internet.  We highly recommend all students try Fastweb for assistance in finding targeted scholarships and financial aide.

FASTWEB Link

Federal Student Aide

The Office of Federal Student Aide offers helpful information on your FAFSA, Grants, Loans, and Scholarships.

Federal Student Aid Link

Free Speech Essay Contest

FIRE's essay contest - Students must submit an essay between 800 and 1, 000 words on the provided topic "Free Speech".  One $10,000 first prize, one $5,000 second prize, and three $1,000 runner-up prizes will be awarded for the best essays.  Four $500 winners will be chose from the remaining entrants in a drawing.

Free speech Essay Contest Link

Kuskokwim Educational Foundation

Eligibility requirements:

• Must have attained high school diploma or G.E.D.
• Be admitted full-time or part-time into an accredited post-secondary or vocational training program
• Be a TKC Shareholder
• Complete the required application and materials by deadline
• All applicants must be in good academic standing (cumulative and term GPA 2.5 or higher)

In addition to meeting all other KEF General Scholarship criteria, Competitive Scholarship eligibility requirements include:

Leo morgan Memorial Scholarship

• Minimum GPA 3.5 or higher
• Demonstrated financial need

Palmetto Scholarship

• Aerospace major or closely related field of study
• Minimum GPA 3.0 or higher

Mary Morgan Wolf Memorial Scholarship

• A Native student from the Middle Kuskokwim region
• Health related field of study
• Minimum GPA 3.0 or higher

Glenn "Timy" Fredericks Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Business related field of study
• Minimum GPA 3.0 or higher

Nick Mellick Memorial Scholarship

• Business related field of study
• Minimum GPA 3.0 or higher

Kuskokwim Educational Opportunities Link

LATUTORS (monthly)

• Must currently be enrolled as a high school or college/university student within the United States or Canada.
• Must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 (or the equivalent).
• Must be a citizen of, permanent resident of, or hold a valid student visa in the United States or Canada.
• Must have designed an innovative project that makes a difference in the lives of others (This could be a website, series of blogs, an app, fundraising event, etc.)
• Must submit an essay describing the goal of the particular project and provide supporting documentation.
• The essay, idea, or creation must be the applicant’s original work.

All submissions must be uploaded no later than 11:59 pm PST on the 20th of each month. The submission window closes starting the 21st and will reopen on the 1st at 8:00 a.m.

Scholarship winners will be contacted via email and must respond within five(5) days of the date of the email to accept the award. If no response is received within this time, another recipient will be selected.

LATUTORS LINK

Mat-Su Health Foundation Scholarships

All programs must be in a health or human services field.

Academic scholarship application link (Opens January 3rd/Deadline: 2/28/2022)

Vocational scholarship link (open year round)

MSHF Flyer (PDF)

National Technical Honor Society

Founded 1984, NTHS currently serves over 4,200 career and technical schools and colleges throughout America.  Activate your NTHS Chapter so that your high-achieving CTE students will be eligible for over $260,000 in NTHS Scholarships this school year.

NTHS provides unequaled, proven resources essential to honoring students, businesses, and industry professionals.  Join with NTHS to honor your CTE students and local business and industry leaders for their loyalty, support, and guidance.

National Technical Honor Society Link

OppU Achievers Scholarship

Award Amount:$2,500

Eligibility: High school seniors, college students, graduate students; ccumulative GPA of at least 3.0/4.0; U.S. citizen or resident.

To Apply: Students submit a short response to the question "What makes you an achiever?"

OppU Link

P.E.O. Chapter Q Scholarship (Deadline: 3/15/2022)

Minimum Standards: A 3.0 GPA

A completed application should be accompanied by:

1. Unofficial Transcripts from most recent academic institution
2. (2) Current Letters of Reference (within the past 12 months)
3. Resume (if available)

Recommendations to applicants from Scholarship Committee:

1. Application should be typed and spell-checked. Have someone proofread it. 
2. Keep in mind that you are introducing yourself to people who don’t know you and want to understand your experience, vision and dreams.
3. Be authentic and honest. Share experiences relevant to advance your application.
4. Be proud of yourself and your life experiences.

P.E.O Chapter Q Scholarship Form (PDF)

Scholarship Guidance

Scholarship Guidance was created in 2011 to help students find scholarship opportunities for the upcoming school year. Our scholarship database is used by high schools and post-secondary schools across the nation. Scholarship Guidance believes in supporting the open source community by ensuring our scholarship resources are always provided free of charge. Students, Counselors and Parents enjoy lifetime free access to all of our resources, regardless of year of study or school affiliation.

Scholarship Guidance Link

Student Scholarships

Scholarship Clearinghouse, searchable database

Student Scholarships Link

Student Scholarship Search

An Online database of scholarships with a matching tool to help you find appropriate scholarships.

Student Scholarship Search Link

Sunshine Community Health Center (Deadline: 04/01/2022)

Applications are available: December 1, 2021 and due by April 1, 2022. Funds available in June 2022.

1. Applicant must be a senior in high school and accepted into higher education. Houston High School, Su-Valley High School and area home school students are eligible.
   
2. Applicant must have a health care related career plan.
   
3. Applicant must have participated in 2 extracurricular activities and been involved in 2 service projects.
   
4. Applicant must complete attached essay application.  (below)
   
5. Applicant must have a letter of recommendation from their counselor and/or high school Department chair for health/wellness.
   
6. Applicant must attach their current unofficial transcript.
   
7. The counselor or department chair must sign the application to ensure that the academic information submitted is accurate.
   
8. All materials (application, transcript & essay) must be postmarked to:
   

2022 SWE Greatland Section Scholarship (Deadline: 2/9/2022)

The Society of Women Engineers Greatland Section is pleased to offer one $2,000 and two $1,500 scholarships to female high school seniors in Alaska planning to pursue a degree in engineering. Please fill out the attached application and submit to the SWE Greatland Scholarship Committee by Wednesday, February 9, 2022.

Applicant must be a young woman who:

• is a high school senior in Alaska
• intends to enroll in an ABET-accredited engineering program at a four-year college or university (engineering programs that are not ABET-accredited do not qualify)

SWE Greatland Scholarship Link

The "Test Yourself" Scholarship From STDLabs

Next Scholarship Deadlines For 2022: Spring Scholarship Deadline - June 1stScholarship Deadlines For 2022: Fall Scholarship Deadline - November 1stScholarship Awarded Amount: $1500 awarded for Spring Scholarship$1500 awarded for Fall Scholarship

The “Test Yourself” Scholarship of $1,500.00 is awarded twice per year: once in the Spring and once in the Fall. Each award will be given to a different student, in order to maximize the impact of the scholarship, increase awareness and critical consideration of the stubborn taboos around topics such as STD testing, and share more stories from inspirational people.

Scholarship Eligibility And Requirements:

• Any student currently enrolled in, or applying to enrol within the next academic year, in any degree program, at an accredited U.S. university, is eligible to apply.
• You must provide your school GPA.
• You must be at least 18 years old.
• Past winners are not eligible to apply again.
• Please do not submit emails simply asking if your essay was received. Unless you receive a failure to deliver message, then we have received your submission and are reviewing your essay.
• Please read the full submission instructions before contacting us with questions related to the scholarship. If your question is not answered within the submission instructions, please contact scholarship@stdlabs.com and we will reply to your inquiry as soon as possible.
• The scholarship recipient will be selected approximately 30 days after the submission deadline. Unsuccessful applicants will not be notified if they are not selected but are encouraged to apply again for the next scholarship. Please do not email asking if or when a winner has been selected.
• Scholarship winners will be notified by email, and will need to submit a photocopy of their government issued state identification card or driver’s license upon notification.

How To Apply:

Qualifying applicants should submit the following information via email to scholarship@stdlabs.com

• Your name, address, phone number, contact email address, and GPA.
• Your scholarship essay of between 750 and 1,000 words, explaining the challenge or testing experience you undertook, what motivated or pushed you to engage in the challenge, and what you gained from the experience. You could also touch upon your broader perspective regarding challenges and resilience.
• Please attach your scholarship essay in a Word file.
• Submit your essay before each deadline before 12:00am CST. Essays received after the deadline will not be considered.
  • Spring Scholarship Deadline – June 1st, 2020
  • Fall Scholarship Deadline – November 1st, 2020
• A copy of your most recent academic transcript to prove enrollment in a degree program from accredited US institutions.
  — or —
• A copy of your letter of acceptance, proving future enrollment in a degree program from accredited US institutions.

Here’s What We’re Looking For:

Our mission is to create awareness surrounding sexually transmitted diseases and empower more people to embrace questions about their sexual health head-on. We want to also encourage a change in prevailing attitudes where uncomfortable subjects are avoided. This helps to protect an individual’s health, as well as the health of others. That is why we offer fast, confidential and affordable STD Testing across the country, and why we’re now offering the “Test Yourself” scholarship.

We want to know what drove you to embrace a personal or societal challenge. What are the key elements which you needed to prepare for? And what are (or might be) the key lessons you learned from the experience? What does the sense of achievement feel like/mean to you? Testing yourself builds resilience, and we are looking for a sense of your personality in your essay – be bold!

We hope that the individuals who win the “Test Yourself” scholarship can be ambassadors for others to tackle concerns regarding their personal health. Our selection process will take into consideration originality, creativity of expression, passion and ambition. Please don’t be discouraged if you are not successful – the “Test Yourself” concept aims to be a celebration of all challenges. You are free to enter again if you are not selected. Finalist essays will be shared on social media and winners will be displayed on our website along with your picture, city/state and partial name. We look forward to hearing your stories.

STDlabs Scholarship Link

True North Federal Credit Union (Deadline: 3/5/2022)

Eligibility Requirements: 

• Applicant must be a resident of Alaska.
• Applicant must be graduating from high school or equivalent in Spring 2022.
• Applicant must intend to be a full-time student for the Fall 2022 semester at an accredited college, university or technical school in any of the 50 United States. Funds will be disbursed to the winning applicants’ school of choice.
• Applicant cannot be related to a True North Board member, True North Supervisory Committee member, True North Executive Management Team or the judging panel.
• Minimum Unweighted Cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA): 3.00

True North Scholarship Link

University of Alaska Fairbanks

We know how important financial certainty is to your ability to succeed as a student. With awards ranging from $1,000 to $10,000, Nanook Pledge is a new approach to scholarships at UAF and is designed to provide you with four years of predictable financial assistance.  Nanook Pledge maximizes your access to UAF scholarship funding and allows you to focus on your top priority - academic success. This is our investment in you. 

To be considered for the Nanook Pledge:

• Complete the application for admission.
• Submit test scores and transcripts. Students may upload unofficial in-progress transcripts and self-report their ACT or SAT scores at the time of application. Final official transcripts and test scores will be required before enrolling.

Students will be notified of their total offer over four years in the admissions packet.

UAF Financial Aid Link

Visionary Scholarship Program (Deadline: 5/1/2022)

All applications for the American College Foundation (“ACF”) Visionary Scholarship Program will consist of:

1) a completed ACF Visionary Scholarship Application

2) a copy of the student’s most recent unofficial high school transcript

3) a 500 word, typed, double-spaced essay. All components of the application must be received for a student to be eligible for an award. Applications are judged on the ability to follow guidelines (25%), grammar and punctuation (25%), and the merit of the written essay (50%). Applicants must be United States Citizens or Eligible Non-Citizens and may be asked to participate in a qualification interview as part of the application process to assist the ACF in ultimately determining the winners. Awards range from $1,000 - $5,000 each; with multiple winners to be selected. Each award is a non-renewable, one-time award and is to be used exclusively to offset costs and fees related directly to the student’s first year of higher post-secondary education at an accredited institution of the student’s choosing within the United States. Relatives of the American College Foundation Staff are NOT eligible to apply.

Visionary Scholarship Program Link