Scholarship Award
The selection committee will review applications and select the recipients. Scholarship awardees will be announced at the Hispanic/Latino Summit, which will be held on Tuesday, October 12, 2021. The awardee must be in attendance to receive the scholarship.
Upon high school graduation, scholarship recipients are required to provide proof of enrollment from the accredited community college, college or university of the student’s choice in order to receive the scholarship funds. This scholarship must be used within two years of high school graduation.
Applications must be received by Friday, September 25, 2021.
Eligibility Criteria:
- Nebraska resident
- High school senior, or junior graduating in May of 2022
- GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 grade scale, or 3.5 or higher on a 5.0 grade scale
- Referred by a Nebraska school counselor, teacher or principal
- Attend the 2021 Hispanic/Latino Summit
- Gallery of Star representative for your school (Limit 5/school).
What to Submit:
- Scholarship Application
- Essay Responses
- Statement of Purpose
- Leadership Experience
- Letter of recommendation from a school counselor, teacher or principal
- Need to be one of the Gallery of Stars nominees for school (Limit 5/school).
Completed application, essays and letter of recommendation should be scanned and submitted by email to Sherry Landis by September 25, 2021 at sherri.landis@nebraska.gov.
If you have not received an email confirmation by September 29, 2021, indicating your application was received, please contact Sherri immediately at (402) 471-8306.
Questions?
Contact Benjamin Zink at benjamin.zink@nebraska.gov or (402) 471-2740 if you have questions.