Fwd: Scholarship Opportunity for Students

As we begin preparing for end of fall 2009 semester and a short break from classes, now is a great time to remind students to apply for scholarships and other types of financial aid for the 2010-2011 academic year. Attached is information about a scholarship competition that previously included Phoenix College students. Please share the attached materials and web addresses with students. The deadline has been extended until January 8, 2010. Thank you very much!




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  The Court of Public Opinion Now Has an Address --
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Scholarship Competition
Deadline Extended to Jan. 8


Our Voice Our Country's National Scholarship Competition
deadline has been extended until January 8th, at 8 p.m.
eastern time. This is being done to allow more time over
the holiday break for students and their recommended
ProblemSolvers to post their entries.

This past summer, www.ourvoiceourcountry.org held its first
$1,000 Scholarship Competition, and *a number of your
students participated.
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*Please alert your students now *about this extended
opportunity to join in the competition, or to rate entries.
*This is a wonderful and efficient way to engage
your students in considering the critical issues
before us.*

Please email scholarship@ourvoiceourcountry.org <mailto:scholarship@ourvoiceourcountry.org> to let
us know when you have passed this information along.

We appreciate your help in getting the word out more
widely than we (as a new non profit) are able to,
and its all to benefit your students!
www.ourvoiceourcountry.org/participate/scholarship.aspx?ReturnUrl=participate/scholarship.aspx <http://ourvoiceourcountry.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94208baa22693f4ed58745f5b&id=f5f7255cb4&e=ac16575722>

Our Voice Our Country's user-friendly, interactive and
non-partisan competitions invite college students from
across America to articulate what they believe to be an
urgent national problem, and to identify experts in the field
with achievable solutions. These accessible competitions
put your students' entries before a national audience,
eligible to become a People's Resolution, which would be
delivered to Congress for action, when we start our full process
in 2010.

Our first competition, held this past summer garnered
563 entries from all across America.
Winner Kelsey Price, a freshman at University of Utah
identified the FATA Region of Pakistan as her /Topic/;
and she proposed Hassan Abbas, a former police chief
from that region (now a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government and Asia Society) as her
/ProblemSolver./

The story of the winning entry, including Dr. Abbas'
10 point plan to resolve conflict in the FATA region was
picked up by AP, featured in several newspapers, TV news,
on international blogs and online news pages. Honorable
Mention in the Summer competition went to Kelly Novinski at
Florida Atlantic Univeristy, who identified Wetland Preservation
as an urgent national issue.

Videos about their experience, posted by Kelsey and Kelly can
be viewed at the website.

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QUOTES FROM PARTICIPANTS

" Add my name to your list of supporters, as I greatly
admire your efforts to engage young people in public
service. "
*- Jim Ramstad,
Republican Member of Congress (1990-2008)
*(Judge for Summer Competition)
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"...a good way to hear many unspoken individuals
and their ideas...an effective program
that needs to continue."
*- User comment 11/09

*"I love this site...y'all are great!"
*- User comment 11/09
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"The website is amazing..I love the concept,
purpose and faith it shares with everybody."
*- User comment, 7/09 *

"The website and idea behind the initiative is
great and worth supporting indeed. A very
creative way to involve students and
encourage them to think about critical issues
faced by the U.S., in the domestic as well as
the international arena. "
- *Dr. Hassan Abbas, Fellow at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and
Asia Society
*(ProblemSolver for Winning Entry,
Summer Competition)

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WEB SITE PROGRAM/INFO
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www.ourvoiceourcountry.org <http://ourvoiceourcountry.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94208baa22693f4ed58745f5b&id=b6c2958036&e=ac16575722> provides the opportunity
for all Americans to express their concerns, gives
visibility to those ready to provide answers, and
clarifies what does, and what does not fly
in the 'Court of Public Opinion.'


/Our Voice Our Country/ was developed over the past
6 years, with endorsements and input from
Walter Cronkite, Yolanda King, Joanne Woodward,
Ruby Dee, Jane Alexander, judges, teachers,
lawyers, students, seniors, soldiers, current and
retired politicians, leaders of national non-partisan
organizations and dozens of blue and white collar
workers of all political parties and beliefs,
from across the Country.

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