[Students] External Scholarship Opportunity for Hispanic undergraduate students; Creativity at work

[Maria Ramos]

Maria del C. Ramos

Director, Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships
Texas A&M University-Commerce

PO Box 3011

Commerce, TX 75249-3011

Phone: 903-886-5091

Fax: 903-886-5098

http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/

Please take a minute to complete our We Care
<http://web.tamu-commerce.edu/audience/onestopshop/>  survey online and
let us know how we are doing!

 

 

 

From: HACU [mailto:memberinfo at hacu.net] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 11:45 AM
To: Maria Ramos
Subject: HACU launches Hispanic heritage video contest

 

HACU Member Advisory
May 13, 2011

Scholarships available for best Hispanic heritage student video

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and the
producers of The Hispanic College Quiz have announced the launch of a
video contest for undergraduate students to submit their personal
Hispanic heritage video for a chance to receive a scholarship award
ranging from $1,000 - $5,000.

Submissions must meet the following eligibility criteria:

*	The student must be an undergraduate student 
*	The student must be enrolled at a  HACU-member college or
university <http://www.hacu.net/hacu/HACU's_Members.asp>  in the United
States at the time video is submitted and scholarship awarded 
*	Video entry must be uploaded at www.hispaniccollegequiz.com
<http://www.hispaniccollegequiz.com/> , May 12 - Oct. 16 
*	Video entry must be a personal video, in English, that captures
the importance of student's Latino/Hispanic heritage 
*	Video length must be 1-2 minutes 

Three entries whose videos capture the most compelling message and
receive the most public votes will receive one of the following one-time
scholarship awards: first place - $5,000, second place - $2,500, and
third place - $1,000. Finalists will receive one round-trip airfare,
hotel accommodations and a conference registration to attend the Student
Track component of HACU's 25th Annual Conference taking place Oct.
29-31, 2011 in San Antonio, TX, where the scholarship awards will be
announced. Some additional video entries may also be televised during a
nationwide broadcast of the Hispanic College Quiz, airing during
Hispanic Heritage Month.

Information on contest rules and voting is available at 
www.hispaniccollegequiz.com <http://www.hispaniccollegequiz.com/> .
Public voting will open immediately and continue through Oct. 16. Voting
is limited to one vote per person per day.

 

HACU Member Advisories are a service of the
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.tamuc.edu/pipermail/students/attachments/20110513/3503ebbc/attachment.htm
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 5172 bytes
Desc: image001.png
Url : http://mailman.tamuc.edu/pipermail/students/attachments/20110513/3503ebbc/attachment.png