GAWP Scholarships and you!

With current state of economy and market conditions, a lot more people are going back to school to get further educations and students are taking longer to graduate. School enrollments are approaching new highs. However, with dwindling funds, the school endowments are also dropping fast. Research grants have been cut back and a very few students are getting assistantships or funding.

In such tough times, students' should seek various innovative ways to get the funding for their education.
One such way is to get a 'scholarship'. Some of the scholarships may not be significant in amount, but in a tough economic drought, every drop counts!

GAWP offers a variety of scholarships to full time students. A list of available scholarships is provided below:

• GAWP’s Undergraduate Scholarship

• GAWP’s Frontline Undergraduate Scholarship

• GAWP’s Graduate Scholarship

• GAWP’s H2Opportunity Undergraduate Scholarship

• William J. Green Hr. Scholarship Fund

• Philip R. Karr, III Scholarship Fund

•Scholarships from Gerogia Section of AWWA (two).

A lot of these scholarships have potential for continuation/extension for a second year.

For scholarship information and eligibility criteria

http://www.gawp.org/pdf/EligibilityRequirements-Scholarships2009.pdf

For Scholarship application forms

http://www.gawp.org/pdf/Application-Scholarships2009.pdf

Deadline for submitting applications is February 28th 2009.

So, act soon and take your best shot!!
Good luck!