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5 Scholarships for Students in Maine

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

The northern and easternmost state in the contiguous “lower forty-eight” lies on a craggy outcropping of coastline, directly bordering Canada and the icy waters of the North Atlantic. The state of Maine is known for many reasons, nearly all of them complimentary. Nicknamed “The Pine Tree State,” Maine is renowned for its natural beauty, with …

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5 Poetry Scholarships

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

Every student experiences the feeling at least once, staring into the stucco walls of a way-too-brightly lit classroom. They count down the minutes until the clock strikes three P.M., yearning to escape the burden of learning for the day. In 1888, the great poet William Wordsworth encapsulated the feeling of the school bell ringing in …

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Scholarships for Students in Oregon

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from St. Louis to explore the vast western portion of the Louisiana Purchase, neither of them knew exactly what they were getting into. Their objective was simply to map the territory and find a route leading to the Pacific Ocean, but their journey crossing to the West …

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6 Scholarships for Students in Colorado

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

In 1972, a musician born Henry John Deutschendorf released a popular song celebrating the sublime peaks of his favorite state. It took him nine months to write and honored the inspirational nature of the mountains that dotted his homeland. The narrator tells the story of a man moving to a midwestern state, scaling its mountains, …

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5 Scholarships for Students in Alaska

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

William Shatner famously would begin every episode of the classic sci-fi series Star Trek with the same monologue, opening with, “Space. The final frontier…” Not so fast, Captain Kirk. Seventeen years before Shatner first donned his Starfleet-issue golden sweater, another land was already called the “Last Frontier:” The state of Alaska, admitted into the union …

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6 Scholarships for Students in California

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

In 1849, James W. Marshall, a supervisor working on the construction of a sawmill outside of Sacramento, was examining his workers’ excavation of a riverbed the day before when he noticed them. Shiny shards of some glinting material, scattered along the river. Gold. In an instant, ankle-deep in the mud along the banks of a …

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6 Scholarships for Students in Utah

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

The great state of Utah has a simple motto, abstaining from the flowery Latin language of states like Michigan (“Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice,” that is, “if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you,”) and the ironclad absolutes of the New Hampshires of the world (“Live free or die.”). No, the motto of Utah …

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6 Scholarships for Students in Nebraska

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

On Saturdays in the fall, 90,000 screaming football fans pack the Memorial Stadium in downtown Lincoln, decked out from head to toe in red, cheering on their Nebraska Huskers. The stadium, for that one day, is the third-largest city in Nebraska, more populous than the city of Bellevue. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is renowned nationally …

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6 Scholarships for Students In Oklahoma

By Morgan StaubLast updated on December 22, 2022

A culture of competition has existed in Oklahoma since, at least, the late nineteenth century. After President Grover Cleveland issued a proclamation stating that the Oklahoman lands were available for cultivation and settlement, settlers rushed in from all over the map to see who could get there “sooner.” The state lovingly adopted the “sooner” moniker, …