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Hi there scholarship seekers! I am sure everyone is busy studying for finals, but we want you to you to know that there are still scholarship deadlines looming. If you have some free time in the next few weeks, you might want to check out the following awards we have pulled together for you.

The first scholarship we want to tell you about comes from the Monterey County Film Commission. This award provides financial help and encouragement to the next generation of filmmakers. If you are a student of film and a resident of Monterey County, or if you are currently enrolled in a community college or university in the county, then this scholarship might be for you!

The second scholarship we have for you is the Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Foundation Scholarship. This scholarship is geared towards low-income women with children. Five women will be awarded this scholarship of $2,000 in 2011. The application period runs from May 15th – July 15th.

The final scholarship for today is the Union Plus Scholarship. This scholarship is for union members or children of union members. Undergraduate and graduate students can apply for a chance to win a scholarship ranging from $500 – $4,000.

That is all we have for today. Don’t forget that the winners of the April scholarship drawings will be announced on Monday! Good luck!

If you do not already follow ScholarshipPoints (@WinScholarships) on Twitter, you are definitely missing out! Here are a few reasons why you should join over 28,000 other ScholarshipPoints members on Twitter:

1: Keep up with the latest ScholarshipPoints news – Twitter is the place where you will find out about new winners, new scholarship offers, new blog posts and more!

2: Get access to secret bonus codes – We post secret bonus codes on twitter at least once a week. When you find these codes you can bring them back to ScholarshipPoints to redeem for additional entries into the monthly $1,000 and quarterly $10,000 scholarship drawings.

3: Find out when new scholarship points earning opportunities become available – We are always sharing our new and most popular point earning opportunities with our followers. Check out our feed for activities you might not have completed!

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5: Find other great offers and discounts that are 100% just for fun – We are not all business! Occasionally we share special discounts, retail sales and cool brands promotions with our followers. Take a look to find out what the latest offers are!

But wait, there is more! The best part is that when you follow us on Twitter, your ScholarshipPoints account will automatically be credited with 25 scholarship points!

The people over at CollegeWeekLive have a new event coming up next week! The are holding an online college fair specifically for science, technology, engineering and math majors (STEM majors). During CollegeWeekLive STEM Day, prospective students can attend virtual booths for colleges offering STEM majors, view live presentations on science, technology, engineering and math specific topics, and ask questions in real time.

The best part is they are giving away a Pi scholarship! The attendee that submits the most creative use of Pi with receive a scholarship worth $3,141.59! The event is next Tuesday, April 26th so do not delay!  When you register for STEM Day today your scholarship points account will automatically be credited with 25 scholarship points.

Learn more and register now!

Surprise! We’re back a week early to bring you even more scholarship opportunities! I’m also super excited to tell you that starting today, we’ll be bringing you more scholarship alerts EVERY WEEK!

To start things off, I’d like to mention Glamour‘s Top 10 College Women Competition. This scholarship program will give $20,000 to one grand prize winner, and $3,000 to each of nine runners-up. This competition is open women (sorry guys!) who will be full-time college juniors for the 2011-2012 academic year. PLUS, all winners will receive a trip to NYC and be featured in a future issue of Glamour Magazine. Early application deadline is July 15, 2011.

Next, BigSun Athletics is offering scholarships to student athletes, regardless of sport or gender and is open to all college students or high school seniors. Each award is $500 and the number of awards vary each year. To enter, submit an essay responding to the question “what are your most important extracurricular or community activities? What have you done to contribute to them?” Deadline to apply is June 23, 2011.

Lastly, this one is for all of you adult learners out there. The Adult Student in Scholastic Transition or ASIST scholarship is offering 12, $2,500 scholarships. Students must apply at your local chapter, at which point, if selected, you will go on to the corporate competition. Deadlines vary depending on your local chapter, so visit their website for more information!

As usual, if there’s any category you’d like to see more of, post a comment. Check back NEXT week for more new scholarship updates!

Hello again everyone, I hope you are all surviving this hectic home stretch of the school year. So take a break from studying and check out these new scholarships I’ve found for you!

Doinggood.com has just given away $40,000 to three students for their remarkable efforts in helping others. Doing good rewards students for exactly that: doing good. While the current entry period is closed, students can sign up to be notified of when it will open again next year.

Thanks USA is another scholarship programs that gives back to those who serve, this time, their country. Thanks USA scholarship opportunities are open to either dependent children or spouses of military personnel, who are obtaining a degree below the Master’s level. Deadline to apply is May 15, 2011

The DEMO College Alpha Program will provide 10 full scholarships to students or groups that have meaningful new technologies that are worth presenting at the Fall 2011 DEMO event. Ideally, students will have created a product that solves a problem, makes a market impact, and has a business plan, all to launch on the DEMO stage this fall.

I know everyone is very busy as another year begins to wind down, but hopefully these scholarships can both award you for the good work that you do and remind you to keep it up! Don’t forget to check back in two weeks for more scholarship updates! In the meantime, you can also check out the other scholarships added daily to StudentScholarshipSearch.com.

In 2009 a law was passed that prevents adults under the age of 21 from being approved for a credit card without a cosigner. Before this law, many college students depended on credit cards to shop online, book travel, and buy textbooks.  Luckily, there is now a new credit card alternative for college students. The NetSpend Student All-Access Prepaid MasterCard has all of the convenience of a credit card without the danger of going into debt.

With the Student All-Access card there are no credit checks, debt, interest charges or overdraft fees. It is simply a card that you pre-load money onto and spend as you would like. With the Student All-Access card you will gain access to exclusive student discounts and have the opportunity to customize your card with a photo of your own!

When you order and activate a card, you can load money onto it in several convenient ways: bank transfers; direct deposit of a payroll check; or by bringing cash to any of the more than 100,000 NetSpend Reload Network locations across the U.S. It is a great way to maintain a budget and make sure that you don’t overspend.

When you register for a NetSpend Student All-Access Prepaid MasterCard your scholarship points account will automatically be credited with 25 scholarship points and you will be entered for a chance to have $500 deposited on your card.

Learn More About Student All-Access

In 2009, three Harvard undergrads saw the need to fill a hole in the media marketplace for information that responded directly to the needs of college women. They wanted a place where female students could go to get both individualized campus-by-campus content and articles about national hot campus topics. Later that year, they launched Her Campus, an online magazine exclusively for college women.

Her Campus serves as a hub for everything college women need to know, and a launching point for the nation’s top college journalists. Fresh content is posted daily on style, health, love, life and career, and supplemented with campus-specific content produced by a team of students at 120+ colleges around the country. They have even teamed up with brands like New Balance, Juicy Couture, LOFT, Pinkberry and rent the Runway to bring Her Campus visitors special offers and deals.

How do you know you are getting authentic content, tips and advice when you visit Her Campus? HerCampus writers have been offered jobs at Seventeen, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar and Readers Digest. Plus, they are, or have recently been college students just like you. These women really know what they are talking about! The site has also been recognized by The New York Times, Yahoo Finance, CNN Money, and ABC News Now among others.

Head over to Her Campus today to catch up on latest the latest fashion trends, read great health tips, find out what is going on around your campus, or to sign-up for their weekly newsletter. You can also Like Her Campus on Facebook to stay up-to-date with everything they have to offer.

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Okay people… It has been three business days since we announced the March scholarship winners and it turns out that quite a few of the winners did not claim their scholarships. This means that a total of six runners-up have been posted on the winners page. We don’t want anyone else to miss their change of winning free money for college, so click here now to see if you are a winner.

A big congratulations to Elizabeth Anderson and Tina Grove who are the two winners who have confirmed so far! You can check out their bios and pictures when you head over  to the winners page!

View the Scholarship Winners