Scholarship Applications Available

If you are a student in Iowa or Illinois, either a graduating senior or an already enrolled college student, you can apply for the Charles Curry SMART Bus scholarship available now.

To qualify for this scholarship, you must be a 2010 graduate of a high school in Iowa or Illinois who are living in Henry, Mercer or Rock Island counties in Illinois or Scott or Muscatine counties in Iowa. However, you may also be a freshman, sophomore or junior at an Illinois or Iowa college who graduated from a high school in one of the above five counties.

You must also plan on majoring in or currently majoring in a Natural Resource curriculum or an Education curriculum and enroll on a full-time basis. And if you are a high school student, you need to be in the upper third of your class. If you area college student, then you must have a 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale.

Each scholarship awarded will be worth $1500 and is renewable.

You should contact their counseling office at your high school for an application orcontact the Moline Foundation at (309)736-3800 or write the Moline Foundation at 817 11th Ave, Moline, Illinois, 61265.

Scholarship applications’ deadline is February 16, 2010.