Each year, the SaddleBrooke Community Outreach (SBCO) Scholarship Committee receives applications for scholarships from high school seniors located throughout the Copper Corridor in Arizona. After the applications are received, Committee Members evaluate each student’s financial circumstances, high school grades and GPA, activities, essays about personal and professional goals and letters of recommendation. Committee Members then conduct in-person interviews and use all of these criteria to select scholarship recipients. This year, the Committee has selected 41 deserving students to be awarded undergraduate scholarships. Thirty of the scholarships are for four-year degree programs; 11 are for two-year degree programs and vocational schools.
Scholarships are also being awarded to graduate students accepted into programs. These graduate scholarships are financed from the earnings from the SBCO Scholarship Endowment Fund and are awarded as one-time grants. This year, these grants are for $5,000 each to two deserving students. The Committee has also chosen two additional graduate students to receive scholarships of $3,600 each that will be funded from the Scholarship budget.
Currently, students attending two-year colleges receive $1,800 per year, while those attending four-year institutions receive $3,600 per year. Each student needs to earn a minimum 2.0 GPA each semester, while registered as a full-time student, completing a minimum of 12 credit hours per semester. The scholarship continues until the two or four-year degree is completed. Often these students have other scholarships or grants that cover their tuition and the SBCO scholarship assists them with room and board and other school related expenses so that they get the maximum benefit from their scholarships. When a student pursuing a two-year degree completes the required coursework, he/she may pursue additional funding to complete the remaining two years of a four-year degree program.
Members of the Committee are assigned to be liaisons to the scholarship recipients, where they serve as advocates, sounding boards and advisors as students tackle the myriad challenges involved in completing a post-high school degree.
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