Scholarships abound for local students

Completed applications for the Defense Commissary Agency's Scholarships for Military Children Program must be in the store - either by hand or mail - by close of business Wednesday.
Applications are available in commissaries worldwide or online through a link at commissaries.com and directly at militaryscholar.org, where they can be filled out on the computer and printed, or printed and filled out by hand.
Applicants should make sure they check all materials carefully, fill out the 2009 application carefully and remember to sign it.
DeCA officials recommend students who do not hand-deliver their applications use a delivery method that supplies a return receipt. Only dependent, unmarried children (under age 23) of active-duty, Reserve, Guard and retired military members; survivors of servicemembers who died while on active duty; or survivors of people who died while receiving retired pay from the military may apply.
Applicants must be planning to attend, or already be attending, an accredited college or university full time in fall 2009, or be enrolled in a program of studies designed to transfer directly into a four-year program.

Military family scholarships
Are you a spouse or dependent thinking about continuing your education? Park University is offering military family scholarships during the 2009-10 academic years. Prospective students or newly enrolled students are eligible. Those eligible are non-military spouses and dependents of active-duty military assigned, attached or living in the area.
The scholarship is for a year and is for up to 15 credit hours.
Applications must be submitted by March 6.
More information is available by calling the Belvoir office, 703-781-8456 or from the Web site, park.edu/virginia.

After a hiatus, Belvoir Thrift Shop's scholarship program is once again active. Applications are available at the Thrift Shop, 10002 Caples Road, at the corner of Caples and 21st Street, a block east of the Vet Clinic) during regular business hours. Thrift Shop hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and the first and third Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A total of five, $1,000 scholarships will be awarded in the following categories:
Academic Achievement Award, for graduating high school seniors; Undergraduate Achievement Award, for a full-time undergraduate student; and the Continuing Educations Scholarship, for a military spouse pursuing a first bachelor's degree or attending trade or technical school. A 3.0 grade point average is required.
Applicants must be affiliated with Fort Belvoir: sponsor or parents must live, work, be assigned to or deployed from Fort Belvoir or, the applicant or sponsor must have completed 60 hours of verifiable volunteer service on the installation during 2008.
Completed applications must be at the Thrift Shop, not postmarked, by 2 p.m. March 12.
Information is available from Jackie Baer, 703-360-3160 ext. 11 during the shop's business hours.
2009 Scholarship
National Guard Bureau Officers' Wives' Club has academic and need-assessed scholarships this year.
Applicants must be either a 2008-2009 high school senior or enrolled as a full-time college student.
The applicant must be a dependent (child or spouse) of a Soldier or civilian in one of the following categories:
Army or Air National Guard assigned to the NGB;
Active Army or Air Force personnel assigned to the NGB;
Retired from the T-10 AGR program with NGB;
Family of deceased personnel whose previous assignment was NGB;
Civilian personnel, GS only, working full-time for NGB.
Applications are not accepted from applicants who have previously received scholarship awards from the NGBOWC.
The submission deadline is March 31.
More information and applications, are available through Angela Fontenot, NGBOWC Scholarship Chairman, afontenot1991@yahoo.com,
225-933-5592.