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NEXT SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE ACADEMIC PAPER AWARDS: 05.01.06 |
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Note: This scholarship announced below is not administered by or affiliated with NSHSS. Please review
the guidelines carefully. NSHSS academic scholarship recipients will be announced in the April newsletter.
Author Justine Headley has provided the following information to announce to NSHSS members: As a new author deeply committed to education, I am delighted to announce a $5,000 college scholarship essay contest that I'm personally sponsoring. The types of students in NSHSS are exactly the ones I wish to help. After graduating from Stanford and then working at Microsoft, I've become a young adult novelist. It's hard not to be influenced by the incomparable Bill Gates whose philanthropy is both humbling and inspiring. So with every novel that I publish, my goal is to tie it into some kind of community service. For my debut novel, NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (and a few white lies), I've created a $5,000 college scholarship based on an essay contest, which will go into effect on April 1 to coincide with the launch of my book. I wanted to do something to honor my parents, first generation immigrants who sacrificed to send all four of us kids to college. (Stanford wasn't exactly inexpensive when I attended, and college certainly isn't now!) My novel is about a half-Asian, half-white girl searching for identity as she figures out her place in the world--and it's at math camp at Stanford University where things come together for her. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH (and a few white lies) is the lead title for Little, Brown/TimeWarner's spring list, and two National Book Award winners have endorsed the book, one calling it "a work of art." You can check out www.nothingbutthetruthnovel.com for more information about the college scholarship. To learn more about me or my books, please visit: www.justinachenheadley.com. Justina Chen Headley |
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