Health-Care Education Scholarship Program
As part of its educational mission, NPEF began the Health-Care Education Scholarship Program in 2005 for deserving high school seniors, who are pursuing full-time health-care related studies. The following year, the scholarship program was expanded to include previous NPEF scholarship winners continuing in full-time health-care studies, the Continuing Scholar Scholarship Program.
Since the program’s inaugural year, sixty-four Health-Care Education and Continuing Scholar Scholarships, totaling $60,500, have been awarded for post high school health-care studies.
2012-2013 Health-Care Education and Continuing Scholar Scholarship application materials and teacher and faculty recommendation forms are available by clicking the appropriate link below. High school seniors applying for the Health-Care Education Scholarship must have a minimum unweighted GPA of 3.8 and a minimum ACT of 28.
Students must be residents of the Foundation's service area, which extends approximately 300 miles each direction from Rapid City, SD, and includes all of South Dakota, northwest Nebraska, northeast Wyoming, southeast Montana, and southwest North Dakota. (See www.npef.org/about-us.asp.)
Scholarships are awarded based on overall academic merit, extracurricular and health-care related activities, leadership, letters of recommendation, and planned health-care or eye-related course of study. All health-care related courses of study are considered, but preference is given to those focusing on eye-related fields such as Ophthalmology, Optometry, Optician, or Ophthalmology/Optometry Technician.
High school student and continuing scholar scholarship applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2012.
For more information, contact the Northern Plains Eye Foundation at (605) 716-6733.
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