$10,000 blogging scholarship for a lucky student

The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation is offering their 2nd annual blogging scholarship. Some details from CollegeScholarships.org (run by Daniel Kovach):

Scholarship Requirements:

• Your blog must contain unique and interesting information about you and/or things you are passionate about. No spam bloggers please!!!
• U.S. citizen or permanent resident;
• Currently attending full-time in post-secondary education in the United States; and
• If you win, you must be willing to allow us to list your name and blog on this page. We want to be able to say we knew you before you became a well educated, rich, and famous blogging legend.

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: Midnight PST on Oct. 6th
• 10 Finalists Announced and Public Voting Begings: 9am EST on Oct. 8th
• Public Voting Ends and Winner Declared: Midnight PST on Oct. 28th

Hat tip: The Volokh Conspiracy

The Sept. 4 press release also mentions "maintain a 3.0 GPA". To get the word out, Shannon Prue, Scholarship Coordinator, has emailed several bloggers.

Last year's winners:

• $5,000 Grand Prize: Stephen Yellin, Drew University
• $1,000 Runner Up: Paul Stamatiou, Georgia Tech (who suggests that future winners are chosen by a panel rather than as a popularity contest)
• $1,000 Runner Up: Shelley Batts, University of Michigan

The Foundation lists several 2 Web-related college scholarships granted earlier this year:

• $5,000 Web Design contest to create a WordPress template for the NewScholarships.org blog. The (extended) deadline was August 18, 2007. The winner: Anand Sharma from UCLA.
• $2,000 for Political Blogging. The deadline was February 4, 2007. The winner: Jerid Kurtz (Democrat). Finalists: Denis Ambrose Jr. (Republican) and Garrett P. O'Hara (Independent).

(Note: the Foundation's page should link to these blogs! I had to search a bit to find them.)

Coming later this year (and not directly related to blogging or the Web):

• $1,000 for Library and Information Science. Last year's winner: James Rogers, University of Denver.
• $1,000 for a Minority Student. Last year's winner: Tanya Rice, University of Arizona.
• $1,000 for a Female Student. Last year's winner: Sarah Moran, Chesapeake College

The deadline for each: December 1, 2007.