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BC Reads Scholarship

The Eleventh Annual BC Reads! Scholarship Awards

2012-2013 Scholarship Rules and Submission Procedures

Scholarships: BC offers individual scholarships in conjunction with our BC Reads! program. There will be two scholarships of $1,000 each.
One of these is reserved exclusively for submissions from students currently in a developmental English course.
(Winning group submissions will result in the award being divided equally among the group members.)

Eligibility: All BC students enrolled for Winter term 2013, full- or part-time in an academic transfer course or a professional/technical program, are invited to apply.
An individual applicant may apply for a single scholarship and with a single submission only.

Originality: Preference will be given to those entries that draw original, insightful inferences-whether intuitive or analytical-from the text.

Submissions: Students interested in applying must:

(1) Read Deep Economy.

(2) Create a presentation that addresses the themes of the book and the problems and possibilities presented, using the following guidelines:

A wide range of formats will be accepted: students may write an essay, create a software program, design a visual interpretation, perform a dance or musical interpretation, produce a website, for example.
Preference will be given to those projects that either connect with the local community or connect with the student's own experiences, whether in this or another country.

Submissions may deal with any aspects that interest the applicant:

ethnographic-story collections,
essays, memoirs, for example.
cultural
economic
social
political

historical
literary
artistic
technological
multimedia
other

(3) Obtain an endorsement from a faculty member concerning the suitability of a proposed project. Students may gain such an endorsement whether or not they happen to be in a course that is studying the text. The project may result from a course assignment, an extra-credit project, or simply the initiative of a student who wishes to try for an award. Endorsements may be provided by teaching faculty, library faculty, and faculty associated with the various laboratories. Faculty members may not judge their own students.

(4) All entries become the property of the Bellevue College Library Media Center unless prior arrangements are made.

Due Date and Submission Requirements:

The deadline for the scholarship is February 4, 2013. Papers can be submitted as Microsoft Word files and audio-visual projects should be submitted on the appropriate medium.
To be eligible, entries must be accompanied by:
- a faculty endorsement
- a brief statement by the applicant (100 words or less)
  --indicating the nature of the submission (interpretive dance, software program, essay, website, etc.);
  --explaining clearly its connection to Deep Economy;
  --indicating current enrollment in a BC developmental English course (if applicable);
  --indicating permission as to whether or not the submission can be included in a display during Spring quarter. (Students' decisions to grant or not to grant permission for display will not affect judging in any way.)
Submissions should be made to the Reference Desk or Circulation Desk in the Library Media Center, D126.
Winners will be announced on February 15, 2013.

BC Reads! is sponsored by the Library Media Center - Partners: BC Bookstore and Sustainability@BC