For those of you who did not know, I have been considering continuing my education by pursuing either the digital design diploma or one of the graphic design degrees from The Art Institute Online. However, the cost of a college education nowadays is pretty steep and having paid off all of the student loans for my previous college studies, I am loathe to take on an additional set of loans to pay for this expense.
The answer appears to have fallen in my lap in the form of a competition for a $10,000 scholarship being run by The Art Institute Online. The theme of the competition is Live Your Creative Passion. In order to enter, I had to come up with a graphic and write a short essay best representing this theme.
The first round of the competition is public voting via their website. The top 10% or 100 entries from this round will proceed to the second (and final) round where a panel of judges will comb through the entries and choose two winners.
Please help me by casting your vote for my entry here -> http://scholarship.aionline.edu/entry.aspx?id=929. Unfortunately, they butchered my graphic by cutting down the size and reducing the quality, but the concept is still intact.
One vote per email address is allowed, so if you have multiple email addresses, I would greatly appreciate as many votes as you can muster. If there is anyone that I may have missed on this list or who might be willing to help out by casting a vote for me, please forward on this information.
Few votes given already… 8)
Voted!! Good luck! 🙂
We voted, too:) Allie loves the graphics, she felt so grown up “voting” for you. Good Luck!!
another half-dozen or so posted. Once I know if I get any kind of “thank you for voting” messages, I can add lots more from family members. 🙂
Voted for you, 5 times! 🙂
voted. Good luck.
4 votes from us – good luck!
8 votes from us – the benefit of still having NZ email addresses 🙂
A half-dozen from me 🙂
Another 4 from me! 😉 (((Jenna)))
Voted! Good luck!
Voted! Lots of luck! 🙂
A bunch from me already! And I’ll forward it to some friends!
Voted! Good luck!
I just started getting “thank you for voting” replies. That’s going to cut down the number of additional votes I can add – most of my family will refuse when they know they’re going to get a response. Bummer. I’ll get as many more as I can manage, though.
Voted, good luck
I voted! Good luck!
I voted with a whole bunch of email addresses — all valid ones. I figured they’d at least send confirmation emails to me because what would stop people from making up more email addresses otherwise? Besides good morals, of course. But no confirmation emails … Sort of a strange way to run the first part of this competition in my opinion, but anyway, I’m going with my morals, and I still voted with every email address I had. Hope you do well — and if you don’t get the scholarship, remember that something else is supposed to happen instead, that’s all.