<p>Since I know how boring writing scholarship essays can get, I figure we should start a list of fun and interesting scholarships that take a different sort of effort and intelligence to get.</p>
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<li>Stuck at Prom: get up to $3,000 for making a prom dress/tux out of duct tape</li>
<li>Tall Clubs International: Scholarship for people over a certain height (5’10" for girls, 6’2" for guys)</li>
<li>(Not sure of name): Some weird scholarship I saw the other day that involved painting images from history on full-sized cow statues</li>
</ul>
<p>Anyone know of any fun ones?</p>
<p>I made a pretty cool poster about the dangers of texting while driving for Triple A, haha.</p>
<p>Not really a scholarship, but a chance to be published and earn a stipend (for those already in college):
[NYTimes-Ed</a> Life](<a href=“http://mstesting.whsites.net/090535_Edlife/index.html?ref=education]NYTimes-Ed”>http://mstesting.whsites.net/090535_Edlife/index.html?ref=education)</p>
<p>Nice! I like the idea of the NY Times one. I’d loved to be published there.</p>
<p>I don’t have any to add right now that I know the names of, but I know there are left-handed scholarships, duck-calling scholarships, name-based scholarships…</p>
<p>^ Too bad there’s not a name-calling contest, I think my kids come up with very creative names for each other, lol!</p>
<p>Check out MTV-U’s site for various contests as well…lots of off-beat things including this:
Get rid of your debt by taking the Indebted Digital Challenge. Come up with a creative, original idea for a video game that addresses the nation’s fiscal crisis and you or your team could receive $10,000 if your concept is chosen as the winner. You will also be credited in the final game and may have the opportunity to work with mtvU to make your idea a reality.</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://media.mtvu.com/contests/]mtvU.com[/url”>http://media.mtvu.com/contests/]mtvU.com[/url</a>]</p>