Ten outstanding students pursuing careers in the beef industry have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship provided by the CME Group and the National Cattlemen’s Foundation. The CME Group has sponsored this scholarship program for 18 years.
Each scholarship winner wrote a 750-word essay that identified key issues confronting the beef industry, and suggested [...]

The Micron Technology Foundation, Inc., announced todaythe names of thirteen outstanding students who will receive a total of$253,000 over the next four years through the Micron Science andTechnology Scholars program. Virginia high school senior Winston Yanof Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology willreceive a $55,000 scholarship as the top awardee in the Micron [...]

Gov. Jim Risch will make the presentations when the Hispanic Business Association announces its annual scholarship awards on the Statehouse steps at 11 a.m. today. The group will award scholarships to 14 college students and 17 college-bound high-school students.
The college students will receive $1,250, while each high school students will receive $500, said HBA board [...]

The sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance” will once again fill the air as it does every year about this time as the Churchill County High and Lahontan Valley High Classes of 2006 walk for their respective commencement ceremonies.
The CCHS ceremony takes place this evening, June 2, 7 p.m. at the fairgrounds. The LVHS ceremony took [...]

Utah State University is using more than $700,000 in scholarships to aggressively court students from border communities in Idaho for the upcoming school year.
“We really want to send a message that we care, and we want them here,” USU Recruitment Specialist Patrick Svedin said.
Nearly 30 students at Preston High School were awarded more than $450,000 [...]

An Albertson College of Idaho student council will decide during the next two weeks how to give away $30,000 in grant funds.
Thirty Treasure Valley organizations are vying for the Albertson College of Idaho Champions Student Philanthropy Council grant funds, donated by the Seagraves Family Foundation.
Youth organizations, reading programs, a gang-prevention initiative and others have made [...]

An Albertson College of Idaho student council will decide during the next two weeks how to give away $30,000 in grant funds.
Thirty Treasure Valley organizations are vying for the Albertson College of Idaho Champions Student Philanthropy Council grant funds, donated by the Seagraves Family Foundation.
Youth organizations, reading programs, a gang-prevention initiative and others have made [...]

Four Brigham Young University students received Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the next school year.
The recipients include:
• Jacqualine D. Jackson, a physics major from Anchorage, Alaska
• Adam H. Broderick, a chemical engineering major from Danville, Calif.
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Three students at Montana State University in Bozeman are winners in the 2006 Goldwater scholarship program. Each scholarship is worth up to 15-thousand dollars for undergraduate education.
Christoffer Renner of Bozeman, Eric Morschhauser of New York and Brittney Pollard of Idaho are among 320 winners, nationwide. All three M-S-U students are majoring in sciences.
The scholarships are [...]

Online charter schools are giving Idaho parents an option for educating their kids other than home schooling, private school or traditional public schools.
The Idaho Virtual Academy has about 1,800 students in kindergarten through ninth grade, while the Idaho Distance Education Academy has about 1,000 in kindergarten through grade 12.
“We’ve been very happy with it,” Kristin [...]