{"id":27228,"date":"2018-06-20T05:51:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T09:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backtobasicslearning.com\/?p=27228"},"modified":"2019-08-15T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T23:25:11","slug":"2018-gctrader-science-and-technology-college-scholarship-essay-prompt-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/2018-gctrader-science-and-technology-college-scholarship-essay-prompt-released\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 GCTrader science and technology college scholarship essay prompt released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27251\" src=\"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/space-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"GC Trader College Scholarship for science and technology 2018\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/space-600x397.jpg 600w, https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/space-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/space-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Are you a &#8220;techie?&#8221; Dream of a career in space exploration, engineering, or science? <em>This college scholarship is for you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Students can enter the CGTrader Scholarship 2018 Challenge to win scholarships for college education expenses, working toward a career in science and technology. The best submission will be awarded $2,000 and the two runners-up will receive $500 each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to enter:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every year, CGTrader challenges students to dig into technology by writing an essay on how innovative technologies which are transforming our lives every day. To enter, write and submit an original essay (500-1000 words)\u00a0on the topic below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOur life on a spaceship: the future of mankind.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How life will change when people are confined to weightlessness in limited spaces. What devices will they use? How will their minds and languages change when notions taken for granted like \u2018up\u2019 and \u2018down\u2019 or \u2018day\u2019 and \u2018night\u2019 no longer make intuitive sense? How will their environment look, feel, and operate? Will social structures revert to those of our ancestors when people start living in smaller groups, again?<\/p>\n<div class=\"scholarship-info__requirements\">\n<p><b>Requirements:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list scholarship-requirements\">\n<li>500-1000 words<\/li>\n<li>Submit the essay via the online\u00a0<a id=\"5ac0190353ca61354a46d5ed9eeeac33\" class=\"js-scroll-to-form\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cgtrader.com\/scholarships#section-submission\">form<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Submission deadline is 12-14-2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"scholarship-info__eligibility\">\n<p><b>Eligibility:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list scholarship-eligibility\">\n<li>Minimum 2.5 GPA<\/li>\n<li>High school senior, undergraduate or graduate student<\/li>\n<li>Enrolled full-time in an academic institution Jan 1, 2018 \u2013 August 31, 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winners will be announced January 4, 2019, on the\u00a0<a id=\"dca65b074d1307be7760245b7ab16af2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cgtrader.com\/\">CGTrader<\/a>\u00a0blog and notified directly via email provided upon the registration. For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgtrader.com\/scholarships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GCTrader<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Need some essay writing help? Back to Basics in Wilmington, Nationwide offers a college essay writing \/ scholarship writing workshop this summer!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>College Essay Writing Workshop (11th \u2013 12th grades):\u00a0<\/strong>This workshop will help you create a well written, thoughtfully edited, interesting,\u00a0<em>and memorable<\/em>\u00a0essay.<\/p>\n<p>$99 for workshop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June 25 -28, 2018\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mon\/Wed\/Thurs\u00a0\u00a0 10:30 a.m. \u2013 12:00 pm<\/li>\n<li>July 30 \u2013Aug 2, 2018\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mon\/Wed\/Thurs\u00a0\u00a0 10:30 a.m. \u2013 12:00 pm<\/li>\n<li>Aug 6 \u2013 Aug 9, 2018 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mon\/Wed\/Thurs\u00a0\u00a0 10:30 a.m. \u2013 12:00 pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is not in partnership with, or affiliated with, this organization,\u00a0or the scholarship selection committees in any way. This post is simply intended to inform Back to Basics\u2019 clients and readers about relevant opportunities for children, youth, and adults.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students can enter the CGTrader Scholarship  to win a $2000 scholarship for college education expenses, working toward a career in science and technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1323,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","category-college-scholarships-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30522,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228\/revisions\/30522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}