The Davidson Fellows Scholarship awards $50,000, $25,000 and $10,000 scholarships to extraordinary young people, 18 and under, who have completed a significant piece of work.
Application categories are Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Literature, Music, Philosophy and Outside the Box.
WHEN TO SUBMIT: By February 12, 2020.
WHO CAN SUBMIT: Anyone 18 or younger as of October 1, 2020.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
Literature Requirements:
- A 65–75 page portfolio containing three of the four following genres:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Drama/Screenplay
- A literacy narrative (no page limit)
- Two nominators
- Two individuals who are familiar with your work must each submit a Davidson Fellows Nominating Form. Family members/relatives may not serve as nominators.
- Forms must be submitted directly by the nominator to the Davidson Institute on or before the submission deadline of February 12,2020, 11:59p.m. Pacific Time. Both nominators are required. Applications with missing Nominating Forms as of the February 12, 2020 deadline will be disqualified.
- Process essay
- Part One: Please answer the following questions:
- What inspired you to pursue this work?
- How much time (hours/days/months) did it take you to complete this work?
- How did you organize the work that went into doing it?
- What difficulties did you encounter and how did you handle them?
- Part Two: Please answer the following questions:
- Where was the work completed?
- Who supervised your work? (Give names, titles, addresses, e-mail, and phone numbers)
- What help have you received in doing this work?
- List who helped you and what assistance he/she provided. (Please include individuals who offered equipment, ideas, critiques, materials, methodology, etc.)
- Part One: Please answer the following questions:
- Video describing work
- Submit a maximum 10-minute, home-production quality video recording. You are encouraged to speak “from the heart” in your video, rather than reading directly from a script. The video is a chance to talk about a topic not addressed in the essays or to expand upon a point the essays touched on only briefly.
- Suggestions for the structure of the video:
- In the first few minutes, you could briefly describe your submission summarizing why it was done, its significance, its benefit to society/social relevance and other details of your accomplishment.
- Continue by describing how you became interested in this project, how it evolved and how working on it has helped you develop your talents.
- Next, describe how your submission fits into the larger context of the field of study and describe the specific ideas/people/theories that influenced your work.
- Conclude your video with a brief description on how you think your work/talent could be applied/highlighted.