Bi Lingual Scholarship

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What is your company doing about the influx of Spanish speakers? How are you changing your ways of dong business to adjust to and integrate with the vast number of Hispanic and Latin American people who are calling your communities home.

At PhoneSmart we are working towards a bilingual workforce, where Spanish speakers can use their mother-tongue to their professional advantage.

Here is one thing we are working on :

ATTENTION BILINGUAL STUDENTS!

PHONESMART ANNOUNCES ITS SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUAL

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP CONTEST FOR 2005

PhoneSmart is dedicated to the development of an effective Spanish-English bilingual work force in mid-Missouri. To promote this goal PhoneSmart will provide two $500.00 educational scholarships at mid-Missouri’s higher education institutions

The scholarships are good for tuition and course fees at these fine mid-Missouri schools:

• The University of Missouri-Columbia

• Stephens College

• Columbia College

• Moberly Area Community College

• Westminster College

• William Woods University

• Central Missouri Methodist College

• Lincoln University

One scholarship is for High School age students who are residents of Boone County ages 15 -18 at time of submission. High school applicants will write a 3,000 word essay entitled “How Being a Spanish-English Bilingual Speaker Creates Advantages in Education and Career.”

The second scholarship will be awarded to a student already taking courses at one of the local institutions mentioned above. The applicants must be at least a part-time student taking classes in the spring or fall of 2005. Applicants must be 18 years or older at the time of submission. The higher education applicants will write a 3,500 word essay entitled, “The Challenges and Rewards of Creating a Spanish-English Bilingual Society”.

Both sets of applicants are required to submit two versions of the essay; one in Spanish and one in English. Essays will be judged and the winner chosen by a panel consisting of bilingual education and business leaders from the mid-Missouri community. The author of the winning essay in each category will be awarded the scholarship.

Deadline for submission will be October 31, 2005. The panel will select the winners by December 8, 2005. The awards will be presented at a reception in honor of the winners shortly thereafter.

PhoneSmart – Mid-Missouri’s Spanish-English Bilingual Sales Force

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