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Applications Open for the AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship Program

It’s early still but that doesn’t mean we can’t think ahead. And thinking ahead to the 2013-2014 academic year is what we’re going to do.

If you’re a journalism undergrad or grad student, the AP-Google Scholarship is offering six awards for $20,000 each. The deadline to apply isn’t until February 2013 but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a head start know.

This is especially true because much of the application require online portfolios and digital work so you have nine months to clean up, organize and put your best foot forward.

Via ONA:

The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship Program fosters new journalism skills in undergraduate and graduate students developing projects at the intersection of journalism and technology.

The program is targeted to individual students creating innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism. A key goal is to promote geographic, gender and ethnic diversity, with an emphasis on rural and urban areas.

Have you created original journalistic content with computer science elements? Are you thinking up new ways to tell a story with technology? Are you a “techie” who knows how to construct a journalistic story through multimedia? We’re looking for students pursuing studies at the crossroads of journalism, computer sciences and new media. If you’re on the cutting edge of digital media beyond the classroom, this scholarship is for you!

Application materials and requirements are available at the Online News Association.

To get a sense of what they might be looking for, take a look at this year’s winners.

As Google wrote on its blog when the winners were announced:

These students have big plans that range from producing hyperlocal data-driven stories, to developing open-source apps that allow for democratic news gathering and greater collaboration, to data visualization for current events and entertainment, to producing political news games and teaching journalists how to code.

First Amendment Tweets

Via the Knight Foundation:

Today, students ages 14 to 22 who tweet creatively about the First Amendment – and use the hashtag #FreeToTweet – are eligible for a $5,000 scholarship.

The tweet-a-thon is a celebration of the 220th birthday of the Bill of Rights. 

Learn more at FreeToTweet.org.

AP, Google Team Up on Scholarship Award

If you’re an undergraduate or graduate student with a focus on journalism, innovation and technology, run this way.

Via the Online News Association:

The Associated Press and Google announce a new national scholarship program intended to foster digital and new media skills in student journalists. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, will administer the program.

The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media. The program is targeted to individual students creating innovative projects that further the ideals of digital journalism. A key goal is to promote geographic, gender and ethnic diversity, with an emphasis on rural and urban areas.

Applications are now open for the 2012-2013 academic year. Deadline is this January. But why wait until then when you can do it now.

Read up on how Google thinks about the scholarship on the Google Blog.