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Wonderful World of Scholarships
Presented by:-
Ashutosh Burnwal
Founder
Buddy4study.com
All human beings have talents and they grow and
develop fastest in areas where they have
talents.
Scholarships Objectives
• Primarily 2 set of Objectives:- – Supporting students for their education & career
• Finances
• Mentorship
• Entry in reputed colleges such as IISER, IISc, CMI etc
• Others:
– All India pass to access All National Labs & Libraries: KVPY
– Supporting students for their talents & potential. • Science: Ignite, CSIR, KVPY, NTSE etc
• Sports: Indian Oil Sports, Abhinav Bindra Shooting
• Cultural: Music, Dancing, Instrument etc from Ministry of Culture
• Bravery Awards
• Essay, Drawing, Painting, Computers, Photography, Handwriting, Poetry
Benefits of Scholarships
• Increase the appetite within to perform
• Nurture latent and conscious talents
• Boost confidence and chances to win tough
Competitions
– Example: High correlation between
• NTSE Scholar and IIT Qualifier
• NTSE Scholar & KVPY Scholar
• Multiplier effect:
– Scholarship earned at younger age increases
possibility to earn scholarships at later stages.
• A Pride feeling for Student, Family, School and
Society.
Students & Awareness Issues
• Seeker Side issues:
– Insensitive Students/ Parents regarding existence of
many scholarship schemes & benefits.
– Scholarship Myths & Doubts
• Scholarship Provider Side issues:
– Expensive Promotional costs
• Impact Vs Promotion dilemma
– Limitation of technology knowledge & resources
• No Such Platform to support both side Issues.
Success case studies
A torch with an additional
bulb – Md. Alisher, class 12, KSS
College, Lakhisarai, Bihar
Multicolor headphone
wires – Swetleena Zenith, class 11,
Army Public School,
Alahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Ignite 2013 Winners
• Awarded by Dr. APJ Kalam on
his Birthday every year in IIM
Ahmedabad.
• Patents to be filed on the name of
kids for their ideas. (Huge IP
learning)
• A Positive mentoring and
networking for the Student for the
life time.
Puncturing mechanism
for water bottles – Shibajyoti Choudhury, 5, Christ
Church Boys SSS
– Rajashree Choudhary, 6, Christ
Church Girls SSS, Jabalpur,
Madhya Pradesh
School Painting Competition 2013
Sonam Bhutia,
Sikkim
Priyam Das,
Delhi
Winners of year 2013.
Each received an award of Rs 1 Lakh
Kidovators 2013 Winners
Many more…
Practical Challenge of
solving Real life
Problems
Cultural Talent Search Scholarship
Scheme • Tabla player Rohan Prasad
from SPM High School, Pune
• Class 7 Student
• Prize money: Rs 12,600-
13,800 per year till 20 years.
• Organized by Central
Ministry of Culture, GOI
• Children in the age group
of 10 to 14 years
• To outstanding young
children to develop their
talents in various artistic
fields.
• 500 Scholarship every
year
• Introduction in Large
Network of Artists
Indian Oil Sports Scholarships
Ashutosh Padhy
• Class 11, DPS Kalinga
• DOB: 5/11/1996
• Sports: Billiards
P. Michelle Catherina
• Class 11,
• Good Shepherd School, Chennai
• Sports: Chess
Age: 14 to 19 years, State level & National Level, Rs. 5000 p.m. for 3 years
Role of School & Teachers
• To discover a latent talent of students
• The key to developing a latent talent is to build
awareness.
• The key to developing a conscious talent is to
build skill.
• The key to developing a strength is to provide
opportunities
Build Awareness
Latent Talent
Build Skill
Conscious Talent
Provide Opportunities
Strength
Teachers awards
Teaching Excellence
and Achievement
Program
– Six-week program on
new teaching
methodologies in
United States
– Round trip Air fare to
and within US and
many other provisions
Outstanding Science
Teachers Prize
– Honorarium, Citation
National ICT Award for
School Teachers
– 87 Awards, Laptop
The Global Teacher
Prize-Varkey GEMS
Foundation 2014
– Prize- 1 million
Dollars
Application Processes
• Scholarship Application Modes are:
– Student side: (Mostly individual Applications)
• Students can apply by their own.
• Some Competitions ask school endorsements.
– Through Schools: (Mostly exam based Applications)
• Most of the scholarship at school level comes under this
category.
– NTSE, NSTSE, Olympiads, Kidovators, Shell Junior National
Science Scholarship, GREEN Olympiad Examination, Camel
Art Contest 2014, International Olympiad of Science, IGNITE
2014, International Informatics Olympiad, ShOObh Arts
Competition, NASA Exploration Design Challenge
The Missing Link : Buddy4study.com
• Connecting right Opportunities to right
Students/Teachers.
• Buddy4study:
– India’s largest scholarship information portal for
Students.
– Most Popular and trusted by Scholarship providers
– 64000+ Students connected
Buddy4study- Innovative channels
• Website: www.buddy4study.com
• SMS: Scholarship SMS Alerts
• Emails: Weekly Newsletter, Email Alerts
• Website Notice Board on School websites
• Newspaper partnerships: The Hindu, Amar
Ujala, Prabhat Khabar, Haribhumi, Gaon
connection etc
• School Magazines: Career Solutions, Exalt
• Social Media Campaign
www.buddy4study.com/scholarships
Bal Bharti Public School,
Bahadurgarh
School website
www.balbhartihng.com/
How to create your own Scholarship
Notice Board • Integrating Scholarship Notice Board on your
school website as www.balbhartihng.com/
• Notice board updates automatically with all new
scholarships and entrance exams information as
per your school location and classes.
• Integration Process: Simple, Fill the following
online form to generate the integration API and
add the API code on your website.
www.buddy4study.com/generate-notice-
board
SMS Alerts Service (Class 1 to 12)
• SCHOLARSHIP SMS ALERT VOUCHER: (VALIDITY 1
YEAR)
• SMS BUDDY <Class> <12-Digit-PIN> to
9220092200
SCHOLARSHIP & ENTRANCE EXAM
BOOK (CLASS 1 TO 12) Scholarship Literature
– Types of Scholarships
– Myths, Doubts related to scholarships
– Do and Don’ts while filling application
forms.
– FAQs of Scholarships
150+ School Level Scholarship List
– For class LKG to 5: 68 Scholarships
– For class 6 to 10: 119 Scholarships
– For class 11 & 12: 125 Scholarships
60+ School Level Entrance Exam List
– For Class admission in nursery to Class
12, to Engineering, Medical, Fashion,
Design, NDA, International Schools etc
India’s first and most concise Scholarship
Guide Book for School Students
School Membership
Basic Awareness Services
• SMS Alerts
• Email Alerts
• Online Scholarship Notice
board (Integrated with
school website)
• Scholarship Seminars
• Basic School Profile
creation on Buddy4study
Premium Application Services
• All Basic Services
• Customize Profiling of
students for cultural,
sports, sports talent etc
• INSPIRE, LOREAL, CSS,
KVPY, Olympiad
Application Support
• Telephonic support
• SOP writing, preparatory
guidance etc
Thank you
• Media Partners = 45 Lakhs prints per month
Mr. Ashutosh Kr. Burnwal,
•Founder and CEO
•Author of Scholarship Guide-Book,
•Regular Columnist in Newspapers
Mob.: +91 78385 90203
Email: [email protected]
Connect to Buddy4study
• Website: www.buddy4study.com
• Email us at [email protected]
• Contact us:
http://www.buddy4study.com/contact-us
• M: 07838590203