{"id":8004,"date":"2017-09-01T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2017-09-01T12:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:22:48","slug":"sparkpoint-awarded-125000-for-grove-scholarship-grant-for-2017-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/sparkpoint-awarded-125000-for-grove-scholarship-grant-for-2017-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SparkPoint Awarded $125,000 for Grove Scholarship Grant for 2017-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grove-16-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8005 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grove-16-pic-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"students\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grove-16-pic-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grove-16-pic-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grove-16-pic-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grove-16-pic-1320x1020.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>SparkPoint at Skyline College received a $125,000 grant from The Grove Foundation. This funding supports the scholarships and services provided by SparkPoint through the Grove Scholars Program.\u00a0 Up to 50 Career and Technical Education (CTE) Students from Skyline College will be selected to receive up to $2,000 in the 2017-2018 academic year.\u00a0 Grove Scholarship applications are available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylinecollege.edu\/sparkpoint\">www.skylinecollege.edu\/sparkpoint<\/a> and are due by September 14\u00a0at 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible students will be selected for the program based on three short personal statements that describe who they are, why they have chosen their career path, and why financial literacy is important to them. Academic standing and GPA are not a factor in selection, as long as the student meets the minimum requirement of 2.0 GPA and 75% completion rate.\u00a0 Once being selected for the Grove Scholars Program, students will receive individualized financial coaching and career counseling, as well as a $2,000 scholarship for the semester.<\/p>\n<p>Please forward any questions regarding the Grove Scholarship program to Andrea Doffoney Anyanwu at <a href=\"mailto:anyanwua@smccd.edu.\">anyanwua@smccd.edu<\/a>, or to grovescholar@smccd.edu <a href=\"mailto:grovescholar@smccd.edu.\">grovescholar@smccd.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article by Andrea Doffoney Anyanwu | Photo by Angelita Gajeton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SparkPoint at Skyline College received a $125,000 grant from The Grove Foundation. This funding supports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}