{"id":8713,"date":"2018-01-18T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2018-01-18T16:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:06:02","slug":"sparkpoint-accepting-applications-for-spring-2018-grove-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/sparkpoint-accepting-applications-for-spring-2018-grove-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"SparkPoint Accepting Applications for Spring 2018 Grove Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Grove-wall-pic-1-10-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8706 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Grove-wall-pic-1-10-18-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"grove scholars\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Grove-wall-pic-1-10-18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Grove-wall-pic-1-10-18-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Grove-wall-pic-1-10-18-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Grove-wall-pic-1-10-18-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>SparkPoint at Skyline College is currently accepting scholarship applications for 25 Career and Technical Education (CTE) students the Spring 2018 cohort.\u00a0 Grove Scholarship applications are available online at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylinecollege.edu\/sparkpoint\">Sparkpoint website<\/a> and are due by February 1<sup>st<\/sup> at 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>If you are interested in applying for the Grove Scholars Program or if you have any questions please visit SparkPoint at Skyline College in Bldg. 1, Room 1-214, call us at 650-738-7035, or email us at <a href=\"mailto:grovescholar@smccd.edu.\">grovescholar@smccd.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article by Chad Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SparkPoint at Skyline College is currently accepting scholarship applications for 25 Career and Technical Education<\/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\/8713"}],"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=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}