DigiPen and Womengamers.com Announce Joint Scholarship

Author: by Beth A.

DigiPen Institute of Technology and Womengamers.com have announced that they will jointly be offering a scholarship for freshmen women who attend the game programming school in September 2007. Womengamers.com seeks to provide a dynamic online gaming site that is female-friendly and caters to the interests and needs of different types of woman gamer as well as serve sas a platform to both disseminate information about games from an informed, socially-conscious, female-friendly perspective. Partnering with DigiPen to offer scholarships to future female game developers runs in line with their mission in game industry presence. There will be five separate $2000.00 scholarships given to five U.S. citizen female students who obtain all of the following qualifications: 1. Must be female. 2. All applicants must meet the standard admission requirements for the program they are applying for at DigiPen Institute Of Technology. 3. Must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or greater in your most recent educational history. 4. Must be a student entering any of DigiPen Institute Of Technology’s full time degree programs. 5. Must be a US citizen or permanent resident. 6. Must be a new incoming student for the Fall 2007-08 academic year. The application deadline for this scholarship is May 1st, 2007. To download the application form or for more information, visit the DigiPen Institute Of Technology website.