{"id":5155,"date":"2014-03-06T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/college-to-offer-first-scholarship-for-incoming-students\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T19:30:43","slug":"college-to-offer-first-scholarship-for-incoming-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/college-to-offer-first-scholarship-for-incoming-students\/","title":{"rendered":"College to offer FIRST Scholarship for incoming students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The college is offering two $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors who have participated on a FIRST team during their school career.\u00a0 This scholarship may be utilized for any curriculum at Hudson Valley.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for this scholarship, students must be a high school senior and have participated on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/roboticsprograms\/frc\" target=\"_blank\">FIRST Robotics Competition team<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/roboticsprograms\/ftc\" target=\"_blank\">FIRST Tech Challenge<\/a> team. FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics teams design, build and program robots to compete in a 12&#8242; X 12&#8242; field against other robot teams.\u00a0 Teams are required to develop strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles.<\/p>\n<p>A completed FIRST Scholarship application package must be submitted, no later than April 1, to the Hudson Valley Community College Foundation. An application and further information may be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/about\/scholarships\/scholarship-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\">FIRST scholarship page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local school districts who participate in FIRST competitions include: Albany, Amsterdam, Ballston Spa, Burnt Hills\/Ballston Lake, Cambridge, Hudson, Niskayuna, Queensbury, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schuylerville, Shaker, Shenendehowa, South Colonie and Troy.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of any local high school student who is involved in FIRST competitions, please let then know about this great opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:30:43 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The college is offering two $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors who have participated on a FIRST team during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}