Scholarships, Summer Sessions, Special Workshops

DECA's Competitive Events Program offers cash awards to students who win at the international level of competition. Since you can do events in several areas of entrepreneurship, this is a great way to experience entrepreneurship as you earn cash for future entrepreneurship study.

The NFIB Young Entrepreneur Foundation awards a $10,000 scholarship to the top applicant, four $5,000 scholarships to finalists and at least 300 $1,000 NFIB Free Enterprise Scholars Awards nationwide. http://www.nfib.com/page/educationFoundation

The National FFA Organization's Agri-Entrepreneurship Awards honor FFA members who have recognized a market opportunity that was overlooked by others and conceived a plan to pursue that opportunity.  Agri-Entrepreneurship - Focuses on entrepreneurship - the values, requirements and challenges of owning your business. www.ffa.org/programs/index.html

Through separate grants from the Pepsi foundation and Marriott International, minority students are eligible for several scholarships, renewable with a qualifying GPA. For more information see www.franchise.org/edufound/schoef.asp

You should check with the colleges you are considering to see what they offer for scholarships. Here is a sampling of the many scholarships available: