Wonderful World of Scholarships

Presented by:-

Ashutosh Burnwal

Founder

Buddy4study.com

All human beings have talents and they grow and

develop fastest in areas where they have

talents.

Scholarships Objectives

• Primarily 2 set of Objectives:- – Supporting students for their education & career

• Finances

• Mentorship

• Entry in reputed colleges such as IISER, IISc, CMI etc

• Others:

– All India pass to access All National Labs & Libraries: KVPY

– Supporting students for their talents & potential. • Science: Ignite, CSIR, KVPY, NTSE etc

• Sports: Indian Oil Sports, Abhinav Bindra Shooting

• Cultural: Music, Dancing, Instrument etc from Ministry of Culture

• Bravery Awards

• Essay, Drawing, Painting, Computers, Photography, Handwriting, Poetry

Benefits of Scholarships

• Increase the appetite within to perform

• Nurture latent and conscious talents

• Boost confidence and chances to win tough

Competitions

– Example: High correlation between

• NTSE Scholar and IIT Qualifier

• NTSE Scholar & KVPY Scholar

• Multiplier effect:

– Scholarship earned at younger age increases

possibility to earn scholarships at later stages.

• A Pride feeling for Student, Family, School and

Society.

Students & Awareness Issues

• Seeker Side issues:

– Insensitive Students/ Parents regarding existence of

many scholarship schemes & benefits.

– Scholarship Myths & Doubts

• Scholarship Provider Side issues:

– Expensive Promotional costs

• Impact Vs Promotion dilemma

– Limitation of technology knowledge & resources

• No Such Platform to support both side Issues.

Success case studies

A torch with an additional

bulb – Md. Alisher, class 12, KSS

College, Lakhisarai, Bihar

Multicolor headphone

wires – Swetleena Zenith, class 11,

Army Public School,

Alahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Ignite 2013 Winners

• Awarded by Dr. APJ Kalam on

his Birthday every year in IIM

Ahmedabad.

• Patents to be filed on the name of

kids for their ideas. (Huge IP

learning)

• A Positive mentoring and

networking for the Student for the

life time.

Puncturing mechanism

for water bottles – Shibajyoti Choudhury, 5, Christ

Church Boys SSS

– Rajashree Choudhary, 6, Christ

Church Girls SSS, Jabalpur,

Madhya Pradesh

School Painting Competition 2013

Sonam Bhutia,

Sikkim

Priyam Das,

Delhi

Winners of year 2013.

Each received an award of Rs 1 Lakh

Kidovators 2013 Winners

Many more…

Practical Challenge of

solving Real life

Problems

Cultural Talent Search Scholarship

Scheme • Tabla player Rohan Prasad

from SPM High School, Pune

• Class 7 Student

• Prize money: Rs 12,600-

13,800 per year till 20 years.

• Organized by Central

Ministry of Culture, GOI

• Children in the age group

of 10 to 14 years

• To outstanding young

children to develop their

talents in various artistic

fields.

• 500 Scholarship every

year

• Introduction in Large

Network of Artists

Indian Oil Sports Scholarships

Ashutosh Padhy

• Class 11, DPS Kalinga

• DOB: 5/11/1996

• Sports: Billiards

P. Michelle Catherina

• Class 11,

• Good Shepherd School, Chennai

• Sports: Chess

Age: 14 to 19 years, State level & National Level, Rs. 5000 p.m. for 3 years

Role of School & Teachers

• To discover a latent talent of students

• The key to developing a latent talent is to build

awareness.

• The key to developing a conscious talent is to

build skill.

• The key to developing a strength is to provide

opportunities

Build Awareness

Latent Talent

Build Skill

Conscious Talent

Provide Opportunities

Strength

Teachers awards

Teaching Excellence

and Achievement

Program

– Six-week program on

new teaching

methodologies in

United States

– Round trip Air fare to

and within US and

many other provisions

Outstanding Science

Teachers Prize

– Honorarium, Citation

National ICT Award for

School Teachers

– 87 Awards, Laptop

The Global Teacher

Prize-Varkey GEMS

Foundation 2014

– Prize- 1 million

Dollars

Application Processes

• Scholarship Application Modes are:

– Student side: (Mostly individual Applications)

• Students can apply by their own.

• Some Competitions ask school endorsements.

– Through Schools: (Mostly exam based Applications)

• Most of the scholarship at school level comes under this

category.

– NTSE, NSTSE, Olympiads, Kidovators, Shell Junior National

Science Scholarship, GREEN Olympiad Examination, Camel

Art Contest 2014, International Olympiad of Science, IGNITE

2014, International Informatics Olympiad, ShOObh Arts

Competition, NASA Exploration Design Challenge

The Missing Link : Buddy4study.com

• Connecting right Opportunities to right

Students/Teachers.

• Buddy4study:

– India’s largest scholarship information portal for

Students.

– Most Popular and trusted by Scholarship providers

– 64000+ Students connected

Buddy4study- Innovative channels

• Website: www.buddy4study.com

• SMS: Scholarship SMS Alerts

• Emails: Weekly Newsletter, Email Alerts

• Website Notice Board on School websites

• Newspaper partnerships: The Hindu, Amar

Ujala, Prabhat Khabar, Haribhumi, Gaon

connection etc

• School Magazines: Career Solutions, Exalt

• Social Media Campaign

www.buddy4study.com/scholarships

Bal Bharti Public School,

Bahadurgarh

School website

www.balbhartihng.com/

How to create your own Scholarship

Notice Board • Integrating Scholarship Notice Board on your

school website as www.balbhartihng.com/

• Notice board updates automatically with all new

scholarships and entrance exams information as

per your school location and classes.

• Integration Process: Simple, Fill the following

online form to generate the integration API and

add the API code on your website.

www.buddy4study.com/generate-notice-

board

SMS Alerts Service (Class 1 to 12)

• SCHOLARSHIP SMS ALERT VOUCHER: (VALIDITY 1

YEAR)

• SMS BUDDY <Class> <12-Digit-PIN> to

9220092200

SCHOLARSHIP & ENTRANCE EXAM

BOOK (CLASS 1 TO 12) Scholarship Literature

– Types of Scholarships

– Myths, Doubts related to scholarships

– Do and Don’ts while filling application

forms.

– FAQs of Scholarships

150+ School Level Scholarship List

– For class LKG to 5: 68 Scholarships

– For class 6 to 10: 119 Scholarships

– For class 11 & 12: 125 Scholarships

60+ School Level Entrance Exam List

– For Class admission in nursery to Class

12, to Engineering, Medical, Fashion,

Design, NDA, International Schools etc

India’s first and most concise Scholarship

Guide Book for School Students

School Membership

Basic Awareness Services

• SMS Alerts

• Email Alerts

• Online Scholarship Notice

board (Integrated with

school website)

• Scholarship Seminars

• Basic School Profile

creation on Buddy4study

Premium Application Services

• All Basic Services

• Customize Profiling of

students for cultural,

sports, sports talent etc

• INSPIRE, LOREAL, CSS,

KVPY, Olympiad

Application Support

• Telephonic support

• SOP writing, preparatory

guidance etc

Thank you

• Media Partners = 45 Lakhs prints per month

Mr. Ashutosh Kr. Burnwal,

•Founder and CEO

•Author of Scholarship Guide-Book,

•Regular Columnist in Newspapers

Mob.: +91 78385 90203

Email: ashutosh@buddy4study.com

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