Scholarships Available Through The SD Department Of Ed

High school seniors and college freshman can now apply for Davis-Bahcall Scholarships and the chance to study next summer at the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory in Lead, Princeton University in New Jersey, and Gran Sasso Lab in Italy.

Applications are available on the South Dakota Department of Education’s Web site. Up to 12 South Dakota students will get the scholarships. The deadline to apply is Dec. 18.

Select students will be invited to interview for the program in January at various locations in the state, and recipients will be announced in mid-February.

Davis-Bahcall Scholarship recipients spend one month in the summer studying such fields as physics, engineering and geology. Their classrooms includes locations that span the globe – from the Black Hills to the Italian countryside site of the largest underground lab in the world for certain physics experiments. The teachers include distinguished professors from around the world.

Up to 12 additional students may also be chosen from the Davis-Bahcall applicant pool to participate in a two-week South Dakota Summer Science Scholarship program at the Sanford Lab at Homestake in July and one other lab site within the United States, which has not yet been determined.

For more information, visit the South Dakota Department of Education’s Web site at www.doe.sd.gov