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Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes: Scholarship deadline is April 30

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes is available to students age 18 and younger who have organized and led a service activity that has clearly benefited other people. The service activity must have been initiated and motivated primarily by the student and cannot have been an assignment for school or work. Additionally, the student must demonstrate a positive spirit and high moral purpose. To be considered, each applicant must be nominated by an adult who has solid knowledge of the service activity and is not a relative.

April is National Poetry Month

We are reaching the end of National Poetry Month. Have you taken time to learn more about the great American poets? Some of our favorites include e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, and Walt Whitman.

To learn more about these great poets, plus many more, visit Great American Poets.

Attention Nationwide undergrad and grad students: Tylenol Scholarship program will make $250,000 available for deserving college students

The Tylenol Future Care Scholarship is offered to undergraduate students who have already begun their freshman year of college. It is also available to graduate students who have at least one year of school remaining. The Tylenol scholarship is based on leadership qualities, academic performance and community involvement.

April is National School Library Month

April is School Library Month, sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of ALA. Every April school librarians create activities to help their school and local community celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a student’s educational career.