SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Wondershare, a trusted world-class publisher of Windows® and Mac® utility applications and mobile apps announced a new scholarship program, which will award two aspiring students with a $1,000.00 scholarship. Additionally, Wondershare is expanding its "Software for Schools" software donation program to include new software titles available to schools. In today's economy, it's often a challenge for students to pay for college. This has the effect of keeping some of our brightest minds from getting a college degree, and denies the global workforce qualified technology-oriented workers. Wondershare is stepping up to help combat the problem by providing technology and financial resources to students and educators.
NEW! - Wondershare 2013 Scholarship Program
Wondershare is making available two (2) $1,000.00 scholarships which can be used towards tuition, housing, books, and other college expenses. To be eligible for one of the Wondershare scholarships, students must be in the graduating class of 2013 of a public or private High School in the Sacramento California area and be enrolled in a public or private Community College, 4-year University, or Technical School; and the student should be pursuing a degree in a technology field of study.
To apply, eligible students are being asked to submit a 500-word essay on the topic of "How Technology Enriches Our Lives". A special Wondershare committee will review submitted essays, and the two winners will be selected based on the merits of the essays, at Wondershare's sole discretion. Winners will be notified and scholarship checks presented during commencement ceremonies at the relevant High Schools, or privately if requested.
Scholarship Application Instructions
Interested students meeting the eligibility requirements are kindly requested to submit their essays to Wondershare at the email address: scholarship@wondershare.com. Essays may be submitted as plain text, a MS Word document, or a PDF. Essays will be accepted from today through April 30, 2013 at midnight PDT. Winners will be announced May 13th, 2013.
EXPANDED! - "Software for Schools" Donation Program
Wondershare is expanding its popular "Software for Schools" donation program to include additional software titles available for donation. To date, Wondershare has donated more than 1,000 copies of its Video Editor movie making software, and now additional titles including Wondershare PDF Editor for Windows (excluding the optional OCR Plugin) and PDF Editor for Mac are available for donation. Interested teachers and school administrators are encouraged to send an email to software4school@wondershare.com to request additional information or to request as many licenses as needed to outfit their classrooms.
Learn more about Wondershare's entire lineup of award winning multi-media, business productivity, PDF, and system utility software products at Wondershare.com.
About Wondershare
Wondershare, an IDG invested company, is an innovative software developer dedicated to delivering the very best in software products and services to the worldwide consumer and business market segments. Wondershare has branch offices in the United States and Japan. Wondershare has been honored as Deloitte Tech Fast 500 Asia Pacific and China 50 for three consecutive years, and Forbes Business Potential of China for two consecutive years. For more information about Wondershare and its products, please visit http://www.wondershare.com.
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