COMPETITION/COURSES (Opportunists)
Like I said under making money in the
betting industry, everyone has the innate need to be lucky. Who wants bad luck?
But the issue and the question is
always “How can I be lucky?” Where is luck so I might bribe him? Lol.
Almost everyone who comes online
wants to get something for nothing, either a free news info, or an article that
details how to do something for free, and so on. There is nothing wrong with
that, it is just that sometimes, before getting to the truly free info, you
will first have been lured and deceived by many other sites claiming to offer
something for free when it isn’t actually free (have you been there before? Lol,
very annoying).
I will try to give you as many truly free competitions and scholarship opportunities and useful links as possible. I will also keep updating this list so that it contains useful links and updated information. Even if I can’t update this one per time, I will post whatever useful freebie I find useful for you as a blog post, so keep coming back to this blog to check or simply subscribe by putting your email address in the space provided on the right side of this blog.
Someone once said that “Luck is what
happens when opportunity meets preparation”. For you to be lucky to win any of
these grants, scholarships, fellowships or competitions, you have to be
prepared.
Some scholarships require you to
simply apply for admission, while others require you to meet a particular GPA
every year for the scholarship to be renewed. Still, some require you to have
put in some community leadership or volunteer work to qualify for the
fellowship or scholarship. I recently put in for the Mandela Washington
Fellowship and part of what was really emphasized was community work done in
the past or at present.
For the contests, I will be
concentrating on international competitions that Nigerians living in Nigeria
can enter for, and I will also be concentrating on TRULY free-entry
competitions whose prizes include money/cash. If Nigerians cannot enter for it,
for me to post it, then it will have to be a really, really popular
competition. Let’s get started.
The way it works is that for some of
the competitions, winners are selected by professional judges whereas for
others, winners are selected by votes from other community users/competitors. But all in all, you have to know that the scholarship exists first, then prepare to maximize it. I wish you all the best as you apply for any of these that are within your area of talent or expertise.
1.
Youth-idea competitions, poetry
competitions and other intellectual competitions:
People
make money from using their knowledge and intelligence in areas such as ideas
generation, poetry, writing/essay competitions online, and many more. Study and Scholarship contest page is devoted to contests, idea competition and essays that you can put in for.
Examples include:
Examples include:
a) Poetry/essays/writing: Creativegenius has a couple of poetry competitions but not all of them apply to Nigerians,
firstwriter.com
is a paid subscription online community with lots of free-entry writing and
poetry competitions. Subscription to the community costs about $5. Fanstory.com has a lot of poetry and writing contests, also
freelancewriting for writing contests.
Check this link for the annual GDN/Bill and Mellinda Gates essay contest, and more poetry contests here
b) Talents/Photography/singing: Tallenge.com is
a very cool site for anyone who is talented in photography, music, art, and
many more. Try it out. They have cool prizes too. It is an online community
whereby winners aren’t selected by judges but by other’s votes. Other photo competitions can be found at LagosPhoto festival,
WorldPhoto.org/competitions, while Photo contest insider has a lot of links to great photo competitions.
c) Idea grants, fellowship and funds for enterpreneurs:
Ø UNESCO/STIFTUNG youth idea competition, the 2013/2014 edition just ended but 2014/2015 competition will begin in January.
Ø Omidyar Network isn’t a competition
but an investment fund for entrepreneurs. They support businesses all over the
world.
Ø Ashoka Youth venture Fellowship for
social entrepreneurs, this link is also relevant.
d) Stocks/trading:
NSE annual Essay competition
Gurufocus’s stock market ideas competition
Howthemarketworks.com stock trading contests
FREE TUITION UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Here are a couple of links for free tuition universities in the world that you can apply to and also scholarship opportunities.
For free tuition universities, check this site. You will find universities in different countries and continents that offer free tuition courses.
Study and Scholarships website also has a lot of links to useful postgraduate scholarship opportunities and undergraduate opportunities. You can also check Scholarshipbar too.
I hope you get a scholarship, win a grant or any competition you apply/put in for. All the best.
FREE TUITION UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Here are a couple of links for free tuition universities in the world that you can apply to and also scholarship opportunities.
For free tuition universities, check this site. You will find universities in different countries and continents that offer free tuition courses.
Study and Scholarships website also has a lot of links to useful postgraduate scholarship opportunities and undergraduate opportunities. You can also check Scholarshipbar too.
I hope you get a scholarship, win a grant or any competition you apply/put in for. All the best.
To be
continued.
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