{"id":23622,"date":"2024-02-20T00:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=23622"},"modified":"2024-02-20T01:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T06:57:53","slug":"brick-chamber-of-commerce-opening-annual-scholarship-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/02\/brick-chamber-of-commerce-opening-annual-scholarship-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Chamber of Commerce Opening Annual Scholarship Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23623\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23623\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Graduation cap and diploma. (Credit: Creative Commons\/ Graduation & Safe Driving\/ State Farm)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduation cap and diploma. (Credit: Creative Commons\/ Graduation & Safe Driving\/ State Farm)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick Township\u2019s Chamber of Commerce will provide $20,000 in scholarships to township residents continuing their education this year, and the organization\u2019s application is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickchamber.com\/upload\/mediafiles\/17059412172024_BTCOC_Educational_Foundation_Scholarship_App_FNL_DRFT%5B86%5D.pdf\">online and accepting entries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Brick Township Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation website has a form prospective students can fill out. The scholarships are open to anyone who meets any of the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seniors graduating from Brick Township High School or Brick Memorial High School<\/li>\n<li>Graduates of either of the Brick high schools and\/or OCVTS who are continuing post-<br \/>\nsecondary students and\/or continuing education students<\/li>\n<li>Members of The Brick Township Chamber of Commerce, employees of members, the children of members, or the children of employees of members (Note: ALL Brick Township Schools are members of the Brick Township Chamber of Commerce).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All scholarships are open to adults as well as graduating high school seniors. Scholarships are offered for vocational as well as academic education.<\/p>\n<p>The application requirements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A copy of your high school or college transcript.<\/li>\n<li>Two letters of recommendation (e.g., from guidance counselor, teacher, clergy, coach, employer).<\/li>\n<li>A typed essay of 300-500 words including your current goals and objectives for your education<br \/>\nand beyond. Please include why you feel you deserve this scholarship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Completed application packages must be returned to the Chamber by March 27. The PDF format web form may be submitted by e-mail (preferred), carried by postal mail or physically dropped off at the Chamber office at Civic Plaza in Brick. The full details and application for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickchamber.com\/upload\/mediafiles\/17059412172024_BTCOC_Educational_Foundation_Scholarship_App_FNL_DRFT%5B86%5D.pdf\">can be found online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/02\/brick-chamber-of-commerce-opening-annual-scholarship-application\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick Township\u2019s Chamber of Commerce will provide $20,000 in scholarships to township residents continuing their education this year, and the organization\u2019s application is now online and accepting entries. The Brick Township Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation website has a form prospective students can fill out. The scholarships are open to anyone who meets any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1649],"tags":[24,608,4484,223],"class_list":["post-23622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-local-business","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-chamber-of-commerce","tag-featured","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/17125003290_0db81b7bdc_k.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-690","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}