OCH Programs > Young Scholars
The Oregon Council for the Humanities has offered programs and resources for learning and enjoyment to communities, schools, and individuals throughout Oregon for more than twenty-five years. Thanks to support from public and private sources, OCH programs are offered free of charge to nonprofit organizations, schools, and individuals.
Young Scholars
Program Overview
Young Scholar Grants offer Oregon sophomores the opportunity to spend a summer working on a humanities research project of their own design. From film to philosophy, politics to pop music, literature to law, ethics to archaeology, and more, the humanities offer a wealth of fascinating questions to pursue. What are hip hop's roots? How do different generations view the American dream? As Young Scholars explore their own questions, they become active researchers, writers, and scholars of our culture.
This May, the Oregon Council for the Humanities will award $2,000 grants to twelve creative, curious Oregon sophomores. Grant recipients will dedicate about twenty hours per week to their projects over the summer.
Young people today begin to participate in culture at an early age, in diverse and at times unprecedented forms. Greater spending power, access to the Internet, larger blocks of unsupervised time, greater freedom for individual expression - all these factors enable youth to become sophisticated consumers of culture. Video games, movies, musicians, sports, and comic books all powerfully affect their social and individual identities. Young Scholars offers youth an opportunity to transform their experience from being cultural consumers into becoming cultural producers, observers, and creators.
2007 Young Scholars
Program Details
Eligibility
Any Oregon high school sophomore can apply to be the recipient of a Young Scholar Grant.
How to Apply
Applications and guidelines are now available. Click here to download.
For More Information
If you are curious about how you can apply for this grant, know of an aspiring young scholar, or would like more information on this program, please contact Director of Programs Jennifer Allen at (503) 241-0543; (800)735-0543; or by e-mail.