May 13, 2011 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Ten passionate, tech-oriented scholars across the U.S. are getting help with college tuition this fall as winners of
Go Daddy's .ME Scholarships. The students were selected from thousands of applicants. Winners are being awarded a $10,000 scholarship for tuition and books.
The average college tuition costs rose eight percent last year, which puts higher education out of reach for many students across the country.
"I went to college thanks to the G.I. Bill," said Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons. "Having a college education can make all the difference when it comes to building a business or a career. Who knows ... we just might hire a few of our Go Daddy dot-ME scholarship winners after graduation."
The winners of the dot-ME scholarships wrote essays about their passion for technology and their drive to make a difference - all core Go Daddy principles. Go Daddy is the world's largest Web hosting provider and domain name registrar and is keenly interested in helping to develop a strong workforce for the future.
The winners come from Bakersfield, Calif. to Midlothian, Va. and all had stories about leveraging the power of the Internet for academics and their plans for using technology in their future.
From a young age, the winners have understood the power of the Internet. According to one winner, "Overall, the Internet has allowed me to pursue my interest in technology by providing me with a platform on which I could become an entrepreneur and talented Web designer/developer."
The Go Daddy .ME Scholarship winners, their hometown and college they plan to attend are:
- Patrick A., Midlothian, Va., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Kryan A., Phoenix, Ariz., University of Colorado
- Lindsay B., Laguna Niguel, Calif., University of California-Irvine
- Annica B., Scottsdale, Ariz., Arizona State University
- Brian D., Boca Raton, Fla., Emory University
- Stephen G., Lakewood, Ohio, The Ohio State University
- Katie H., Phoenix, Ariz., Arizona State University
- Michael L., Bakersfield, Calif., Georgia Institute of Technology
- Shavana S., Tucson, Ariz., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- James S., Daytona Beach, Fla., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Go Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration plans and website design and hosting packages, as well as a broad array of on-demand services. These include products such as SSL Certificates, Domains by Proxy private registration, ecommerce website hosting, blog templates and blog software, podcast packages and online photo hosting. The Go Daddy Group has more than 47 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers more than one domain name every second of every day. GoDaddy.com is the world's largest Web hosting provider and is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. In 2010, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all new domain names created in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.
