March 28, 2012 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
.ME Registry, the provider of the personalized domain name extensions and ccTLD for Montenegro is partnering with
Go Daddy.com, the world's largest provider of Web hosting, domain name registrations and new SSL Certificates, to offer 10 eligible students $10,000 each for college tuition. This is the second annual .ME Scholarship Program for technology focused students and the March 30 deadline is fast-approaching.
“We feel that there is nothing more important or valuable than education,” said Predrag Lesic, Executive Director of the .ME Registry. “We are excited to partner with Go Daddy again to offer the dot-ME Scholarship in order to help technology focused students get the resources they need to further their knowledge and skills.”
"Go Daddy is stepping up to support the future of the technology industry," said Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman. "By investing in these tech-driven students, we are investing in the future of Go Daddy. These scholarship recipients may well be our future employees the next generation of Go Daddy technologists.”
Last year’s Go Daddy .ME Scholarship winners are close to completing their freshman year in top-ranked universities, nationwide including Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
In the days leading up to the application deadline, the .ME Registry will feature interviews with several 2011 scholarship winners on the .ME blog. These students will share how winning a Go Daddy .ME Scholarship has contributed to their personal, technical and academic development.
To apply for the Go Daddy .ME Scholarship, applicants must be pursuing an undergraduate degree in fall 2012, have a minimum 3.0 GPA and have scored higher than 1000 on the SAT or 21+ on the ACT. Applicants need to submit two letters of recommendation and write a 500-word essay describing how the Internet or Internet technology has helped them in the course of their studies, and how they envision benefiting from it in the future.
The final submission date is Friday, March 30, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (PT) Winners will be announced on or around April 25, 2012.
