Tri Kappa announces scholarship opportunities

PERRY COUNTY – The State organization of Tri Kappa will award a variety of scholarships to college students throughout Indiana in the spring. 
Each state scholarship will be awarded in the amount of $1,000. Tri Kappa has provided scholarship awards since 1914, acknowledging students on the local, province and state levels. 
Chapters, provinces and the state organization combined currently give nearly $500,000 annually honoring academic achievement.
Jody Robinson, vice president and scholarship chairwoman of the Epsilon Omega Chapter in Tell City, is currently seeking applicants for the following:
Twelve $1,000 academic scholarships will be awarded and additional at large scholarships could be awarded dependent upon the funds available. 
To apply, students must be currently enrolled in a baccalaureate or graduate program, having completed at least one academic year. 
Criteria used by the Tri Kappa selection committee are academic achievement, strong goals, extracurricular activities, work experience and volunteer service.
Two $1,000 Key Scholarships are available to students throughout the state.  These are directed to those students who have no previous degree beyond high school and have had a lapse in their education for at least five years. Any student enrolled in an accredited school offering an associate or baccalaureate degree, who has completed at least one semester, may apply. 
Criteria used by the Tri Kappa selection committee are strong goals, work experience and volunteer service since high school.
Two $1,000 fine arts scholarships will be awarded statewide to students majoring in art, dance, drama or music (performance, visual-graphic or computer-generated art or educator). To apply students must be currently enrolled in an accredited baccalaureate or graduate degree program, having completed at least one academic year.
The $1,000 Twanette Nutter Fleming Music Award stipulates that the applicant must be enrolled in a fully accredited course of study leading to a degree to teach music in a private, public or parochial school, having completed at least one academic year.
The Tri Kappa State Scholarship Committee will meet in early spring to select the recipients. 
Students wishing to apply for any of these scholarships are encouraged to contact Jody Robinson, scholarship chair, at 719-7404 or at robin sonjody@ymail.com.
In addition to the state scholarships, the Epsilon Omega Chapter of Tri Kappa offers three local scholarships and contributes an applicant to the Province I-Erma Ribeyre Greathouse Scholarship. 
These applications are available to graduating high school seniors in the county, and will be made available to the students through the school guidance departments at all three county high schools.