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Scholarships From FOSS Organizations?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the if-not-they-should dept.

Athaulf writes "I'm a high school kid with big dreams of prestigious technology schools like MIT or Cal-Tech. The problem is, my upper-middle class family had more down to Earth plans for me and my college choices (about $30,000/year more down to Earth, actually), so financial aid and college savings won't come anywhere near MIT's price tag. However, I've been programming in C for a while now, and might release a GPL'd Linux app soon. With this self-taught programming experience, academic merit, and plenty of extra curricular activities, are there any FOSS supporting organizations who might grant me a scholarship for my contributions? Do companies like Google or Red-Hat offer scholarships to big name schools in return for a few years of work after college?"

3 of 348 comments (clear)

  1. Re:study abroad by Fizzl · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, thanks. Come over here and leech off of the system we have built on our (very high) taxes.

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  2. Re:Join the Army by Oligonicella · · Score: 0, Troll

    "but I hope I didn't make the military out to be a bad choice"

    Oh, please. That's exactly what you started out trying to do.

    "If that happens to be a place where you get shot at (and there seem to be quite a lot of those nowadays), then that's where you're going, no matter what your degree or where you got it."

    That is simply untrue.

  3. Re:A Few Clarifications by Slurgi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sounds like somebody missed nap-time...