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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Scholarships for military children to open Dec. 13Published Dec. 8, 2016
                    
                    By Mike Perron
                    
                    
                    Defense Commissary Agency Public Affairs
            **FORT LEE, Va. (AFNS)  --**The Scholarships for Military Children Program for the 2017-18 school year will begin Dec. 13.
Now entering its 17th year, the program was created to recognize the contributions of military families to the readiness of the fighting force and to celebrate the role of the commissary in the military family community, according to the mission statement on the militaryscholar.org website. 
At least one scholarship worth $2,000 will be awarded at every commissary location where qualified applications are received. Additional recipients will be selected based on a prorated basis, so more scholarships will be awarded at those stores with larger numbers of applicants. A total of 700 scholarship grants will be awarded this year.
The Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps service members and their families, administers the program. Scholarship Managers, a national nonprofit scholarship management services organization, manages and awards the scholarships.
“This is always an exciting time of year when the Fisher House Scholarships for Military Children program kicks off, knowing 700 military children will have the opportunity to receive a $2,000 scholarship to help toward their studies,” said Marye Dobson, the Defense Commissary Agency’s liaison for the scholarship program. 
The commissary’s industry partners, including vendors, suppliers and manufacturers, as well as the general public donate money to the program and every dollar donated goes directly toward funding the scholarships.
To qualify for consideration, applicants must be a dependent, unmarried child, younger than 21, or 23, if enrolled as a full-time student at a college or university, of a service member on active duty, a Reserve or Guard member, retiree or survivor of a military member who died while on active duty or survivor of a retiree.
Applications must be hand-delivered or shipped via the U.S. Postal Service or other delivery methods to the commissary where the applicant’s family normally shops by close of business Feb. 12, 2017. Applications cannot be emailed or faxed.
“Every year, we continue to be impressed by the caliber of military children who submit applications.  The students who are selected to receive scholarship grants are truly ‘the best of the best,’” said Jim Weiskopf, the Fisher House Foundation vice president.
Applicants should ensure that they and their sponsor are enrolled in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System database and have a military ID card. The applicant must attend or plan to attend an accredited college or university, full time, in the fall of 2017 or be enrolled in studies designed to transfer to a four-year program.
Students who are awarded a full scholarship or receive an appointment to one of the military academies or affiliated preparatory schools are not eligible to receive funds from this program. A full scholarship is usually defined as one that provides for payment of tuition, books, lab fees and other expenses.
In the past 16 years of its existence, the program has awarded more than $15 million in scholarships to more than 9,000 students.  
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