This information is very simple to follow. Here in the Bay Area, there is over a dozen major universities - each has a scholarship office. Every year we hear about high school students who raise enormous amounts of money to defray their college education costs.
All students have access to the Internet today.
Working at any job is good experience and good for the soul. Besides, they will usually only provide you with a list of scholarship foundation addresses so you could contact them yourself. Invest a few dollars for stamps and envelopes. You could share the work with your friends and share the costs. You could also apply online to numerous scholarship databases.