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The ability to compose compelling proposals is a useful and highly marketable business skill. Applying for scholarships is excellent training.

MusicWorx offers its interns outstanding opportunity to meet scholarship requirements due to the diverse training experiences provided by multiple special-populations health facilities. To date, three MusicWorx interns have applied for and won awards:
Alex Babani | 1998 Brian Smith Memorial Scholarship
Julie Guy | 2002 Brian Smith Memorial Scholarship
Kimberly Sena | 2002 Edwina Eustis Dick Scholarship
The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) maintains a list of available scholarships and their respective requirements. The scholarship pages, however, are accessible only to registered members. Both undergraduate and graduate students may purchase an annual nonvoting AMTA membership for $70.

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Scholarship 1
    |   $500 Brian Smith Memorial     Click to view Scholarship 2
 


Information as it appeared at the AMTA web site, February 2002.

The Smith family and AMTA member Alice Avigal established this scholarship in memory of Brian Smith, who valued music but died in a drug-related accident.

Eligibility
1 | Must be a student enrolled in an AMTA-approved academic program
2 | Must be a current AMTA student member
3 | Must be an intern between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2002
4 | Must be pursuing training in chemical dependency or adolescent programs

Application Content and Scoring | 120 points
0 points   | signed, dated, completed application
10 points | personal, community, college activities
15 points | student copy of college transcripts
15 points | three recommendation letters (music therapy professor, professional familiar with applicant's clinical skills, person of applicant's choice)
20 points | participation in AMTA conferences and committees, presentations, publications
20 points | 800-word essay describing long-term professional goals
20 points | 400-word essay describing ways in which AMTA can impact the music therapy profession

Reviewing Committee
Five AMTA member MT-BCs, all approved by the AMTA Executive Board

One Annual Award
February 2002 award determination will be announced at the spring Regional Conferences. Cash award will coincide with internship onset.

Submission
Collated original plus five collated copies of the application to the following address:
Brian Smith Memorial Scholarship c/o AMTA
8455 Colesville Rd., #1000
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Submission Deadline
December 1, 2001 postmark

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Scholarship 2
   |  $500 Edwina Eustis Dick     Click to review Scholarship 1
 


Information as it appeared at the AMTA web site, February 2002.

Edwina Dick graciously donated the initial fund after she observed decades of steady music therapy growth to its present prominence.

Eligibility
1 | Must be a student enrolled in an AMTA-approved academic program
2 | Must be a current AMTA student member
3 | Must be an intern between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2002
4 | Must submit internship confirmation prior to award

Application Content and Scoring | 120 points
0 points   | signed, dated, completed application
10 points | personal, community, college activities
15 points | student copy of college transcripts
15 points | three recommendation letters (music therapy professor, professional familiar with applicant's clinical skills, person of applicant's choice)
20 points | participation in AMTA conferences and committees, presentations, publications
20 points | 800-word essay describing long-term professional goals
20 points | 400-word essay describing ways in which AMTA can impact the music therapy profession

Think futuristically, and respond creatively--outside the box.

Reviewing Committee
Five AMTA member MT-BCs, all approved by the AMTA Executive Board

Two Annual Awards
February 2002 award determinations will be announced at the spring Regional Conferences. Cash awards will coincide with internship onset.

Submission
Collated original plus five collated copies of the application to the following address:
Edwina Eustis Dick Scholarship c/o AMTA
8455 Colesville Rd., #1000
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Submission Deadline
December 1, 2001 postmark

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Scholarship 3
  |  $500 E. Thayer Gaston Writing Competition     Click to review Scholarship 1
 


Information as it appeared at the AMTA web site, February 2002.

The AMTA and its Student Affairs Advisory Board cooperated to offer this award to authors of winning papers, whose topics relate to music therapy philosophical, historical, descriptive or experimental research modes.

Eligibility
All undergraduate and equivalency students enrolled in an AMTA-approved academic program.
All interns in clinical training are eligible through their parent academic institution.

Submission Requirements
Limited to one paper per entrant
Must not have been previously published
May be individually or jointly authored
Must include a title page specifying author, academic institution, and academic advisor's name
No identifying information found on the title page is to be printed on any page of the paper's text
Style and format are to be guided by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

Award Criteria
Originality, organization, clarity, relevance to the music therapy profession, documentation, and adherence to the writing style manual.

Reviewing Committee
One clinician, one academician, one non-music therapist in a related field

One Annual Award
Should the committee feel that no paper meets the requisite criteria or that no paper is worthy, they will withhold award for that year. Cash award also provides an opportunity for review and possible publication in the Journal of Music Therapy.

Submission
Collated original plus two collated copies of the application to the following address:
E. Thayer Gaston Writing Competition
c/o JoEllyn Berky Beck, PhD MT-BC
Immaculata College Dep't of Music
Immaculata, PA 19345

Submission Deadline
July 15, 2001 postmark

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