VividCon Scholarship

The annual VividCon scholarship is intended to bring someone to the con who has never previously attended and otherwise might not be able to come. Selection criteria may vary. You may want to nominate someone that you feel has made a significant contribution to vidding, either as a vidder or non-vidder. (Non-vid contributions might include making vid rec pages or archives, betaing vids, giving extensive feedback, participating in vid discussion, and so on, and many of these might even be more valuable to vid fandom than just making vids). You may want to nominate someone who is just starting out, but shows a great deal of potential,and who would both enjoy and benefit from a trip to the con. You may want to nominate someone who you feel would add new ideas and a new perspective! Think outside the vidding box!

Scholarship winners will be asked to contribute to the con, either by VJing, moderating, or volunteering in the con suite, for a total of three hours. Both vidders and non-vidders are eligible.

Nominations are welcome at vividcon@vividcon.com and will be kept strictly confidential -- we will not let anyone know who nominated who, or how many nominations different people received. Once all the nominations are in, the concom will award the scholarship to the person who best matches the criteria (not necessarily the one who has the most nominations). If the winner cannot accept the scholarship, a runner up will be chosen by the concom. If the cancellation comes too close to the con to find a different winner, the funds will be saved over to the following year.

Please send in your nominations by May 15th -- the scholarship will be awarded by June 1st, to give the winner time to make travel arrangements. When nominating, please include the nominee's name, how we can reach them (email or phone preferred), and why you think they meet the criteria. URLs where we can see their work or other contributions (if applicable) would also be great.

On a technical note, the scholarship fund is kept separate from con expenses and will not be used to cover them under any circumstances. It will be used to cover as much as possible (based on how much we raise) of the winner's expenses. If the con has enough money to do so, we'll be covering the cost of the membership fee, or otherwise the scholarship will be used to cover that, then hotel expenses based on the assumption of sharing a room with 3 other people, then the winner's travel expenses. Any extra funds will be saved for the following year's scholarship fund. If the con stops running and there is money left in the scholarship fund, it will be donated to the con charity, Gallery 37.

Please feel free to send a donation of any amount via PayPal using the link below, or you can send a check or money order (US funds only please!) made out to Vividcon LLC to:

Vividcon LLC
1624 E. Virginia
Stillwater OK 74075

Please be sure to specify in your PayPal transaction or check that you are making a donation for the scholarship fund.

Scholarship Fund Donation:
This button will take you to a PayPal form where you can specify any amount you like.

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