Next week, IHOP will give away tons of free pancakes in honor of National Pancake Day. To this, I say: Nay IHOP, Nay.
Don’t get me wrong. I hope IHOP reaches its goal to raise $3 million for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. I plan to hop in for my free stack and to make a donation. But all this pancake talk has me both hungry, and inspired to search for breakfast-themed scholarships.
You can get in the game, too. Just make a list of breakfast related words (e.g. orange juice, toast, Quaker oatmeal, etc.). Visit your favorite search engine, add the word “scholarship” to your breakfast terms, and see what turns up.
Here’s what I found:
McDonald’s, home of the sausage biscuit, offers several scholarships through Ronald McDonald House Charities. Applicants must be a high school senior and meet other eligibility requirements outlined by each scholarship.
McDonald’s also awards scholarships to its employees. While we’re at it, Burger King and Chick-fil-A also offer scholarships for employees. That’s something to keep in mind when your teen starts looking for that first job.
Pillsbury has great buttermilk biscuits, but if you win the 46th Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest, you’ll be raking in another kind of dough. They’re looking for quick and easy recipes. One hundred finalists will win trips to Las Vegas to compete for cash and merchandise.
The grand prize winner gets $1 million. Now, that’s enough to pay for college and a beach house.
What would a breakfast-themed scholarship hunt be without coffee?
Coffeeforless.com sponsors a $500 book scholarship for enrolled college students. Applicants must submit a 500-word essay. That’s a buck a word, not bad.
To my readers: What is your favorite breakfast treat? Do you think you can come up with a recipe for the Pillsbury contest? Got any scholarship hunt advice?
Breakfast and scholarships? I never even knew it was possible to make a correlation between these two let alone the programs running. Thanks for this…and for making me hungry for pancakes
Thanks TerriAnn. Blending non-related items together for my scholarship hunt keeps things interesting. More important, I come across opportunities that I probably never would have discovered.
Wow…there are scholarships for everything. My kids aren’t even in school yet, but we can do pancakes and help the cause that way!
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Hi Sarah. My kids aren’t in school yet, either. And it’s tough to find free college money for very young kids. But if it’s out there, I’ll find it. When my kids hit kindergarten, we’ll start competing in Doodle 4 Google. http://www.google.com/doodle4google/
What a great idea! I would have never thought about doing this! I am going to have to check it out for my son. As he gets older the prices of education will too! This would help a great deal!
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You’re right. The cost of education is going nowhere, but up. Best to start digging out those scholarships now. Thanks Michelle.
I’m always looking for ways to alleviate our future college costs. Thanks for the tips!
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Thanks for stopping by. I’ll stay on the hunt for free college dollars for our little ones.
What a great idea. I going to check out the links! Thanks for posting.
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I just really appreciate this advice! Anything to help pay for school, now or later, is helpful!
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Thank you Erin. Preparing for college is definitely a marathon. We’re going from diapers to dorms.
I have a daughter in 11th grade so I appreciate the information. I told her the other day she needs to get every and any free money she can for college. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks, Rob. Best wishes for your 11th grader. Make sure she remembers that she can still win scholarships even after she starts college.
Great article!
I need to develop some kind of recipe to enter. My oldest receives a partial scholarship to a local university. (Had she taken the ACT – again – a month or so earlier, she would have had full tuiton! But alas, we still have to pay about $4,000+ a year for tuition.)
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It’s great that your daughter earned a partial scholarship. Remind her that she can still apply for scholarships even as a college student.
This Pillsbury contest has my mind churning. I hope I can come up with something.
Free pancakes rock!
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Indeed, they do.
thanks for the information who ever knew pancakes could be most worthy?
we love pancakes, sausage and eggs and of course cinnamon rolls
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That is such helpful information, and I feel like not something that the average person would even know about! Stopping by from SITS.
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