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Exploration TermTravel Awards
rough the Student Government Association, funds are available for Exploration Term travel awards for sophomores, juniors, and
seniors who will be engaged in domestic or international study-travel. Preference is given to applicants with financial need and to
those applicants whose Exploration Term plans exhibit a strong academic component. e Exploration Term and Contract Learning
Committee and SGA representatives determine the recipients of the travel awards.
Applications are available on the Exploration Term/Contract Learning page of the BSC website, under “Exploration Term Travel
Awards”:
http://www.bsc.edu/academics/krulak/exp-con/awards.cfm.Completed applications must be submitted to the Office
of Exploration Term and Contract Learning on or before ursday, September 15, 2016. Students requesting funds for independent
projects must submit a completed contract approved by the pertinent faculty.
In addition, the Koinonia Scholarship provides financial support for a student or group of students to contract an Exploration Term
project concentrating on service issues in the global community. Applications are due on or before ursday, September 15, 2016;
applications are available at
http://www.bsc.edu/academics/krulak/exp-con/awards.cfm.
Exploration TermPhotography Contest
Take that camera and record your Exploration Term experiences on film—you could win a cash prize and a place on the cover of
the 2018 Exploration Term Bulletin!
Contest Rules: Contestants must be students of Birmingham-Southern College and have taken the photographs themselves. e
subject of the photographs must be an Exploration Term 2017 project. Photographs of both on- and off-campus projects are welcome!
E-mail submissions to
[email protected]. e best quality images are preferred, meaning (ideally) a minimum image size of 5 x 5
inches, and a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. JPEG and TIFF files provide best results. Setting your camera to its highest-quality setting
should result in a print-quality image. Entries must include the photograph’s title, location, Exploration Term project, student’s name,
student ID, and campus box number. Entries must be received in the Office of Exploration Term and Contract Learning by Friday,
February 10, 2017. Entrants in the contest consent to allow their photographs to be reproduced in Exploration Term and Contract
Learning promotional materials.