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Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
Are you considering attending a college or career school? Which one to attend is one of the most important decisions you need to make. Another is how you're going to pay for your education. To help you, the U.S. Department of Education offers a variety of student financial aid programs.Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on the Web.

FINAID
FinAid was established in the fall of 1994 as a public service. This award-winning site has grown into the most comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial aid on the web.

Girls Going Places College Scholarship Program
Candidates must be nominated by someone who is a U.S. citizen: self-nominations are not permitted. Recipients are girls who demonstrate budding entrepreneurship or financial acumen, who have taken first steps toward financial independence, and have made a difference at their schools, within their communities, or in other people's lives.

Global Science Scholar Program
This award is designed to encourage talented students of math and science to consider careers in communications technology. In addition to the cash award, winners meet at the Bell Labs in New Jersey to spend one week working alongside Bell Lab scientists to solve a real world problem.

National High School Essay Contest
This year's topic question is: How should the U.S. help achieve the Millennium Development Goals? Students respond in an essay no longer than 1500 words

OpenBook AnyWhere ESL/ELL Research Grant
This three-to-two matching grant aims to help qualifying schools continue efforts to identify research-based best practices for literacy instruction for non-English speakers or those with limited English proficiency. Grants will consist of an OpenBook AnyWhere software license sized to each school's needs along with collateral support materials. The recipient will be asked to commit that the grant licenses be used in a scientifically-based research protocol that must include a control group for a research period of one year.

Staples Recycle for Education
Staples Inc. will donate $3 to public schools for every eligible ink cartridge they collect. Staples created the "Staples Recycle for Education" program in July 2003 to encourage cartridge recycling at its 1,100 U.S. stores but has now expanded the program nationwide. Staples now provides prepaid postage for shipping the cartridges and an account number so schools can monitor the status of reimbursement checks and total collection counts. Parents or teachers can log on to the web site below to register their school and receive a welcome kit that includes flyers to announce the program.