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For Immediate Release: Asian Commercial Professional Scholarship Offer
Date: February 28, 2011
Contact: Stuart Lee, ACP Scholarship Committee, skl8888@gmail.com
Asian Commercial Professionals (“ACP”) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based non-profit organization dedicated to fostering leadership, education, networking and scholarship within the commercial real estate and facilities industries.
Consistent with one of its goals of encouraging and recognizing excellence in pursuing a career in commercial real estate, engineering, architecture or one of its related fields or in the building trades, ACP is offering a $1,000 scholarship to a deserving student or trainee in one of those fields.
Eligibility: Must be either admitted to or enrolled in an apprenticeship program, trade school, college or college graduate school, and pursuing a course of study in one of the fields related to commercial real estate, including, but not limited to: Facilities Management, Real Estate Agency, Brokerage or Development, Architecture, Engineering (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Materials, Industrial, Architectural, Environmental and all related engineering disciplines), General Contractor, Construction Management, and Apprenticeship Training Programs (Carpentry, Pipe Fitting, Iron Working, Sheet Metal, etc).
Application: Candidates must fill out the application form available through the ACP web site www.asiancompro.com , ACP Scholarship Committee, Stuart Lee at skl8888@gmail.com , or at their trade school or college placement office.
Essay: The candidates will be asked to write an essay of up to 1,000 words on one of the following topics:
“As a person pursuing a career in commercial real estate, construction management, architecture or engineering or one of its related fields, this is how I plan to participate in and contribute back to the Asian Pacific American Community.”
“While growing up as an Asian in America I’ve learned the following lessons that will carry with me for life.”
“Why do I identify myself as Asian or Asian-American and why does that matter?”
“Tell us about a personal accomplishment (or talent, extra curricular activity) that you spent time pursuing after school.”
Deadline: All applications and essays must be postmarked or delivered by April 15, 2011. See the application form for details.
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