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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> SIPES National Office [<a href="mailto:sipes@sipes.org">mailto:sipes@sipes.org</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 12, 2013 3:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:bissells@swbell.net">bissells@swbell.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> SIPES Foundation 2013 Scholarship Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">Dear SIPES Member:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6"> The SIPES Foundation Board of Directors has extended the deadline date for receiving SIPES Foundation Earth Science Scholarship applications to
<strong>July 31, 2013</strong>. Please help this important program by notifying your favorite university earth science or engineering department about the availability of these awards, and the new deadline date. Awards begin at $2000, and the requirements for
scholarship applicants are:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">U.S. Citizenship</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#999999;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">Applicants must be currently enrolled in an accredited university as an upper-division (<em>junior or senior level</em>) or graduate student majoring in a field of earth science or engineering
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">Applicants should have an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#999999;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">Applicants are asked to submit </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2680D6">an application form, transcript, and three letters of recommendation</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2680D6">Application forms are available from the following link:
<a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=28831986&msgid=402000&act=OE6B&c=840206&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fold.sipes.org%2Fpdfs%2FSchlrApp13.pdf">
<span style="color:#E84074">http://old.sipes.org/pdfs/SchlrApp13.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">An email will be sent to members in the early fall listing the winning students. Thank you in advance for helping with this project. Last year the SIPES Foundation presented nine awards to earth science
and engineering students totaling $20,500, and hopes to do this again in 2013. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#2680D6">SIPES Foundation Board of Directors </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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