We’re pleased to announce that we have opened the Summer 2009 OP Loftbed Scholarship Award! The deadline is July 31, 2009 and the questions this time are:

1. If you could send a postcard back to yourself 3 years ago, what would you say? Only write what you would write on the post card, without any other explanation for your answer.
2. Create a vanity license plate for your own car. (8 characters or less consisting of letters, numbers, symbols, or spaces). Tell us why would you like to have this license plate.
3. If you were a fashion doll or action figure, what would be in the accessories package and why?
4. If you were going to get a tattoo of any company or product logo, what would it be?

Visit our scholarship area to submit your application now!

Update on the Fall 2008 scholarship:

Finalists were supposed to be notified by November 14, 2008. However, we goofed! We decided to begin offering quarterly scholarships in the summer of 2008 and this was the first of those quarterly scholarships. Although we had successfully held seven annual scholarship contests previous to this, it turns out that quarterly is just too often for us to handle properly. As of mid-January, we hadn’t yet chosen and notified the finalists the Fall 2008 Scholarship and had not yet started accepting applications for the next scholarship. We are very sorry for this! Although we meant well, we executed it poorly by biting off more than we could chew.

We have things back on track now and we do want to offer more scholarship opportunities. We’ve decided that instead of offering quarterly scholarships, we will offer two scholarships each year with deadlines of January 31st and July 31st. If we can improve the way we handle these we may still switch to quarterly scholarships at a later date. We want to offer quarterly scholarship but we just have to improve how we handle everything.

First-round finalists for the Fall 2008 scholarship will be notified by January 23, 2009. Finalists will be given 10 business days from date of notification to prove that they are a United States citizen. If proof is not received in the allotted time frame then new finalists will be chosen. Because of this no date can be given for when the winner will be announced. (Finalists may be notified by either email, snail mail, telephone, or carrier pigeon if we can find one that knows the way.)

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