scholarship requirements 2022-23
GAMING SCHOLARS

Documentation must be submitted to aduduit@shawnee.edu. If you have a schedule conflict
or other issues with any of these requirements, please message ssucareers on Discord with an explanation and proposed resolution.

The following are REQUIRED to maintain your Choose Ohio First Scholarship.

  • If you haven’t already, join the SSU Choose Ohio First Discord HERE.

  • GPA of 2.0 or higher — These will be pro-rated — (e.g. 3.6 = 2,100 points, etc.)

    • Less than 2.5: Dismissed from the COF scholarship program.

    • 2.5: 1,000 points

    • 3.0: 1,500 points

    • 3.5: 2,000 points

    • 4.0: 2,500 points

FALL SEMESTER REQUIREMENTS — Due by Nov. 30, 2022

SPRING SEMESTER REQUIREMENTS — due by April 30, 2023:

  • Attend and participate in Shawnee GameCon on March 10-11, 2023. Any cost for admission to the event will be provided: 500 points

    • Optional opportunities at GameCon for extra points:

      • Volunteer and work at GameCon: 300 extra points

      • Participate in the Capture the Flag contest: 300 extra points

      • Win the Capture the Flag contest: 500 extra points

  • Register for, attend, and visit with at least 75% of the employers at the Gaming Career Fair during GameCon on Friday, March 11, 2023. More details are forthcoming. Give each employer a hard copy of your resume, and get their contact information: 1,000 points

  • Attend guest lectures/Kricker Innovation Hub events — Events will be communicated through the Discord COF channel: 200 points for each attended

  • Participate in Startup Weekend in the spring of 2023 — 500 points — details forthcoming.

    • If your team wins Startup Weekend, you will receive an additional 500 points.

      • Join the Kricker Innovation Hub Discord HERE.

    • An acceptable substitute to Startup Weekend is a game jam event.

      • You get 1,000 points for participation in both Startup Weekend and a game jam.

  • Perform a successful internship or work-based requirement in which you perform duties that are relevant to your major (credit or non-credit): 1,000 points

    • Success will be determined by employer feedback.

    • Once you have completed an internship, you are required to report it through Handshake at THIS LINK.

    • Alternative: Register and participate in at least 75% of Spring 2023 Gaming Networking Series events — information and dates will be announced at the beginning of Spring Semester.

Extra points are available for the following:

  • Actively participate in the following Verizon Learning Initiative mentoring opportunity: 200 points:

    • Eight volunteers are needed on Friday, April 7, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
      Volunteers would lead an informal campus tour and assist with a design challenge
      or Minute-to-Win-It games. Each volunteer will be assigned to a group to stay with all day to lead them to different activities. If interested, email Kim Ellison at kellison@shawnee.edu, or call 740-351-3477.

  • Submit a quality proposal for the Choose Ohio First 2023 conference: 500 points*
    Find out more HERE.

  • Present at Choose Ohio First in spring 2023: 500 points

  • Attend additional gaming conferences: 500 points each

  • Find a mentor who is currently working in a job relevant to your major, and meet with them in-person or virtually at least twice a semester: 500 points*

  • Propose your own special project, research or idea and proposed number of extra points. Send to aduduit@shawnee.edu for consideration no later than February 1, 2023.

Grand Prize for
Top Four Competition Winners

The top four will receive an all-expense paid trip
(transportation, food, lodging and admission)
to the East Coast Gaming Conference.
This event will be hosted by Triangle Game Initiative
at the Raleigh Convention Center (North Carolina) on April 18-20, 2023.