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Permalink Reply by Patricia Barry Rumble on February 24, 2014 at 8:20am

1) Google lighting design scholarships. The internet is your friend!

2) Talk to groups like the Rotary Club, your chamber of commerce, to find out if there are any scholarships for students.

3) There are several generous scholarships, including performing arts, available through the JACL (Japanese American Citizen League).. you have to be a member; you don't have to be Japanese or Asian American to join, just have an interest in Asian culture and civil rights issues and become a member. For a senior going to Freshman year into college, the deadline is March 1... for undergrad and grad students, the application deadline is April 1st. Check out www.jacl.org. for detailed information under "youth" scholarships.

4) Start thinking out of the box,
you can do a crowd-funding project, like Indiegogo or Rockethub or any one of those where you set a goal for a certain amount to be done by a certain date. For those listed crowd-funding platforms, if you don't reach that amount, you still get the money that people submitted. I would think proposing to create a lighting design project with borrowed equipment could be a viable project and generate some capital. You just figure out what rewards you would give your contributers... do something simple for the project to earn the money and make your monetary goal, this would be something that would do now. Check out other crowd-funding platforms to see what might be possible. I did a month-long Kickstarter project in Oct. 2012 for a juvenile fiction Christmas book The Night the Animals Talked I had written... I had a goal of $2000 and received $2500. I published the book with 2 original songs and was able to fulfill all my rewards by Christmas 2012.

These are just a few ideas... but there will be more on the internet.
Wishing you a great career in lighting.. wise choice, by the way... you can do musical venues, concerts as well.. all theatres need a good lighting designer. Smart decision.
Best of luck.
Regards

Patricia "Trish" Barry Rumble,
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Main Street Chamber, WIVLA, JACL Houston & 36th Division Houston Chapter,
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