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Are you ready for some football?

I have been starved for football action for months! Fortunately for me my son Barrett was born on February 1. That saved me. The little mans arrival made the pain of a Patriots Super Bowl loss two days later more tolerable and allowed for the past 6 months to fly by! But enough about me. Let’s talk about my fellow Patriots fans!

Did you know the Patriots offer a Write On scholarship for students 13-18 years old? The scholarship is open to any legal resident of one of the New England States (ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI).

To enter, simply write between 500-750 words about the Patriots most recent game. After every four game stretch on the Patriots schedule, a first place winner of $5,000, two second place winners of $2,500, and six $1,000 winners will receive scholarship money. In addition, at the conclusion of the season, all previous winners will be eligible to win the $15,000 grand prize, $10,000 runner-up prize or the $5,000 honorable mention prize. (Click here) for more details.

Did you see the ZoomPanel $1,000 Scholarship? Its open to just the first 1,000 ScholarshipPoints members and then its closing. It will be the easiest $1,000 college scholarship ever for somebody and your odds are better than ever.

All you have to do is register for ZoomPanel (a points-for-surveys site like us) and then complete a short welcome survey. You’ll get entered for the $1,000 plus get 25 Scholarship Points after the scholarship fills up.The whole thing takes 10 minutes and once we have 1,000 entrants it over!

To register to win you must complete the following 2 steps:

1. Complete the registration with ZoomPanel
2. Activate your registration by completing the short survey they will email you afterwards (may take a few minutes to get it)

They’ll send us a list of the 1,000 members who completed both steps and we’ll choose a random winner and then mail everybody their code for 25 points.

Want to know more about ZoomPanel first?

ZoomPanel is a community of consumers who share their opinions and insights about companies’ products and services by participating in market research studies. They award members with points for completing surveys which they may use for popular movies, music and more. Membership is free, and if you change your mind about wanting to participate in ZoomPanel, you can cancel at any time.

We wouldn’t recommend them if they weren’t offering a sweet deal for you. We all signed up ourselves!

Review the ScholarshipPoints and ZoomPanel Scholarship Terms & Conditions

People have been asking me lately what the deal is with Professor Plastic. Basically here’s the thing- he and I are exact opposites and I have no idea what his name means. I embody all that is good and just in this world and he is pretty much evil and creepy. We’re opposites in many other areas too like I have hair, I have friends, I live in a house, I have 10 toes, I get paid to do my job- and I could go on. Him, not so much. He is the Joker to my Batman, the Lex Luthor to my Superman, the Green Goblin to my Batman the Anakin to my Obi Wan.

So why do we work together you might ask? Well, Professor just came upstairs to the office one day from the soup kitchen downstairs and sat down at a desk. For awhile we let him eat his soup and didn’t bother him except to spray him with Lysol when the fruit flies got thick. After awhile we decided he had to start doing something to at least pay for the Lysol if he was going to be here so we let him start helping with Scholarship Points. Back then the program was very small but now that the program is blowing up- so isn’t Professor’s ego. Now he thinks he’s running the show! I had to bring in Sally to keep track of him. She sits across from him with a spray bottle and when he gets out of line she sends a jet of water into his face. Professor hates that.

Still, his oddness is somewhat endearing. It may be a bit of Stockholm Syndrome (look it up) but I find his shenanigans and personality interesting to have around and I hope you enjoy his bizarre Wednesday trivia. The goal is to make it fun to earn chances at free college scholarships. Not everybody can win so if everybody at least has fun then it helps me meet my goals.

I think we’re heading for a Guitar Hero dual. Comment “ROCK ON” if you’d like to see me take him down!

Hey Pointers this is a blog that can help you so pay attention. Did you know that I have a MySpace profile you can join? On my MySpace page there is a code for 10 points and on Fridays I usually post a code on my MySpace blog for more points. Only my friends can see it and it isn’t available on this site! So check me out and also let me know what you want me to add to make it even cooler (if that’s even possible). http://www.myspace.com/pointsteam

Starting with May’s drawing we are now going to give away prizes to the runners-up. You see each month we draw three names in case we can’t get in touch with the first name we draw. I always feel bad not doing anything with the names of the runners-up to let them know how close they were. Well now we’re going to give the first runner-up a $15 iTunes gift certificate and the second runner-up a $10 iTunes gift certificate! You will get them sent to you via email. This month the winners are:

• · $1,000 Scholarship Winner: Kay Ritchie
• · 1^st Runner-up iTunes Winner: Andrew Trimble
• · 2^nd Runner-up iTunes Winner: Alexander Myton

Finally we’ve settled on a regular pattern of points activities and they will be posted every Monday, Wednesday and Friday so be sure to check back. Not all activities will be left up for a long time so its important that you check frequently.

- Point Guard

There is a new Scholarship Point activity up today I hope you jump all over like the spider monkeys that you are. I’m trying to test out an online degree search tool where you can request information from the program of your choice. With the increasing popularity and acceptance on online degrees you all ought to at least find out about them. Imagine graduating from college, getting a job and getting an MBA online instead of spending more time poor and scavenging for scholarship money.

Swing on over Tarzan and check out the survey activity page to give it a whirl.

Savings are important for keeping you out of debt and planning for the future whether that’s college, a car, a wedding or a home. Starting to save as early on as possibly is a smart idea even if you only save a tiny amount because over a long period of time that adds up. That’s why we’re offering 50 free scholarship points to you if you sign up for an ING Direct Orange Savings account.

An Orange Savings account is free, pays you higher interest than the typical bank for your money, is online, works with your current bank automatically and only requires a nominal deposit (like $1.00). We can’t think of any reason why students shouldn’t have one and so we’re encouraging you to start saving with this promotion. I even signed up for one myself before agreeing to give you the link!

Sign up now for an Orange Savings Account.

To receive your 50-point code: Send an email to members@scholarshipoints.com with ORANGE in the subject line and the last 4 digits of your account number in the email for verification. Your new account number will be displayed on the confirmation page after you sign up.

At ScholarshipPoints.com our job is to gain as many active members as possible. The more active members we have the more we are able to give away in free scholarships. A year ago we gave away $250 per month and had just 3,500 members. We’ve been growing quickly in 2008 and so we now we give away $1,000 per month plus two $10,000 scholarships this year.

With your help we can push the free college scholarships even higher. One of the most important things for us to do is to bring in more web traffic. Links to our site from high school and college websites are a giant help to us. If your school offers a link to free college scholarships or financial aid resources for students we would all benefit from getting a link posted from there to our website. If you accomplish that, send us an email with the page the link is on and we just might be so happy we’ll give you a special thank you code for extra free scholarship points.

Here is some recommended text for an email you might send:

Dear (name),

I am a student at (your school) and I’m also a member of a website that gives away free college scholarships to students every month. Its a really cool idea, they ask us to take short surveys and look at free educational guides in return for points which we then redeem for entries. They just gave away $10,000! It would be great if you could add a link to them on our website so that other students at (your school) could have access to these free scholarships.

The link is: http://www.ScholarshipPoints.com

Thank you,

(your name)

I just put up two surveys which will help us improve the program and score you 15 points each! To my amazement, we’ve already had more than 10 responses in only 10 minutes! You guys are good! Here are the surveys. Take them now. Win Free Scholarships.

Scholarship Points Member Communications Survey

Point Activities Survey

I’ve also been getting some great emails abut the program and we’ve had a few forum posts. Keep up the good work. The more you all contribute and interact the more time we’ll spend on the program and the more  Free Scholarship money we’ll be able to make available to you all!

Phew. February was a busy month around here. We had three winners to choose. We had the February $250 Scholarship winner (now $1,000 Scholarship) to choose, we had the $10,000 scholarship winner to choose and we had the refer-a-friend champion iPod winner to crown champion. I am pleased to announce we have confirmations from all 3 winners so if you were not contacted I’m sorry but you didn’t get it this time.

I don’t yet have all the information for the 2 randomly drawn free college scholarship winners but when I get it from them I’ll be posting it on the Winners Page. I do have all the infor for the refer-a-friend champion however and a shiny new iPod Touch is on its way to Chris Romanowicz at the University of Iowa. Congratulations Chris!

A few of you might be saying, “hey, I referred a zillion friend’s how did anybody beat me?”. Come on, we have time stamps on entries and access to all the data for every friend you referred. I took several days to go through it all looking for cheaters so friends like asdfasdf asddfas with an email address like 124rwertq@yahoo.com got you disqualified and we stated that would happen in the rules.

With any luck I’ll be releasing the names of the other 2 February winners this week but hey we’re halfway to the March free scholarship drawing so get going and win the $1,000 would you? Its being sponsored by www.FafsaOnline.com so go fill out your FAFSA as well.