At the start of February I在开始的2月 announced宣布 my desire to organize a scholarship through my site.我的愿望，组织一次奖学金，通过我的网站。 A little more than a month later, things are really going strong.在一个多一个月后，事情真的是强劲。 Here’s where things now stand–still working things out:这里的东西，如现在市面上仍在工作的东西出来：

The Idea: A contest to propose the best new ideas for using new media, the internet, and technology to improve the college admissions process and/or higher education marketing in general. 构想：一个竞赛，以提出最佳的新思路，利用新媒体，网际网路，以及科技，以改善高校招生程序和/或高等教育营销的一般问题。

The contest will be sponsored (at least in part) by some of those same agents most want to hear about the ideas for reform and who are looking for innovative solutions.竞赛将获赞助（至少部分）是由一些同样的代理商，最希望听到关于改革思路，并正在寻找有创意的解决办法。 They’ll have direct exposure to the ideas so that they could be better implemented!他们将有直接接触的想法，使他们能更好地执行！ After a winner (winners? still fundraising) is chosen, their proposal / essay and other top ideas will be put online for everyone to see and learn, leading to a great dialogue about ways to make things better for both students and the college / marketing forces who want to engage them.经过冠军（赢家？仍在筹款）选定后，他们的建议/征文及其他高层的想法随即会在网上给大家看和学习，导致了伟大的对话方式，使两地的学生和学院/营销势力有意聘请他们。

Participants: Current high school students, but also recent high school grads who are now undergraduates: students who have recent experience with the 与会者：目前高中学生，而且最近的高中毕业生们现在本科生：学生如最近的经验与

The Prize: Cash towards college education! 奖项：现金对大专以上学历！ I have been working hard over the last month not just with midterms but also trying to drum up support for this scholarship idea.我一直在努力，在过去的一个月，不仅与midterms而且还试图游说各方支持这个奖学金的想法。 My original target was to get ~$500 from a wide range of individuals and organizations in higher education and college admissions fields as well as general sponsorship and donation (technology companies, anyone?).我原来的目标，是得到〜 500元，从众多的个人和组织，在高等教育和高校招生领域以及一般的赞助和捐赠（科技公司，任何人？ ） 。 We’re getting close to that target!我们正在越来越接近这一目标！ But wait, things get better…但等待，事情变得更好…

The other day, I was very happy to learn that I had just won a brand new另一天，我非常高兴地获悉，我刚赢得了一个崭新 Toshiba x205 东芝x205 laptop in a recent笔记本电脑在最近一次 Gizmodo contest gizmodo竞赛 ! ！ This is a really nice laptop, worth $1400, which would definitely make a great addition to someone’s dorm room.这是一个非常好的笔记本电脑，价值1400美元，这将肯定是一个很大的，除了一个人的寝室里。 17″ screen, 4 speakers and subwoofer, 250 GB hard drive, nice Nvidia GeForce 8700M graphics card… I know college laptop costs can be pretty significant, so hopefully this could help blunt that for whoever wins. 17 "屏， 4扬声器和重低音扬声器， 250 GB硬盘，尼斯的NVIDIA GeForce 8700米绘图卡… …我知道学院笔记本电脑的成本可以相当显着的，所以我希望这个建议能够帮助钝说，无论谁入主白宫。 Hopefully we will be able to find it a happy home soon!但愿我们能够找到它快乐的家庭尽快！ I’ll have more details when it arrives at home in a week or two.我将有更多的细节时，它抵在家里或2周。

Thanks to Toshiba for indirectly sponsoring it… I had been trying to lobby other laptop manufacturers but so far have been unable to get in touch with the right people.感谢东芝公司为间接赞助它… …我一直在努力游说其他笔记型电脑制造商，但至今一直无法取得联系合适的人。 The Lenovo VP for USA was supposed to come to Yale this past weekend, but had to cancel–my plan had been to corner him and ask.联想副总裁，为美国本来是要来耶鲁这过去的周末，但不得不取消-我的计划已经到角落，他并要求。 In any event, I am absolutely still interested in looking for more partners, and if I had more to give out we could offer it to more people and really expand things.在任何情况下，我绝对有兴趣仍然在寻找更多的合作伙伴，如果我有更多的让出去，我们可以提供给更多的人，真的，扩大东西。

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So!如此！ I now have a laptop and a few hundred dollars cash ready to give away, and I’m pretty psyched.我现在有一个笔记本电脑和几百元现金准备放弃，我真是太漂亮psyched 。 It makes me want to set my sights higher, but to do that I need more help from my readers (and people they know…).这令我要设置我的目光较高，但这样做，我需要更多的帮助，从我的读者（和人民，他们知道… … ） 。 So please forward around my request for more help in organizing this scholarship, and let me know if you want to get involved or if you have any leads on people who might want to get involved.所以请围绕着我的要求，为更多的帮助，在举办此奖学金，并让我知道，如果你想涉足或者，如果您有任何线索的人，可能想介入此事。 Either send me an e-mail at sam [at] samjackson [dot] org or use the要么给我发了一封电子邮件，在山姆[在] samjackson [斑点]组织或者使用 contact form联系方式 (or comment here)! （或者在这里评论） ！ Still hammering out more details and will solicit some prompts and start working on framing the questions for scholarship applicants soon, and things will definitely keep growing as I add participants.还有锤击更多细节，并会征求一些提示，并开始着手制定有关问题作奖学金申请在即，事情一定会继续成长，因为，我想补充一点参与者。

For would-be sponsors: This is a really great opportunity to give something (a very small donation, even!) while getting a lot (of good publicity, exposure, and of course, useful insight and new ideas). 对于想成为赞助商：这是一个真正伟大的机会，给东西（一个很小的捐赠，甚至！ ） ，而获得了很多（良好的舆论宣传，曝光，当然，有益的见解和新思路） 。 It’s all going to a good cause and so I highly recommend getting involved!它的一切会以一个良好的事业，所以我强烈推荐插手！ Alternately, if you feel you don’t want to give money to any random student talking about college admissions, and would rather give that money just to me , I still have另外，如果你觉得你不想把钱交给任何随机学生谈到高校招生，而宁可将钱只是为了我 ，我还有 open advertising inventory公开广告清单 for the new few months, so let me know.为新的数月内，所以让我知道。