At the start of February I在開始的2月 announced宣布 my desire to organize a scholarship through my site.我的願望，組織一次獎學金，通過我的網站。 A little more than a month later, things are really going strong.在一個多一個月後，事情真的是強勁。 Here’s where things now stand–still working things out:這裡的東西，如現在市面上仍在工作的東西出來：

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. 構想：一個競賽，以提出最佳的新思路，利用新媒體，網際網路，以及科技，以改善高校招生程序和/或高等教育營銷的一般問題。

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.競賽將獲贊助（至少部分）是由一些同樣的代理商，最希望聽到關於改革思路，並正在尋找有創意的解決辦法。 They’ll have direct exposure to the ideas so that they could be better implemented!他們將有直接接觸的想法，使他們能更好地執行！ 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.經過冠軍（贏家？仍在籌款）選定後，他們的建議/徵文及其他高層的想法隨即會在網上給大家看和學習，導致了偉大的對話方式，使兩地的學生和學院/營銷勢力有意聘請他們。

Participants: Current high school students, but also recent high school grads who are now undergraduates: students who have recent experience with the 與會者：目前高中學生，而且最近的高中畢業生們現在本科生：學生如最近的經驗與

The Prize: Cash towards college education! 獎項：現金對大專以上學歷！ 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，在過去的一個月，不僅與midterms而且還試圖遊說各方支持這個獎學金的想法。 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?).我原來的目標，是得到〜 500元，從眾多的個人和組織，在高等教育和高校招生領域以及一般的贊助和捐贈（科技公司，任何人？ ） 。 We’re getting close to that target!我們正在越來越接近這一目標！ But wait, things get better…但等待，事情變得更好…

The other day, I was very happy to learn that I had just won a brand new另一天，我非常高興地獲悉，我剛贏得了一個嶄新 Toshiba x205 東芝x205 laptop in a recent筆記本電腦在最近一次 Gizmodo contest gizmodo競賽 ! ！ This is a really nice laptop, worth $1400, which would definitely make a great addition to someone’s dorm room.這是一個非常好的筆記本電腦，價值1400美元，這將肯定是一個很大的，除了一個人的寢室裡。 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揚聲器和重低音揚聲器， 250 GB硬盤，尼斯的NVIDIA GeForce 8700米繪圖卡… …我知道學院筆記本電腦的成本可以相當顯著的，所以我希望這個建議能夠幫助鈍說，無論誰入主白宮。 Hopefully we will be able to find it a happy home soon!但願我們能夠找到它快樂的家庭盡快！ I’ll have more details when it arrives at home in a week or two.我將有更多的細節時，它抵在家裡或2週。

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.感謝東芝公司為間接贊助它… …我一直在努力遊說其他筆記型電腦製造商，但至今一直無法取得聯繫合適的人。 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.聯想副總裁，為美國本來是要來耶魯這過去的週末，但不得不取消-我的計劃已經到角落，他並要求。 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.在任何情況下，我絕對有興趣仍然在尋找更多的合作夥伴，如果我有更多的讓出去，我們可以提供給更多的人，真的，擴大東西。

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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.我現在有一個筆記本電腦和幾百元現金準備放棄，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…).這令我要設置我的目光較高，但這樣做，我需要更多的幫助，從我的讀者（和人民，他們知道… … ） 。 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.所以請圍繞著我的要求，為更多的幫助，在舉辦此獎學金，並讓我知道，如果你想涉足或者，如果您有任何線索的人，可能想介入此事。 Either send me an e-mail at sam [at] samjackson [dot] org or use the要么給我發了一封電子郵件，在山姆[在] samjackson [斑點]組織或者使用 contact form聯繫方式 (or comment here)! （或者在這裡評論） ！ 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.還有錘擊更多細節，並會徵求一些提示，並開始著手制定有關問題作獎學金申請在即，事情一定會繼續成長，因為，我想補充一點參與者。

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). 對於想成為贊助商：這是一個真正偉大的機會，給東西（一個很小的捐贈，甚至！ ） ，而獲得了很多（良好的輿論宣傳，曝光，當然，有益的見解和新思路） 。 It’s all going to a good cause and so I highly recommend getting involved!它的一切會以一個良好的事業，所以我強烈推薦插手！ 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，如果你覺得你不想把錢交給任何隨機學生談到高校招生，而寧可將錢只是為了我 ，我還有 open advertising inventory公開廣告清單 for the new few months, so let me know.為新的數月內，所以讓我知道。