Princeton, NJ, February 8, 2016 ― Choose New Jersey, Inc. last month launched Smart Students Choose New Jersey, a scholarship and internship program that will recognize the best and brightest students in Newark and Camden who choose to attend a New Jersey institute of higher learning.
As a business community member, your company can participate in this pilot program by either sponsoring the program financially or by offering a paid internship to a student in the summer of 2017.
Smart Students Choose New Jersey is unique as it offers the opportunity for students to work at top businesses and organizations from around the Garden State — from Fortune 500 companies, to labor organizations and small businesses across a variety of industries and sectors.
The pilot program will reward the highest academically ranked graduating senior at each of Newark’s 33 public, private and charter high schools and Camden’s 11 public, private and charter high schools who choose to attend a New Jersey college or university.
The program will offer a one-time scholarship of $2,000 and a paid summer internship opportunity each year over three years.
To learn more about the program and how to be involved, visit www.choosenj.com/smart or contact Cathy Scangarella, Choose New Jersey’s Senior Vice President of Development, at 609-297-2203 or cscangarella@choosenj.com.
To access the program’s brochure, click here.
Choose New Jersey, Inc. is a privately funded non-profit organization, supported by leading business, labor and higher education institutions in the State. Choose New Jersey, Inc., is charged with encouraging and nurturing economic growth throughout New Jersey with a focus on making the state’s most distressed cities engines for growth and opportunity.
Through marketing, business attraction and lead generation activities, Choose New Jersey markets New Jersey as a premiere business location to both domestic and international businesses.
Choose New Jersey is one of four elements of the Partnership for Action (PFA), which is led by Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno, and also includes the New Jersey Business Action Center, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, and the Office of the Secretary of Higher Education.