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    <Title>Student Photo Contest</Title>
    <Tagline>Submit photos from your world travels!</Tagline>
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          <div><strong>Winners will: </strong></div>
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          <div>Deadline: Oct. 31st <br>
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    <Summary>The Center for Global Engagement is happy to announce a photo contest to showcase student photography from around the world! We welcome students to submit photos in up to 3 categories:        ALL...</Summary>
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    <Title>Freeman-Asia Scholarship</Title>
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          <p>Interested in studying abroad in Asia? Check out the Freeman-Asia Scholarship! The Freeman-Asia Scholarship provides up to $5,000 for a semester abroad and can help fund tuition, airfare, living costs, local transportation and books. The student deadline is October 20th, 2016. If you have any questions check out their website <a href="http://www.iie.org/Freeman-ASIA" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://www.iie.org/Freeman-ASIA</a><span> or email the Study Abroad Office (<a href="mailto:sao@umbc.edu">sao@umbc.edu</a>). </span></p>
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    <Summary>Interested in studying abroad in Asia? Check out the Freeman-Asia Scholarship! The Freeman-Asia Scholarship provides up to $5,000 for a semester abroad and can help fund tuition, airfare, living...</Summary>
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    <Title>InternationalStudent.com Travel Video Contest</Title>
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    <Summary>Students who want to study outside of their home country (or who currently are) can create and submit a short video to InternationalStudent.com Travel Video Contest for a chance to win $4000. ...</Summary>
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    <Title>Two study abroad scholarships for New Zealand!</Title>
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          <p>1. Generation Study Abroad Excellence and Travel Awards:
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          <p>2. GoOverseas.com Scholarship to Study Abroad in New Zealand:</p>
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    <Summary>1. Generation Study Abroad Excellence and Travel Awards: http://www.enz.govt.nz/our-services/scholarships/generation-study-abroad-excellence-and-travel-awards        2. GoOverseas.com Scholarship...</Summary>
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    <Title>New Zealand is announcing even more scholarships!</Title>
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          <h6>Generation Study Abroad Excellence and Travel Awards: <a href="http://www.enz.govt.nz/our-services/scholarships/generation-study-abroad-excellence-and-travel-awards">http://www.enz.govt.nz/our-services/scholarships/generation-study-abroad-excellence-and-travel-awards</a>
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