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And did you know that if you attend Juniata College in Pennsylvania, you could get a scholarship for being left-handed

The Beckley Scholarship gives between $1,000 and $1,500 to the left-handed student with the best grades each year

According to a former director of student financial planning, the school doesn't even check whether applicants are left-handed

Very trusting. And that's the first of many weird scholarships I'm going to tell you about today

The Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation gives out a scholarship each year to people

entering or already participating in a course of study related to vacuum coating technology

at an accredited institution. Vacuum coating, by the way, is when a thin coating is distributed onto something in a

low pressure vacuum. You can apply for the Chick Evans Caddy Scholarship if you've been a golf caddy for two years

or longer. The Gilbert Roller Fund provides up to $10,000 for a person with an interest in the parapsychological

like seances or poltergeist activity. Only graduate students are eligible for the National Potato Council Scholarship

It gives out $10,000 annually to someone who's conducting research for the benefit of the

potato industry. Does my quest for the best French fry count? The website ScholarshipExperts runs some interesting essay contests for scholarships The Zombie Apocalypse Scholarship gives to the person who writes the best plan to survive a zombie apocalypse

And the fifth month scholarship is for $1,500, and it's given to the person who writes

the best essay about the number five. At Carnegie Mellon, there's a $7,000 scholarship for a bagpipe student, which subsidizes kilts

The SAMI program gave scholarships to student athletes up until 2012. SAMI stands for Scholar-Athlete Milk Mustache of the Year

So the athletes had to be milk drinkers. The winners of the National Marbles Tournament receive scholarships ranging from $500 to $2,000

You must be between 8 to 14 years old to enter the tournament. Each year, the Michigan Llama Association gives a scholarship to a member of the association

or the child of a member. The Top Turkey Scholarship Contest is held by the Culinary Institute of America

The winner gets $10,000 for writing the best recipe for Thanksgiving leftovers

Speaking of birds, the Chicken Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest gives out a scholarship

to, you guessed it, the person with the best duck call. The Starfleet Academy, aka the International Star Trek Fan Association, gives out annual

scholarships for things like engineering, medicine, business, and the arts. At the University of North Carolina Greensboro, the Alice McCarver Ratchford Scholarship requires

you to be a single female living on campus without a car The National Grocers Association gives out an Asparagus Club Scholarship to an undergrad or graduate student who studying something like business or food management with the intent of a career in the grocery industry

If your last name is Zulp, you're Catholic, and you attend Loyola University Chicago

you're eligible for the Zulp Scholarship. And something tells me you'll be the only one applying

To win the $20,000 American Fire Sprinkler Association Scholarship, you must answer a

multiple choice quiz on fire sprinklers. The Bob Guernsey Scholarship Awards are given out to excellent paintball players

The National Make It With Wool Contest gives out three scholarships every year between

$1,000 and $2,000. The winners sewed the best garments out of wool

In order to qualify for the Tall Club's International Scholarship, men have to be at least 6'2"

and women must be over 5'10". Zinch.com gives out a weekly $1,000 scholarship

They give out different prompts each week, and applicants must answer in two to three sentences

The National Gay Pilots Association gives out scholarships. You must be an aspiring pilot who has contributed to the LGBT community

Duck Brand provides $10,000 of college funds for the student who makes the best duct tape prom dress

The contest is called Stuck at Prom. Speaking of ducks, the first place winner in the Junior Duck Stamp Contest wins a $1,000 scholarship

The contest involves drawing a 9x12 inch North American duck swan or goose Wholesale Halloween Costumes has a scholarship contest Every year it changes but recently it was a pumpkin carving contest There are multiple foundations that give out scholarships to young skateboarders like

the Go Skateboarding Foundation. In 2004, the National Christmas Tree Association held a scholarship contest called Help Santa

Find the Perfect Real Christmas Tree. The winner got $10,000 for her family's Christmas

tree in Greensboro, NC. Lake Erie College has a twin scholarship that allows two twins to attend the school for

the tuition cost of one. The school claims that this eases the financial burden of parents

with twins, who would otherwise have to pay at least half a million dollars in tuition

I feel like they're rounding up. There's an FBI Common Knowledge Scholarship for $250. To win, you take a quiz that tests

how much you know about the FBI. Finally, I return to the salon to tell you that the winner of the annual GIF's Most Creative

Sandwich Contest receives a $25,000 college fund. The most recent winner created the crunchy

creamy, dreamy finger sandwich, including ladyfingers, heavy cream, thin pretzels, mascarpone cheese, and of course, Jif peanut butter