Open all year to October 21st annually.
Each year ten I Learn Scholarships are awarded and announced
at Down Country’s Rhinestones & Rodeo Art Auction & Dance in
February. The scholarships provide 5 years of national conference
funding @ $2000.00 per year with a maximum of $10,000.00 over
5 years per scholarship-the initial conference is chosen by the
Board of Down Country, however, subsequent conferences are
to be in the recipients area of interest pending approval by the
Down Country Board-ALL Tri-State area residents (family, therapist,
teachers, administrators & community members are eligible)-
Recipients MUST PAY FORWARD what they learn!!!
Down Country’s I Learn scholarship program has sent over
500 Tri-State area residents (professionals & families) to
national/international conferences such as: the Tourette
Syndrome Association, American Academy of Cerebral Palsy
& Developmental Medicine, Missouri Assistive Technology
Conference, Autism Intervention conference, National Association
of State Special Educators, National Down syndrome Congress
Convention, International Reading Association, Assistive
Technology Industry Association Conference, The Young Child
With Special Needs Conference focus on Autism & Developmental
Challenges, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Ed Tech
Teacher Conference, CHADD Annual International Conference
on ADHD, the National Association for the Education of Young
Children, Closing the Gap Conference on Technology, Wired
Differently, and MORE!!! All I Learn scholarship recipients are
require to PAY FORWARD here in the Tri-States what they learn in
order to maintain their scholarships which run for 5 years.