For the 2024-2025 academic year, the Dane G. Hansen Foundation will offer scholarships in four categories to students from 26 Northwest Kansas counties. Eligible applicants include those from accredited high schools, registered independent schools, private schools, or home schools in these counties:
Cheyenne, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Jewell, Lincoln, Logan, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Ottawa, Phillips, Rawlins, Republic, Rooks, Russell, Saline, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Thomas, Trego, and Wallace.
Scholarships available for students who will graduate in the current academic year are:
Seven Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarships with annual stipends of $10,000 renewable for three additional years if criteria established by the Scholarship Committee are met. Recipients must attend an accredited four-year public, private, or church-related Kansas college or university.
Thirty-five Hansen Scholar Scholarships with annual stipends of $6,500 renewable for three additional years if criteria established by the Scholarship Committee are met. Recipients must attend an accredited four-year public, private, or church-related Kansas college or university.
Seventy Hansen Student Scholarships with annual stipends of $4,000 renewable for one additional year if criteria established by the Scholarship Committee are met. Recipients must attend an accredited community, public, private, or church-related college or university in Kansas.
To qualify for the above scholarships, a student must have taken the ACT test and have a composite score of 23 or higher, and have at least a 3.50 GPA (un-weighted). The student should be an active participant in extracurricular school and community activities, display good citizenship, leadership, and moral integrity.
Students planning to enter the competition for Leaders of Tomorrow, Hansen Scholar, or Hansen Student scholarships must register at their school and take the qualifying test at locations to be announced. Information on all scholarships has been sent to qualifying area schools. Tentative test dates have been set for September 11th and 12th, 2024.
One hundred Hansen Career and Technical Education Scholarships with annual stipends of $4,000 renewable for one additional year if criteria established by the Scholarship Committee are met. Career and Technical Education Scholarships are available to encourage high school seniors who seek competence through career training. An applicant for the Career and Technical Education Scholarship must complete an application form that is available from the high school counselor, or it can be downloaded at www.danehansenfoundation.org.
The Hansen Foundation is in its 50th year of service to the young people of Northwest Kansas through the insight and generosity of the late Dane G. Hansen of Logan, Kansas. The book DANE GRAY HANSEN: TITAN OF NORTHWEST KANSAS by Billy M. Jones (1962) describes Dane G. Hansen and his contributions to Northwest Kansas.
