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There are many scholarships for Overland Park students. If you are searching for scholarships for a particular high school located in Overland Park, please select the appropriate school from the list below. The scholarship database contains scholarships for Overland Park students in the following categories:

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Scholarships360 "No Essay" Scholarship
Deadline: Jun 30, 2025
$10,000
The Scholarships360 $10,000 “No Essay” Scholarship is open to all students who want some extra help paying for their education. Whether you are a high school student who hopes to go to college, a graduate student who’s in a master’s program, or an adult learner who wants to return to school, you are eligible for our no essay scholarship.This scholarship...
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Common App Scholarship
Deadline: Nov 30, 2024
$2,000
To encourage students to spend more time preparing for the Common App, Scholarship Guidance has created an annual scholarship to reward students.To be eligible for the Scholarship Guidance "Common App Scholarship" a student must:A) Be in Grade 11 or Grade 12B) Be attending college or university no later than October 1, 2026.C) Have achieved a GPA of 2.5 or greater...
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Thiel Fellowship
Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
$100,000
Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who want to build new things. Thiel Fellows skip or stop out of college to receive a $100,000 grant and support from the Thiel Foundation's network of founders, investors, and scientists.What is the Fellowship?The Thiel Fellowship is a two-year, $100,000...
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Path to Pro Scholarship Program
Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
$2,000
The Home Depot Foundation works to improve the homes and lives of U.S. veterans, train skilled tradespeople to fill the labor gap and support communities impacted by natural disasters. The Foundation has pledged to invest $50 million in training the next generation of skilled tradespeople and bridging the opportunity gap through its Path to Pro program.We want to help create...
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Roger W. Kahn Scholarship
Deadline: Dec 31, 2024
$10,000
The Roger W. Kahn Scholarship was created to honor the memory of Roger Kahn (1907–1962) and his passion for aviation and entertainment. Kahn spent the latter part of his career at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation as a test pilot and then managed the technical service and sales division. In the 1940s, Kahn was actively involved with the Institute of the...
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For School Specific Scholarships, select one of the schools below:

Blue Valley Middle Blue Valley North High Blue Valley Northwest High Blue Valley Southwest High School Blue Valley West High Blue Valley West High School Harmony Middle Lakewood Middle School Overland Trail Middle Oxford Middle Pleasant Ridge Middle School

Overland Park City, Missouri is a suburb of the larger city of Kansas City and is situated within Johnson County. The city of Overland Park is surrounded by the cities of Olathe, Lenexa, Leawood and Prairie Village. It is Kansas City's largest suburb.

The founder of Overland Park was William B. Strang Jr., who established the city during 1905. He envisioned communities of subdivisions that were self-sustaining and "park-like". Among these was Overland Park, a successful experiment that saw ongoing growth up to its incorporation as a city in 1960. The city of Overland Park boomed throughout the 1980s as the number of inhabitants and companies skyrocketed. By the end of that decade, the population was more than 100,000 people.

Overland Park and Kansas City have lots of cultural attractions to provide guests. The Nerman Museum has the largest collection of contemporary art in the Midwest. The New Theatre Restaurant is a famed place which has been referred to as "the best dinner theatre in the country." The Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens provides a stunning series of gardens accessible by trails on a 300-acre place that consists of a children's discovery garden and waterfalls. The Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead is a favorite with children who could take a ride on a horse-drawn wagon, see farm animals and tour an early-twentieth century replica of a farmhouse.

Overland Park has 72 city parks totaling about 7.3 km2 of space. Lots of parks have facilities for biking and hiking, playgrounds, sand volleyball, tennis courts and basketball courts. A few have shelters which are reservable.

The city has the largest mall in the region, the Oak Park Mall. It features more than 200 stores and is the biggest mall in the states of Missouri and Kansas. The city of Overland park is the home of Sprint Nextel world head office, that employs around 18,500 people and occupies 1 km