The American Indian Graduate Magazine is Seeking Stories and Advertisers for Spring 2015 Issue! Highlighting Federal Employees and Careers!

The magazine is published twice per year, spring and fall, and boasts a targeted readership of over 16,000 American Indian and Alaska Native students, graduates, professionals and organizations.  

AIGC Alumni:

Do you have a current job or internship with the federal government? Would you like to share your story with the readers of The American Indian Graduate magazine?  Please contact linda@aigcs.org.
 

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HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS!
Scholarship Opportunities 

On-line applications are now available! 

Gates Millennium Scholars Program:

• The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program selects 1,000 talented students, each year, to receive a good-through-graduation scholarship to use at any college or university of their choice. 
• Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the program was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education in any discipline area of interest.
• The American Indian Graduate Center Scholars (AIGCS) is the American Indian/Alaska Native partner for the GMS scholarship.
• The deadline to apply is January 14, 2015. For more information, please click here. 

The All Native American High School 

Academic Team (ANAHSAT):

• The AIGC All Native American High School Academic Team (ANAHSAT) honors ten American Indian and Alaska Native high school students. 
• Students will be evaluated on outstanding original academic, artistic or leadership endeavor, as described in his or her own words. 
• The deadline to apply is March 6, 2015, for more information, please click here.

The Accenture Native American 

Scholarship Program:

• Each academic year, Accenture selects students who demonstrate character, personal merit and commitment to the American Indian community, locally and/or nationally, demonstrated through leadership in school, civic and extracurricular activities, academic achievement and motivation to serve and succeed.
• Student must be seeking a degree and career in fields of study including: various engineering, computer science, operations management, management, finance, marketing and other business oriented fields
• For more information, please click here.

Magazine Story Highlight AIGC Alumna from 1990's   Anything is Possible  by Victoria Matt, M.D.

I'm from Northern Arizona, the Navajo/Dine' Nation, inspired to achieve by my grandmother and speaking only the Navajo language, until I started school. In high school, I was involved in sports activities and improved my attitude towards academic achievement, after my freshmen year, when I realized an education was important to escape the poverty that exists on the reservation. I was my high school's valedictorian. I was very lucky that I had a very supportive family and a grandmother who encouraged me to attend college despite financial limitations, distance from home and culture. 

I was very fortunate to be accepted by the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona so I could remain somewhat close to home. I graduated with a Bachelor's of Science degree, from the College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Arizona.  I attended Harvard University and earned a Master's degree in 1993, then on to medical school at Tufts University, also in Boston, Massachusetts, where I received my medical degree (M.D.) in 1997.  I applied for an orthopaedic surgery residency, as that is the area of medicine I most enjoyed.

I am extremely thankful to the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC), for their financial support with grants/scholarships every year I applied, from the start of graduate school in 1991 to the end of medical school in 1997.  It is the tremendous financial support received from AIGC that helped pave the way for my success.  I am forever grateful to AIGC and their contributors/donators, for helping me reach my goal.  Anything is possible with hard-work, persistence and the support of family, individuals, instructors and organizations, such as AIGC.