MAKING A-G REAL
MULTIMEDIA SCHOLARSHIP

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Calling all creative youth in Oakland!

Artists, filmmakers, curators, visionaries, and all creatives are invited to apply for Marcus Foster Education Institute’s Making A-G Real Multimedia Scholarship.

  • The application for the Making A-G Real Multimedia is closed. Please check back November 1, 2023 for the 2023-2024 application. Voting for this year's submissions will begin April 21, 2023.

  • Check out these examples of past Making A-G Real submissions!

    Enasia McElvaine
    2018 McClymonds graduate
    • Submission 1
    • Artist Statement
    - Student Supports

    Sophia Hawkins-Harbor
    • Submission 2
    • Artist Statement
    - Quality Teachers & Teaching

    Xochitl Diaz Suarez, 2021 Coliseum College Prep graduate
    • Submission 3
    • Artist Statement
    - School Safety, Culture & Climate

  • Making A-G Real awardees are selected through a public, community voting process and from judging by members of the OUSD All City Council governing board.

    To bring the youth’s ideas to a wider audience, community members are invited to vote on submissions.

    Stay tuned for voting period.

ABOUT THE AWARD

We know that in order to create a world with educational systems that truly uplift the health and wealth of the communities they serve, we must listen to the people closest to the problem: the students! Through a partnership between MFEI and the Oakland Unified School District’s All City Council Student Union, the Making A-G Real Multimedia Scholarship award is offered to Oakland Unified high school seniors. The award was created to invite the creativity and vision of local youth into the conversation about what quality education should look and feel like in Oakland schools.

Awardees are eligible to receive $1000 to attend a two-year postsecondary institution or training program, or $2000 to attend a four-year postsecondary institution.

Making A-G Real awardees are selected through a public, community voting process and from judging by members of the OUSD All City Council governing board.

The application for the Making A-G Real Multimedia is closed. Please check back November 1, 2023 for the 2023-2024 application. Voting for this year's submissions will begin April 21, 2023.

Submissions should come in the form of a multimedia piece that responds to a problem students see in their school and communicates their vision for addressing it, through one of the following categories: 

  1. School Safety, Climate, and Culture

  2. Quality Teachers and Teaching

  3. School Supports

These pillars are meant to be broad and we encourage applicants’ own interpretations of them.