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$1,000 Scholarship Essay Contest

Deadline for entry is July 17th, 2020

Entry Form

This is the second Agile Payments Essay scholarship.

The previous essay contest was won by Toby Burch of North Central Texas College.

Bookmark this page and set yourself a calendar reminder now!

About the Essay Contest

Do to the Covid-19 environment, the essay contest has been placed on indefinite hold. Submitted essays will be applied to the contest once a new date has been determined.

$1,000 will be awarded

The Agile Payments essay contest will support the winning student in their pursuit of their degree. Featured essays may be published in part or in their entirety on the Agile Payments blog with attribution to the author.

Qualifications

To qualify, undergraduate or graduate students must be attending an accredited college or university. Upload and essay addressing one of the following topics:

  1. What is the most innovative payments related application that you use and how does it make your life easier?
  2. Payments Innovations: Give your opinion on a new or yet to be discovered payments related innovation and why it would be a good contribution to society.
  3. Evaluate a current payments related application and explain what could be done better.
  4. Evaluate any application that does not have a payments component and explain why it should have a payments component and how it would benefit the organizations or companies using it and how it would also benefit the end-users.

Rules

  • Applicant is a current student at an accredited college or university.
  • Applicant agrees to allow publication of their essay with attribution (if desired).
  • Deadline for submission is 5 PM EST, July 17th, 2020.
  • Winner will be announced August 12th 2020.
  • Payment will be via electronic or paper check.

Entry Form

Helpful Links

The following table includes links to various topics commonly used by applications that have a payments component:

Learning ACH (eCheck) transactions and integration Understanding Payment Gateways and Integration ACH Aggregation – what you need to know
Payment Aggregation (Facilitation) 201 – what you need to know Credit Card merchant account integrations – learn more Payment Processing Partnerships. Why, who and how.
Understanding Marketplace Payment Processing Solutions The importance of credit card declines and the management thereof in recurring payments Understanding managed payment facilitation
What is Canadian EFT Understanding IVR Payments
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