Now, I want to start off by saying I am not looking to start such an idea. While I would love to, I feel that I, as a person, am not responsible to handle such a task, but maybe a person or group of people from here in the bit-verse can go ahead and take this and run with it.
Every other day or so I read some sappy and joyful story of some teen, somewhere, who has embraced the sciences at a young age and has already proved to be a force in our planets history that has the drive and ability to change our peoples and planets future for the better. Many of us came to bitcoin with a similar dream of making a world where currency is not bound by borders, banks and governments and allow the people to use the fruit of their labors to benefit themselves as well as their homeland without the hassles of traditional banking and treasury.
What I propose, is that a very well established member such as (these are just the first names that pop into my head) Charlie Sherm of BitInstant or Gareet (did I spell that right) of Ozcoin, to setup a wallet as a donation wallet that will be dispersed to verified applicants on a set scheduled like traditional scholarships. I would imagine that CompSci, electrical enginerring and other sciences would be the fields to offer to, but even the finance field could benifit from this.
We have hundreds of projects and securities here in the bitcoin world that have thousands if not close to millions tied up in them with little to no security, yet I find it hard that we all cant send 0.10btc to a single address once a year to give many the chance for a higher education that they normally could not obtain with traditional education funding methods.
Please respond. While I said I do not want to head this project, I do offer both coin and my effort to help make it a reality. Also, while you are here, this is my personal candidate for such a scholarship.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/budding-scientist-headed-on-a-summer-trip-to-nasa-lab/2126473
