{"id":5346,"date":"2026-03-26T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:48:12","slug":"nominate-a-student-for-the-new-seaports-of-the-americas-scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/nominate-a-student-for-the-new-seaports-of-the-americas-scholarship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominate a Student for the NEW Seaports of the Americas Scholarship Program!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ports.org\/about\/content.aspx?ItemNumber=21800&amp;navItemNumber=20811\">Foundation for the Seaports of the Americas<\/a>&nbsp;is excited to launch a&nbsp;<strong>new scholarship program in&nbsp;2026<\/strong>, giving assistance to students pursuing careers in the ports and maritime industry. This scholarship represents a key step in the Foundation\u2019s mission to support future workforce needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scholarship will award&nbsp;<strong>$5,000 for every $50,000 in minimum Foundation balance<\/strong>, with the first award cycle opening later this year. Applications will open in&nbsp;May, and the scholarship will be awarded in August. The Foundation\u2019s current balance is&nbsp;<strong>$95,000&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014 just $5,000 away from supporting a second scholarship!&nbsp;Join other ports in sustaining and expanding the mission of the Foundation for Seaports of the Americas by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/my.aapa-ports.org\/FSTA\/FSTA\/Foundation_Donations.aspx\">donating now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AAPA member ports are encouraged to begin preparing now by identifying a nominee in advance of the June 26 application deadline.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Foundation for the Seaports of the Americas&nbsp;is excited to launch a&nbsp;new scholarship program in&nbsp;2026, giving assistance to students pursuing careers in the ports and maritime industry. This scholarship represents a key step in the Foundation\u2019s mission to support future workforce needs. The scholarship will award&nbsp;$5,000 for every $50,000 in minimum Foundation balance, with the first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1269,1294],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog","tag-foundation-for-seaports-of-the-americas","tag-scholarships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}