$2,000 PixelPlex Bi-Annual STEM Scholarship
The $2000 PixelPlex Bi-Annual STEM Scholarship was established to help support and inspire students to pursue further education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), as well as economics and business. One student will be chosen from the applicant pool and will be awarded based on the strength of their written essay. The selected student will receive 2,000 USD to help cover education-related expenses.
Step 1. Check eligibility criteria
To be eligible to apply, you must meet the following criteria.
Сitizenship
You are a citizen or a permanent resident of the United States.
Enrollment
At the date of the award, you must be enrolled (or accepted with plans to attend) in a college or university in the United States.
Field of study
Your field of study is related to science, technology, engineering, math (STEM), economics, or business.
Step 2. Choose an industry
Choose an industry or sector where the application of one of the technologies below might be uncommon, in your opinion, and describe which existing problems will be solved as a result. Be specific in your discussion, focusing on concrete problems and innovative solutions, and avoid overgeneralized or broad topics.
Blockchain
(DeFi, DApps, CBDC, NFT)
Metaverses
Tokenization
Big Data & Machine Learning
Step 3. Write an essay
Please, make sure that your essay meets the following requirements.
Format
Attach your essay as a PDF or Microsoft Word document to the email.
Length
The length of the essay should be a minimum of 1200 words (there is no maximum word limit).
Originality
The essay should be original text and not published anywhere.
Essay structure
The essay should include an introduction, main body, and conclusion.
Introduction
- The introduction should give a general idea of what will be described further. There is no need to provide detailed information on the way the chosen technology works.
Main body
- The main body should be dedicated to defining the industry’s existing challenges first, then introducing solutions to the problems based on the chosen technology (would be nice to describe at least 3 industry’s challenges and 3 applications of a chosen technology as a solution respectively). Challenges should be backed up by statistics and real facts, not just personal thoughts and experience. Examples of already existing applications would be appreciated. Giving links to credible sources, providing useful statistics in the form of graphs and tables is welcomed.
- The essay needs to be logically structured and can be broken down into sections. The length of the essay should be a minimum of 1200 words.
Conclusion
- The conclusion on a chosen technology’s potential summarizes the main points of the essay and formulates the final thought or solution.
Step 4. Tell us about yourself and your choice
In your submission email, write a short paragraph or two about yourself and why you chose the topic.
About yourself
Why you chose the topic
Step 5. Provide the information
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Your full name (and parent/guardian name if you're under 18)
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Date of birth
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Your college/university
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Average GPA
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Expected year of graduation
6
Field of study
7
Phone number & email address
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Proof of attendance/acceptance from a college/university
Step 6. Congrats! This is the final step
You can apply for the scholarship either via email or the form below. If you have any questions about the PixelPlex scholarship, you can reach us at scholarship@pixelplex.io.
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Put “PixelPlex Scholarship Award: Your Name” in the subject field.
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Check if you have provided all the required information and attached the files.
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Send an email to scholarship@pixelplex.io.
Form
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Apply for the scholarship using the form below. Make sure you have attached all the files.
Deadlines & results
When is the next deadline?
The next deadlines to apply are December 5, 2024 and June 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST
How can I find out the result?
The winner will be selected and announced at pixelplex.io/scholarship within 31 calendar days after the deadline and will be notified by email.
How can I get reward?
A check for $2,000.00 will be mailed to the winner’s residency, or the sum will be transferred by wire transfer.
Additional details
Scholarship
This is a non-need based scholarship
No fee
There is no application fee for this scholarship
Submission
One submission per applicant only: multiple submissions will be disregarded
Employees of PixelPlex
Employees of PixelPlex or any of their immediate family members are not eligible to participate
Prize
The prize will be paid out in US dollars
Taxes
The winner will be solely responsible for any federal, state or local taxes.
Past contests and winners
July 5, 2024
The PixelPlex Spring Summer 2024 Essay Contest has reached its thrilling conclusion and we couldn’t be more excited to share the news. A huge thank you to everyone who participated — your essays were nothing short of extraordinary, filled with innovation, passion, and fresh perspectives. Now, with great excitement, we present to you the standout winner — Justin Chang. Justin’s essay “Addressing the Challenge of Fair Play in Chess Using Machine Learning” captivated our judges with its inventive perspective and deep understanding of both AI technology and the timeless game of chess. His work sparks a conversation on the responsible use of ML in preserving the integrity of competitive games. A resounding congratulations to Justin on this well-earned accolade! And to all our participants, thank you for sharing your exceptional essays with us. Your creativity and insight have made this contest an unforgettable journey.
Justin Chang
The University of Texas at Austin
Expected Year of Graduation:
2027
Field of Study:
Computer Science
Chosen Prompt:
Integrity is a core value that I’ve always held close to my heart. When it comes to integrity in the game of chess, I believe that machine learning technologies can make a transformative impact on cheat detection. I want to see chess continue to grow into a future where players see the game not as a battleground of suspicion and uncertainty, but as an honorable contest where fair play is ensured.
Essay Title:
Addressing the Challenge of Fair Play in Chess Using Machine Learning
As the chess community continues to embrace technological advancements, the integration of big data and machine learning will be crucial in ensuring fair play and maintaining trust among players.
Go to Full EssayJustin’s Motivational Message for Future Contestants
January 5, 2024
We are thrilled to announce the culmination of the PixelPlex Fall 2023-Winter 2024 Essay Contest! First and foremost, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to each participant for their active involvement and the insightful essays submitted. The decision-making process proved challenging due to the exceptional quality of work we received, reflecting the depth of thought and research put into each piece. Amidst such remarkable entries, it gives us immense pleasure to declare Anderson Ng as the winner of this contest! His essay, enriched by personal first-hand experience, delves into tackling the textile industry's well-known traceability and sustainability issues with the help of sophisticated technologies. Congratulations, Anderson! We encourage all students to view this as an inspiration and invite you to participate in the upcoming Spring-Summer 2024 round of our scholarship essay contest. Your unique perspectives and creative ideas have the power to make a significant impact. We eagerly await your contributions and wish you all the best in your future endeavors. Let's keep the spirit of inquiry and excellence alive!
Anderson Ng
Thomas Jefferson University
Expected Year of Graduation:
2025
Field of Study:
Textile Technology
Chosen Prompt:
I chose this topic because I actually have had first hand experience researching and collaborating with industry partners to come up with sustainable solutions with these technologies and systems. Being a textile technology student has opened my eyes to the possibilities of textiles and how such an old institution could be modernized utilizing the innovations of interconnected technology systems.
Essay Title:
How the Internet of Things, Digital Twins, and Deep Learning Transform the Textile Sector
The big challenges that the textile industry currently faces are problems with the traceability of materials, material sorting at waste management centers, and overall end-of-life processing. To combat these pressing issues, technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, digital twin models, and deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) can be utilized to assist or create a new system of sustainable textile processing.
Go to Full EssayAnderson’s Motivational Message for Future Participants
July 6, 2023
Spring - Summer 2023 round of our essay competition has come to a close! You’ve sent us lots of peculiar and insightful works and we took great delight in exploring your ideas on the latest technologies. It was truly tough to select that one winner-essay, however it was the writing of Abraham Ross, a financial technology student from Duke University, that massively impressed us. In his essay Abraham shares an innovative approach to using blockchain to maintain a digital identity and explains how it can increase the quality of life for people in underprivileged nations. We heartily congratulate Abraham on this win and remind all of our future contestants that it's time to start writing your own essays for the Fall 2023 - Winter 2024 Scholarship contest. Our winners’ essays are a great source of inspiration, so we highly recommend having a look at them.
Abraham Ross
Duke University
Expected Year of Graduation:
2023
Field of Study:
Financial Technology
Chosen Prompt:
How blockchain can help maintain a tamper-proof digital ID allowing people from poor countries to enjoy a more liberated life: participate in elections, manage their finances, travel abroad, and more.
Essay Title:
How Can Blockchain-based Personal IDs Bring Liberation to the Citizens of Impoverished Nations
The inability of citizens in impoverished nations to own their own identity leads to issues with simple financial aspects such as opening a bank account or being able to own their assets without the government seizing them. But it also opens up more serious issues such as ease of crime like human trafficking, and how these citizens are unable to own their accomplishments like degrees or have the ability to enroll in school, vote, or apply for jobs.
Go to Full EssayAbraham’s Motivational Message for Future Contestants
January 6th, 2023
The Fall 2022 - Winter 2023 essay competition is over! We enjoyed reading your great works and got inspired by your ideas on how to apply the latest technology to make our world a better place. We are delighted to announce that the winner of this round of PixelPlex STEM Scholarship is Bobby Wilson, an engineering student from the University of California, Riverside. In the essay, Bobby highlighted the challenges facing modern online and traditional education and described how the metaverse can help tackle them and make learning more interactive, efficient, affordable, and safe. Great job, Bobby! Now take your time to read and enjoy the winner's essay and start writing your own one to participate in the Spring - Summer 2023 round of our essay contest.
Bobby Wilson
University of California, Riverside
Expected Year of Graduation:
2023
Field of Study:
Engineering — Data Science
Chosen Prompt:
How the metaverse can help learners and educators improve their online education experience as well as replicate the social environment to fill the intellectual & social gaps created by moving away from physical classrooms.
Essay Title:
Step into the Virtual Classroom
Not only can virtual spaces replicate physical classrooms they may be able to improve on them by adding simulations that are unrealistic or too expensive or too dangerous to have in a traditional classroom. This is yet another opportunity for metaverses to solve an educational problem created by an evolving society and, potentially, improve on the original structure.
Go to Full EssayBobby’s Words of Advice for Future Contestants
July 6th, 2022
Another round of PixelPlex Bi-Annual STEM Scholarship has officially ended and we can’t wait to announce the Spring - Summer 2022 winner — Christal Dita, a zoology and biotechnology student from North Carolina State University. Christal’s work has managed to stand out of dozens of awesome essays and amazed us with the unconventional vision of the place of AR in modern academic research.
Christal Dita
North Carolina State University
Expected Year of Graduation:
2024
Field of Study:
Zoology and Biotechnology
Chosen Prompt:
How AR can be used to improve the laboratory setting and peer review process in response to the "publish or perish" crisis in academic research.
Essay Title:
Publish or Perish: The Woe of Every Scientist in Academic Research and Augmented Reality as a Potential Remedy
The implementation of AR technology in academic research can help facilitate efficient time management by streamlining protocols or procedures and providing more transparency during the peer review process prior to publication.
Go to Full EssayChristal’s Inspiring Message to Future Participants
January 6th, 2022
Our Fall 2021 - Winter 2022 essay competition has officially ended. We received many works and were impressed by contestants’ ideas and views on technology and their role in today's and future world. We are happy to announce that this season’s winner is Lynn Serizawa, a mathematics and philosophy major student from New York University. Lynn analyzed how artificial intelligence can solve serious problems in therapy and counseling, and provided calculations and in-depth research to support his point. Congratulations to Lynn Serizawa! We recommend that you take a look at his essay. Hope you will be inspired by his research and get ideas for yours as we have already started accepting applications for the next Spring - Summer 2022 essay competition.
Lynn Serizawa
New York University (NYU)
Expected Year of Graduation:
2022
Field of Study:
Mathematics and Philosophy
Chosen Prompt:
How artificial intelligence (AI) can be implemented in therapy and counseling, what problems it solves and how it can be used to improve patients’ mental health.
Essay Title:
The Doctor is Always In: AI’s Possible Role in Mental Health
The AI that uses an NLP algorithm could abate several problems in the therapy and counseling services in the healthcare industry. One problem that could be solved with AI is the cost of accessing mental health services. The cost of insurance and the healthcare service itself is significantly higher than the cost of an app. AI-driven therapy and counseling services could abate the lack of therapists and counselors.
Go to Full EssayLynn's Advice to Future Contestants
June 30th, 2021
The Spring - Summer 2021 essay competition has come to a close. Thank you for your submitted works! We were very impressed. Let's congratulate Andrew Timmins, a graduate student at the University of Michigan. His compelling writing has earned him our scholarship reward. Take a look at his essay to draw some inspiration for our upcoming Fall 2021 - Winter 2022 essay contest
Andrew Timmins
University of Michigan
Expected Year of Graduation:
2022
Field of Study:
Sustainable Energy Systems
Chosen Prompt:
The effect of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things on renewable energy adoption and the challenges these technologies can help solve.
Essay Title:
The Effect of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things on Renewable Energy Adoption.
In order to make demand-side response a real solution, a grid operator must be able to directly or indirectly communicate with millions of devices, protect against mismanagement from within, and protect against cyberattacks from outside. As a result, demand-side response can benefit mightily from the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technologies.
Go to Full EssayAndrew’s advice for contestants
January 6th, 2021
Just as it was a challenge for you, it was a great challenge for us to choose the winner of our Fall 2020 - Winter 2021 contest. We thank all of the participants for sending their works and sharing great ideas on how technology shapes the world around us! Rebecca Burns, a physics major from Mount Holyoke College and an avid foreign language learner, showed her creative approach to discovering the ways augmented reality can influence language acquisition. We’d like to congratulate her and hope that her quest inspires future participants in our upcoming Spring - Summer 2021 essay competition!
Rebecca Burns
Mount Holyoke College
Expected Year of Graduation:
2022
Field of Study:
Physics Major / Russian Language Minor
Chosen Prompt:
The effect of augmented reality software on language learning and challenges the technology can help solve.
Essay Title:
Augmented Reality and Language Acquisition in the Twenty-First Century.
"The application of augmented reality has possibilities beyond vocabulary acquisition. An important part of language learning that is lacking in many traditional computer- or smartphone-based language-learning software is interaction. A somewhat advanced augmented reality software could potentially mimic conversational patterns by processing images of surrounding areas and determine a list of common phrases associated with the setting. For example, if the software recognized a location as an airport, a menu could appear that specified phrases in the target language, with the option to translate the specific word or words."
Go to Full EssayRebecca's Words of Wisdom for Future Participants
July 6th, 2020
As always, it was not easy, yet we have chosen the winner of our Spring - Summer 2020 Scholarship contest. Victoria Tholkes, a Biochemistry and Spanish student with aspirations to become an epidemiologist or disease researcher has impressed us with her thoughtful writing. Let’s congratulate her on this achievement! We express genuine gratitude and appreciation to all the participants and wish the best of luck to those who are yet to test their abilities in our upcoming Fall 2020 - Winter 2021 contest!
Victoria Tholkes
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expected Year of Graduation:
2023
Field of Study:
Biochemistry and Spanish
Chosen Prompt:
How blockchain technology will revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry, the problems and challenges it will have solved in the next 3-5 years.
Essay Title:
How Blockchain Technology can Cure the Ailing Pharmaceutical Industry.
"Once a vaccine for a disease is discovered, it must jump through multiple hoops designed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other governmental organizations to be sold and administered to the waiting populace. Blockchain technology can simplify the process of approval for the FDA by creating transparency in the process of designing and testing a vaccine. This can aid with international drug exchanges and support the global community when there is a pandemic or other global health crisis."
Go to Full EssayVictoria's Words of Advice for Writing Your Best Essay
January 21st, 2020
Here comes our Fall 2019 - Winter 2020 Scholarship contest winner, Daniel Lacasse, a Graphic Design student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. This time around it didn’t get easier to pick just one outstanding essay out of the hundreds of submissions from such talented students, each with a unique academic background. We express genuine gratitude and appreciation to all the participants and wish the best of luck to those who are yet to try their hand in our upcoming Spring - Summer 2020 contest!
Daniel Lacasse
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Expected Year of Graduation:
2024
Field of Study:
Graphic Design
Chosen Prompt:
Describe which blockchain use cases, in your opinion, will be emerging in the future, and what effect they will have on our lives, economy, and the world.
Essay Title:
Why BlockChain is the Future of our Society.
"The transformation of the world as we know it could be revolutionized with the single implementation of an ingenious idea, blockchain. It’s wildly effective core composed of simple components allow for versatile approaches to solving modern problems featured in a copious amount of industries. If effectively employed, the implementation of blockchain technology within a variety of industries will pave the way for the future of innovation."
Go to Full EssayDaniel’s Advice to Future Participants
August 31st, 2019
The winner of our Spring-Summer 2019 Scholarship contest is Siddhant Iyer who studies Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Thank you, everyone, who participated in the contest! It was really tough to choose the best essay as our scholarship committee went through hundreds of outstanding works. Please see the winner information below and don’t forget to participate in our new Fall 2019 - Winter 2020 contest!
Siddhant Iyer
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Expected Year of Graduation:
2020
Field of Study:
Polymer/Plastics Engineering
Chosen Prompt:
How artificial intelligence will advance five years from now and what impact it will have on our lives.
Essay Title:
How Artificial Intelligence Will Advance Five Years from Now and What Impact It Will Have on Our Lives
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the computing infrastructure in the 21st century in an effort to build machines that are capable of mimicking human-like behavior relying primarily on rationality, logic and the additional emotional component of decision-making. In a tech-driven era, where innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented rate, one could only imagine what the future beholds, especially considering the swarm of large companies and start-ups that implement AI in multiple segments of their businesses."
Go to Full EssayMessage From Prior Scholarship Winner
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