Tim Weilert
2009 CAL Scholarship Recipient

I am currently a sophomore mechanical engineering student at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden. Born and raised in Fort Collins, I am a Colorado native through-and-through. On the right-brained side of things, I enjoy music and writing. I currently work as a manager and writer at CSM's independent student-run newspaper The Oredigger, and I oversee day-to-day operations at the Denver-music-scene blog "Something Like Sound," (http://www.minesblog.com/music). It is my goal to show engineers that there is beauty and relevancy in art.

In his application, Tim wrote: "I write because as a man of science I have a duty to society to think in new and innovative ways. If engineers are unable to write, then innovation falls by the wayside and the core issues of society go unaddressed. I write not to preserve the present, but to press into the future."

  Scholarship Application

Beginning in 2002-03, the Colorado Authors' League, the state's premier organization of professional, independent writers, began offering a $1,000 scholarship to an aspiring Colorado writer.

The Colorado Authors' League created the annual scholarship as part of its commitment to encourage, support and nurture Colorado writers.

The Colorado Authors' League Scholarship is open to applicants who:

• are legal Colorado residents;
  
• are enrolled full-time (12-hours minimum) in an accredited public or private Colorado institution of higher education, which includes a university, four-year college, community or junior college, or career/technical college;
  
• have successfully completed at least 12 hours of undergraduate study;
  
• have a minimum GPA of 2.5 or better;
  
• demonstrate financial need.

Additionally, applicants must write an essay of up to 1,000 words on the topic: "How Writing will Benefit My Profession." Essays will be judged for excellence of writing, creativity and grammar.

Applicantions must be posmarked by April 1. Winners will be notified by May 1.

Incorporated on January 14, 1932 to fost the art and craft or authorship, the Colorado Authors' League (CAL) is the state's premier organization of professional, independent writers united to futher members' success. It is the oldest writers organization in Colorado and among the oldest in the western United States. Today, CAL includes more than 230 specialists, whose work embraces every branch of fiction and non-fiction writing.