b'Leadership Scholarships:The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Leadership Scholarship is a full-tuition scholarship open to students who during their senior year in high school served as Student Body President or Senior Class President.Interested students must submit the Leadership Scholarship Application (PDF), be first time entering freshmen and legal residents of Mississippi.To remain eligible for the scholarship, student must maintain a 2.5 grade point average while enrolled in 15 or more hours per semester. Scholarship is renewable for up to four consecutive semesters, including summer. Priority deadline is April 1. Career-Technical (CTE) Scholarships:Full-tuition scholarship awarded to Mississippi residents that are full-time, "first-time to enter college" freshmen career/technical students who have a high-school diploma and have completed a two-year secondary career/technical/ program with an overall high school average of B or above.A half-tuition career/technical scholarship is also available for students with a "C" average in academic courses and an "A" average in career/technical courses.A student must be enrolled in and complete a minimum of 15 credit hours each semester. CTE Scholarship recipients must follow the catalog course sequence for the first 30 hours of the approved program. Any deviation from this sequence will need to be approved by the program advisor. To continue to receive a CTE scholarship to remain eligible student must maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA or higher. Students who do not adhere to the catalog course sequence or students who drop below the 2.5 cumulative GPA requirements and/or the 15 semester hour completion requirement will be placed on scholarship probation for one probationary semester to allow the student to re-enter the catalog course sequence or to regain the 2.5 cumulative GPA and/or satisfy the 15 semester hour completion requirement. If the student does not meet the probationary requirements, the student will no longer be eligible to receive the scholarship.For career programs, these scholarships are renewable for the length of the program. For career/technical programs, it is renewable for the length of the program, which may include summer enrollment for programs that require summer attendance as indicated in the college catalog. For two-year programs that do not require summer attendance, the scholarship is renewable for four consecutive fall/spring semesters.Career and Technical Student Organization Competition Scholarships: Full-tuition scholarship awarded to Mississippi residents that are full-time, "first-time to enter college" freshmen career/technical students who have a high-school diploma, have completed a two-year secondary career/technical program and have either placed first in a state competition or first, second or third in a national competition sponsored by an MDE recognized student organization.A student must be enrolled in and complete a minimum of 15 credit hours each semester. CTE Scholarship recipients must follow the catalog course sequence for the first 30 hours of the approved program. Any deviation from this sequence will need to be approved by the program advisor. To remain eligible student must maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA or higher. Students who do not adhere to the catalog course sequence or students who drop below the 2.5 cumulative GPA requirements and/or the 15 semester hour completion requirement will be placed on scholarship probation for one probationary semester to allow the student to re-enter the catalog course sequence or to regain the 2.5 cumulative GPA and/or satisfy the 15 semester hour completion requirement. If the student does not meet the probationary requirements, the student will no longer be eligible to receive the scholarship.The Career and Technical Student Organization Competition Scholarship is renewable for the length of the program as prescribed in the college catalog and is applicable to all career technical programs which award a diploma, Associate of Applied Science degree, or Associate of Applied Science in Occupational Education degree.MDE Nationally Recognized Vocational Student Organizations are:Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Future Farmers of America (FFA) Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) SkillsUSA Technology Student Association (TSA) 44'