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Career Launcher Student Grants

NCRF will be offering five to seven grants each quarter that will cover the cost for students to participate in the NCRF Career Launcher program.

 

 

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible to apply for the NCRF Career Launcher Student Grants, students must meet the following criteria: Affirm they are currently a court reporting student enrolled in a court reporting school and/or can provide verification that they have passed one skills test at 180 wpm or higher.

 

 

Application information

  • Applications that are received and include all required information will be entered into a drawing that will be held live on Facebook.
  • Applications not drawn as winners will be included in all future drawings in which five to seven more entries will be chosen.
  • Grant winners will be featured in an article in an issue of the JCR Weekly and the Up-to-Speed quarterly student newsletter.

 

 

Quarterly submission dates

Application deadline dates (by 5 p.m. Eastern)
  • March 14, 2023
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  • June 14, 2023
  • September 14, 2023
  • December 14, 2023

Drawings will be held the week following each deadline date above.

 

GRANT APPLICATION FORM

 

 

NCRF Career Launcher Grant application - Steno only

For questions, contact Jill Parker Landsman, Foundation Manager, at 800-272-NCRA (6272) or by email at jlandsman@ncra.org.

*Candidates must have passed one skills test writing at 180 words per minute or higher at the time of submission. NOTE: Speed skills information is subject to verification using the school reference provided below.

 

Student information

Speed verification information

Speed verification

This field is required

Please attach speed verification information. NOTE: If not available, NCRF reserves the right to verify this information by contacting your school reference provided below.

   
By checking this box, I affirm that I am currently a stenographic court reporting student enrolled in a court reporting school and/or can provide verification of speed (skills test writing at 180 words per minute or higher). I understand that this grant will be available only to qualified stenographic court reporting students. I affirm the information contained herein is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

 

* Stenographic student candidates not in a formal court reporting program can provide verification of speed the following ways:

  • One passed RSRJ skills test
  • One passed RPRL skills test
  • One passed test on EV360 or Realtime Coach
     

School reference information

School reference information may be used to verify that the student candidate has passed one skills test at 180 words per minute or higher. 

   

   
 
 

 

 

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