“El Valle Puede” Scholarships 

Our goal this season is to identify high school seniors with Latino heritage that Helios Education Foundation & Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury Foundation may interview by end of March 2024. We would like to receive applications to include personal statements, videos and transcripts to help us understand applicant’s background and challenges when we deliberate and make our final selections. Application must be completed by 11:59 pm March 1, 2024. 

General Criteria 

The “El Valle Puede” Scholarship Program in partnership with Helios Education Foundation supports Arizona high school seniors with financial need attending an accredited post-secondary institution and pursuing any field of study. Students must be enrolled full-time in an accredited Arizona university. Student eligibility criteria for the scholarships are: 

  • Must be of Latino heritage 
  • Graduating high school senior from an Arizona public high school 
  • Have and maintain a 2.5 or higher cumulative academic GPA 
  • Demonstrate financial need as determined by Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or the Federal Student Aid Estimator (if undocumented).
  • Student Pell Grant Eligible 
  • Have been accepted into, or expect to be accepted into, an accredited Arizona public university. 
  • A well-rounded student achieved through any of the following: sports, leadership, and volunteerism, etc. (basketball connection is preferred) 

Award Amounts

Students who apply will be eligible to receive one of two scholarships.

Award amount of up to $12,500 per year based on Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR’s) in-state tuition rate or remaining cost of attendance (lesser of the two). Funds may be used for tuition, fees, books or other educational expenses. Scholarships are renewable for up to three additional years of study if students are in good standing and maintain the required GPA.  
 
Award amount of up to $2,500 per year based on tuition rates at an in-state community college. Scholarships are renewable for one additional year. Funds may be used for tuition, fees, books or other educational expenses.

“El Valle Puede” 
General Online Scholarship Application 

 Applicant Information 

Please provide answers to sections.

Contact Information

Name*
Name of School Counselor*

Demographic Information

Colleges and universities are asked by many groups, including the federal government, accrediting associations, college guides, and newspapers, to describe the ethnic/racial backgrounds of their students and employees. In order to respond to these requests, we ask you to answer the following two questions:

Please identify one ore more of the following groups in which you consider yourself to be a member: *

Current & Past School Information

Community Service (add service name, achievement/leadership positions held, and dates involved)

WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD MORE COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS?

Current & Past School Information - Continued

Extracurricular Activities (add activity name, achievement/leadership positions held, and dates involved)

WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD MORE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES?
Are you an athlete? If so, can you please share all of the sports you play or have played in the past? *
Are you a basketball player?*

College/University Information

Reference Requests

Upload contact information for two people that can speak on your behalf


First Reference*
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Second Reference*
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Upload at least one letter of reference from the following people: Counselor, Teacher, Mentor, Employer and/or Coach.*
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Transcript

Please submit an unweighted transcript.*
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Share Your Impact

Personal Statement

  • Submit a five-minute personal statement video and written personal statement that will help us understand your background. A personal statement that will tell us YOUR story. Tell us about who YOU are, where you come from. Please include anything you would like to share about you and your life on this video statement. Personal statement to include or answer the following questions: What impact would receiving a scholarship have on your educational attainment plans? How has basketball impacted your life? State any personal or family circumstances affecting your need for financial assistance, such as financial hardship and family responsibilities.


Personal Statement Write-Up*
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How will you submit your personal statement video?*
IMPORTANT | Your video link must load your video and play and not require us to download. If you have a video file please upload it after submitting your form application to Dropbox.

The form on submission will automatically show a Dropbox page to upload a video, if you entered your video link above please disregard the Dropbox page.

Deadline

All applications and transcripts must be completed by 11:59 pm 
March 1, 2023. 

Submit completed application, transcript, written personal statement and 
five-minute video by the deadline.

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