Augie Choice: What will you imagine?

Choose the hands-on learning experience that means the most to you. Augustana will support you with up to $2,000. This is Augie Choice.

Augie Choice is unique among colleges and universities. Beyond our excellent academic program, beyond our experiences overseas, beyond our creative, collaborative learning environment…Augustana offers more choice.

"Augustana provides students with a fertile environment to explore new ideas. Augie Choice provides the opportunity to put these ideas into action." Thomas Williams '06 Co-founder of Augie Choice

Through Augie Choice, you will receive during your junior or senior year up to $2,000 to support a qualifying hands-on learning experience -- the experience you choose for the impact it could have on your education, your career and life goals. You can use Augie Choice for international study. You might showcase your research at a national conference. You can buy time for that summer internship you know will be valuable to you and to your community.

Take that next step, even before you graduate. Dive into your career. Open the door to the ideal graduate program. Choose the learning experience that will mean the most to you. Augie Choice can make it happen.

What will you do?

Imagine a business internship with the U.S. Olympic Committee that leads to you becoming the executive director of USA Boxing.

Your internship can lead to a top position.

Imagine doing biological research on horseshoe crabs that leads to the discovery of a new parasite, and then naming it after your favorite professor.

Your research can lead to new discoveries.

Imagine combining your love of theatre and zoology by creating a theatrical show, then performing it yourself at Sea World -- with dolphins.

Your creativity can take you to new stages.

Imagine taking an internship at an AIDS clinic in Africa that stimulates you to write grants to foundations around the world, doing your part to solve one of our worst pandemics.

Your hands-on focus can be felt worldwide.

Imagine getting into a prestigious music conservatory because you realized something while transposing operas for a small church choir: to be a convincing opera singer, you had to understand people.

Your service can lead to great heights.

Imagine watching those living in poverty stand in line outside a rundown hospital in Cuenca, Ecuador, and later devoting your life as a doctor to making health care a basic right, not a privilege.

You can find a career with purpose.

Imagine organizing your fellow athletes to do sports-related community service, and then watching that organization continue to grow on campus and beyond after you graduate.

You can become a leader. The choice is yours.

To find out more about the program, contact Augie Choice Director Becca Poock at (309) 794-8287 or beccapoock@augustana.edu. You can find Ms. Poock in the Center for Vocational Reflection, Evald Hall, Room 106, Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.

Students who entered the college prior to the fall of 2008 are not eligible for Augie Choice.