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Discus Awards Blog - Meet the Winner - Jason Cui 4 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pm
Children around the world are diagnosed with cancer every day. Although not a new disease, cancer has a unique impact on children. Through volunteering at my local hospital in the summer of 2010, I sa...
Discus Awards Blog - 2012-2013 NAAS Scholarship Announcement 30 Jan 2013 | 01:00 am
Back in September, I wrote about how the 2012-2013 program year is going to be a year of improvement for the Discus Awards. On that front, we are continuing to work on making the updates to our progra...
Discus Awards Blog - 2012-2013 Program Year Announcement 13 Sep 2012 | 11:00 pm
Welcome back to school, mates! We are fresh off an incredibly successful 2011-2012 Discus Awards program during which we awarded more than $5 million in scholarships to well-rounded high school stude...
Discus Awards Blog - Winner Video of the Day - Jasper Arneberg 7 Jun 2012 | 10:00 am
Discus Award winner Jasper Arneberg, or as we call him "Jasper the Juggler" (he doesn't know that yet), performed with friends at a talent show. What happened next is quite possibly the greatest weath...
Discus Awards Blog - Meet the Winner - Madison Vincent 7 Jun 2012 | 09:00 am
Over twenty-seven million people suffer from modern day slavery, this includes over two-hundred thousand child slaves in just western to central Africa. On Ghana’s Lake Volta live seven thousand of th...
Discus Awards Blog - Winner Picture of the Day - Karl Segletes 4 Jun 2012 | 03:00 am
If you guys have been following the news out of Silicon Valley about "The Facebook", you may have noticed the IPO has been a bit of a dud so far. Some may say in a new world being disrupted by techno...
Discus Awards Blog - Video Picture of the Day - Mitchell Herrmann 7 May 2012 | 09:00 am
Today, we celebrate the Don Drapers of the world, or the Leo Burnetts of the real world (no, not the MTV reality show), with an advertising campaign that should have been, created by Discus Award winn...
Discus Awards Blog - Winner Picture of the Day - Emily Smith 5 May 2012 | 08:00 am
Discus Award winner Emily Smith excels in academics, athletics, and community service, but it is her artistic ability that is the focus of today's Winner Picture of the Day. As the seasons change, we...
Discus Awards Blog - Meet the Winner - Melinda Marchiano 27 Apr 2012 | 06:00 am
To read more about Melinda's experience buy her book, "Grace: A Child's Intimate Journey Through Cancer and Recovery". Proceeds of the book are donated to childhood cancer research and childhood cance...
Discus Awards Blog - Meet the Winner - Kelly Eastman 11 Apr 2012 | 07:00 am
If you want to read more about Kelly's experience, read her journal on her CaringBridge. Hello everyone! I hope that your holidays have brought you peace, love, and happiness! When I was diagnosed o...