Mad Genius Scholarship

At Mad Genius, we're on a mission to unleash our creative energy on the world of snacking. We are obsessively passionate about creating mind-melting culinary mashups that test the bounds of flavor fusion. We are equally passionate about connecting with our community and recognizing creative genius, especially in America’s youth.

The Mad Genius Scholarship exists to “UNLEASH MAD POTENTIAL.” Unlike purely academic scholarships, we plan to recognize and reward genius across a wide range of creative (and not necessarily academic) pursuits.

Mad Genius’s disruptive mashups combine all-time favorite foods into convenient, craveable, and highly snackable comfort foods like Cheeseburger Quesadillas, General Tso’s Chicken Empanadas, and Bacon Mac & Cheese Snack Rolls. Mad Genius is excited to invite scholarship applicants to flex their creativity around a MASHUP theme.

For this year's scholarship class, applications are open to high school, undergraduate, trade school, or graduate students who are exceptionally creative, inspired, and motivated to achieve in creative fields. To apply, please respond in full to the following prompt:

1) Submit a mashup inspired creative work and explain your thought process in creating it and how it ties into the mashup theme.

2) In a short essay (<500 words), share your inspiration and thought process behind the novel mashup creation that you’ve submitted. 

3) OPTIONAL: Submit a photo that best conveys your vibe.

We are eager to reward insane creativity and mind-blowing originality. By way of merely illustrative example, if your creative passion is…

• CULINARY, you could submit food mashup ideas, recipes, and/or images of your most inventive and delicious mashups.
• VISUAL ARTS, you could create a brilliant image or illustration of unexpected objects mashing together
• FASHION, you could create a mashup themed outfit, bringing together different wardrobe items and styles.
• COMEDY/LITERARY, you could write stories, poems or jokes inspired by the mashup theme.

Best of luck to all who enter. We’re excited to be blown away by your genius and award our inaugural “Mashterclass” of Mad Genius Scholarship recipients!

Disclaimer – If I am chosen as a Mad Genius Scholarship recipient, I agree that Mad Genius will have the right to feature my name, hometown, and my creative work(s) on Mad Genius’ social media platforms and/or website. As a condition of my submission, I agree to grant Mad Genius full ownership and intellectual property rights in all ownable aspects of my submission. In exchange for scholarship consideration, I agree to timely execute any disclaimers of IP ownership as to my submission upon Mad Genius’s request. I understand that Mad Genius is not obligated to use this creative work(s), and I am not entitled to any compensation or recognition apart from the scholarship award, if I am chosen. I warrant that the creative work(s) submitted are (i) entirely my own, (ii) not plagiarized in any way, and (iii) not made (in whole or in part) through use of AI.