I'm looking for some inspiration that I'm hoping the community can help me with!

It's been bugging me that sims can't get university scholarships for maximising hobby enthusiasm, and there doesn't seem to be a mod out there that does it (Cyjon made on for badges, but not the hobbies). But then I discovered that Pick'N'Mix wrote some great instructions for adding scholarships here, which I can use... except that it means I need to come up with names for them all and that's not my strong suit!

So I've come here for help. They are supposed to be for hobby enthusiasm, so name them something the super-keen but not necessarily super-skilled teenager might win. Here are the hobbies:
Arts and Crafts
Cuisine
Film and Literature
Fitness
Games
Music and Dance
Nature
Science
Sports
Tinkering

My ideas: maybe "the SimCity Science Fair Grand Prize" for Science, and "the Model Railways Association Junior Prize" for Tinkering - but do suggest others for those too.

You can always pick a real-world patron, or a famous sim. Name the Film and Literature award after your favorite fanfic author, or sims story writer; Science after the Curious Bros., Fitness after a fitness guru (I'm old, so the first names that come to mind are are Richard Simmons, Jack LaLane, and Jane Fonda, but you do you), and so on.

To add on; rich sims. Perhaps the Goths give out scholarships for Science enthusiasm (e.g. "The Alexander Goth Scholarship for Science enthusiasm") or name them after long deceased sims you find in the family trees, maybe "The Hamm Hogleg cooking prize" etc.

I feel like Armand DeBateu would give out scholarships, his original OTH is sports - but I never felt like that really fit him and changed it to literature in my megahood.

If you want to annoy Julien Cooke - The ZeBest Quizine culinary genius prize

Nature "the Ray Mears Bushcraft Scholarship" or the "Bear Grylls not dying in the Wilderness Scholarship"

Alright, here's what I came up with. . .

Arts & Crafts - Darleen Dreamer Memorial Artist's Scholarship
Cuisine - Grilled Cheese Society's "Late Night Snack" Minifridge Fund
Film and Literature - Books First for Learning Young Readers Scholarship
Fitness - Exerto Collegiate Cycling Grant (for those many hours spent on the exercise bike )
Games - SSX 3 World Championships Prize
Music and Dance - HotBeets "Let's Smustle!" Dance Competition Award
Nature - SimCity Garden Club Junior Horticulturist Scholarship
Science - The "Nosy Neighbor" Aspiring Astronomer Fund
Sports - SimStation Sports Superfan Award
Tinkering - The "Oops I Broke It!" Experimental Innovator Grant

Andrew wants a scholarship named after his mother, a Superstar player with Veronaville All-Stars:

The Gloria Jones Bursary for Sporting Endeavour

Arts & Crafts - The Toshio Iwai Honorary Grant
Cuisine - The Chef Yves Award for Culinary Snootery
Film and Literature - The Rosebud Fund for Media Enthusiasts
Fitness - The B.O.S.A.W.A. Award for Health and Fitness
Games - The Sixam Championship Trophy of 1337dom
Music and Dance - The Martin & Russo Foundation Grant
Nature - The Karen Frawl Foundation Grant
Science - The Purple Flask Award for Future Scientists
Sports - The Challenge Everything Grant for Aspiring Athletes
Tinkering - The Gus Oddman Award for Odd Men (and Women)

All are Maxis related references.

I just name things after my favourite sims.

My hoods would need to have the Sim Sample subvention for cheesy goodness (cuisine scholarship)!

She was also Marc's girlfriend, and they have a son together. She was badly injured in the crash. She's a really nice person (I've met her a couple of times).

Really? It looks like she fled the country to avoid taking responsibility for being drunk at the time of the crash.

A respectful disagree from me, although there's a lot of misinformation and omission of fact around the reporting on this.


Apologies for hijacking the thread!

I'm disappointed in Wikipedia then; it left out a lot of details. This was all it said.



Totally makes it sound as if the reason it was ruled an 'accidental death' was because they couldn't get her to court (which I did think was weird).

Well, you could always edit it if you feel that strongly! I just posted some sources. Gloria spoke about the accident at a gig I went to once, and she confirmed that she was never arrested and didn't illegally leave the country.

Gloria Jones is most famous for recording this song:
https://modthesims.info/showthread....775#post6020775

She is nowhere near as famous as the other Gloria Jones, in @AndrewGloria 's Veronaville.

Which Gloria has their own Wikipedia entry lol?

Weirdly, I know that song, but neither Gloria Jones' version nor the other one you linked are the one I've heard.

It's been covered a lot, but maybe gamers would know this version best, from Bioshock Infinite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccq__bsQ8Kc

Nope. Finally dug around and this is the version I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC4ssyUA2C4

Oh, that video is using the Marilyn Manson cover, he sampled the Soft Cell version heavily in that one. Not keen on it myself, and definitely not keen on Marilyn Manson (who is most certainly NOT a nice person!)

The anime it's showing is not a very nice anime, so Marilyn Manson fits. XD I didn't know who actually sung the song as I had just seen the anime video.