Royal Seavine Scholarship

Our First Annual Royal Seavine Scholarship is Live!

Application Deadline: May 18th, 2025 11:59 PST
(There will be 0 submissions accepted after this time)

Application structure and guidelines, please read

Welcome to the 2025 Royal Seavine Scholarship! This scholarship is designed in hopes to get financial assistance to those that need it most.

Eligibility for the Royal Seavine Scholarship is for all contracted Carolina Crown brass players for the 2025 season. No applicant can owe previous membership fees to any WGI or DCI ensemble.

The application consists of one video submission. Each applicant is to submit a video for full point consideration. The video will be scored based off of 70% content and 30% execution. We are excited to give applicants the opportunity to express themselves in spoken format.

For the video submission please read the following information:

Video must be a minimum length of 2 minutes and a maximum of 5 minutes
Video submission must be uploaded to YouTube as an UNLISTED link

The judging panel consists of former drum corps educators and performers along with other qualified leaders within the marching community. It is important to remember that the adjudication process is subjective but judging guidelines and rubrics are followed to the utmost detail and transparency.

In the event that you win Royal Seavine Scholarship and do not finish your marching season, you are expected to return all scholarship monies to Seavine before DCI World Championships have concluded.

The Royal Seavine Scholarship is made possible by the partnership between Seavine and Carolina Crown. The Royal Seavine Scholarship is fully funded by Seavine profits and is only possible because of our partnership with Carolina Crown.

We are incredibly excited to offer our first ever brass scholarship designated to those that play a unique part in the drum corps community. Best of luck with your application and have a great DCI season!

—The Royal Seavine Scholarship Advisory Board

DCI 2025 Scholarship Form

Name

Mailing Address Address1 Address2

City

State

Postal/Zip code

Country

Phone Number

What instrument do you play?

Is there a link online where we can donate to your fees? If so please list the link below! This can not be a GoFundme link, it must go directly to Carolina Crown.

Current Education Enrollment

Tell us where you have marched up to this season!

How much are your total membership fees this season?

How much do you still OWE on your membership fees?

Video Submission Prompt: Knowing how expensive drum corps is, why is it important for you to march this season? What initiatives have you taken to pay your membership fees for this DCI season? How much have you paid and what do you still owe? Explain in detail how you have come up with the funds so far to pay for your fees.

Video must be a minimum length of 2 minutes and a maximum length of 5 minutes. For full point value, do not read word for word from a script. You may use bullet points as a guide. The question is set up in such a way that the video should feel like you're telling a story. We want to hear the answer in your own voice. Please share an unlisted (not private) YouTube link with your video.

Please remember that this answer is scored based off of need and merit. The two sub captions for scoring are content (your story) and execution, how well you delivery your message (charisma, genuineness, etc.)