Never Miss a Scholarship Again: Building Scholarship Hunter, Your Automated Scholarship Finder for African Students.

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This is a submission for the Runner H "AI Agent Prompting" Challenge

What I Built

Scholarship Hunter is a Runner H-powered automated AI agent that fetches, filters, summarizes, formats, and distributes weekly scholarship opportunities for African students, especially in Nigeria.

It scrapes relevant, current, and fully funded scholarships (requiring no IELTS where possible), ensures at least 10 valid opportunities weekly, formats them cleanly, and automatically sends a rich HTML digest to my subscribers, saving hours of manual research and newsletter preparation every week.

Demo

📸 Screenshots:

Workflow diagram in Runner H

Delivered email in HTML format

Google Sheet and Google Doc outputs.

Sheet link:

Doc Link:

Subscriber receiving the digest.

How I Used Runner H

I leveraged Runner H’s capabilities in these steps:

✅ Surfer H Browsing: Automatically visits opportunitiesforafricans.com, opportunitydesk.org, and scholarshipscorner.website to extract live scholarship data weekly.

✅ Data Parsing & Filtering: Filters only relevant scholarships by keywords (“Nigeria,” “Africa,” “fully funded,” etc.) and skips expired opportunities.

✅ Validation: Ensures at least 10 scholarships are gathered each week before sending.

✅ Structured Outputs:

Compiles a Google Sheet with scholarship title, eligibility, deadline, award, link, and a 2–3 sentence summary.
Generates a Google Doc in Markdown-friendly newsletter format.

✅ Rich HTML Email Automation:

Fetches subscriber emails from my Google Sheet titled “Scholarship Subscribers”.
If the file is missing, sends fallback to toyaabconcepts@gmail.com.
Sends a richly formatted HTML email to all subscribers, including:
- Clickable scholarship titles
- Eligibility
- Deadline
- Award
- Summary
- Footer with direct links to the Google Sheet & Google Doc
Sends a copy of the email to myself for tracking.

✅ Scheduling: Runs weekly on Mondays at 8 AM WAT, requiring zero manual intervention.

Replication Instructions:

Firstly, create your a Google Sheet named "Scholarship Subscribers" and list your subscriber emails in it.

2.Visit: https://runner.hcompany.ai

Connect Google Sheets, Docs, Drive, and Gmail integrations.

Enable surfer H if not already enabled.
Paste this structured prompt:

Using Surfer H browsing capabilities, go to the following scholarship websites:
- https://opportunitiesforafricans.com/
- https://www.opportunitydesk.org/
- https://scholarshipscorner.website/

Search for current and upcoming scholarships relevant to African students, particularly in Nigeria, focusing on opportunities that are fully funded, require no IELTS, and are for undergraduate or master's studies.

For each scholarship found:
- Extract:
   - Scholarship Title
   - Eligibility criteria (including citizenship/location requirements)
   - Deadline
   - Award amount or benefits
   - Application link
   - A 2–3 sentence summary highlighting why it is attractive for African students.

Filter out any scholarships that are already expired or have deadlines that have passed.

Once you have shortlisted at least 10 relevant scholarships, compile them into a clean, readable Google Sheet in my Google Drive with the following columns:
- Title
- Eligibility
- Deadline
- Award
- Application Link
- Summary

Name the Google Sheet:
Weekly Scholarship Digest – {Today’s Date}

Additionally, create a Google Doc summarizing the scholarships in a Markdown-friendly format for email newsletters, using this structure:

Weekly Scholarship Digest – {Today’s Date}

[Scholarship Title](Link)
- Eligibility: [Scholarship Eligibility]
- Deadline: [Deadline]
- Award: [Award]
- Summary: [Summary]
---

Save the Google Doc in the same Google Drive folder as the Google Sheet.

Once completed, retrieve the list of subscriber emails from my Google Sheet named "Scholarship Subscribers" in my Google Drive and use these as the recipient list for the email. If the "Scholarship Subscribers" file is not found, send the email to (input your fallback email) instead.

Send the email in a clean, reader-friendly rich HTML format with the following:
- Subject: Your Weekly Scholarship Digest is Ready! 📚
- Body:
   - A short introduction: "Here is the curated scholarship digest for this week."
   - For each scholarship:
      - Title as a clickable link
      - Eligibility
      - Deadline
      - Award
      - Summary

At the bottom of the email, include:
"You can view the structured sheet and formatted newsletter draft below.
- Link to the Google Sheet
- Link to the Google Doc"

Ensure the Google Sheet and Google Doc have viewing permissions enabled for my email.

Send a copy of the email you sent to subscribers to (input your personal email) for my records.

Press “Run button.”

That's all, simple in minutes.

Use Case & Impact

Real-World Application:

Many African students miss scholarship opportunities due to lack of organized, current, and accessible listings. Manual research is time-consuming, and generic job/scholarship sites often include expired or irrelevant entries.

Scholarship Hunter automates the research and newsletter preparation pipeline, helping students:
✅ Discover fully funded, relevant opportunities on time.
✅ Reduce information overload by receiving only 10 actionable, summarized scholarships weekly.
✅ Access a structured sheet for easy sorting and a clean newsletter for quick reading.

Impact:

✅ Saves me 4–6 hours weekly in newsletter preparation.
✅ Keeps subscribers consistently engaged.
✅ Enables scaling to additional student communities or local study groups.

Social Love

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