Beyoncé launches scholarship to celebrate anniversary of 'Lemonade'

Prepare to slay the school day.🐝 🍋 📚
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Beyoncé launches scholarship to celebrate anniversary of 'Lemonade'
Beyonce during The 59th GRAMMY Awards. Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS

Queen Bey wants to help ladies get in formation and pursue a college education, so she's decided to award scholarships to four ambitious, creative, and lucky AF women.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Beyoncé's powerful visual album, Lemonade, the singer announced her 2017-2018 Formation Scholars program on Monday, which she hopes will "encourage and support young women who are unafraid to think outside the box and are bold, creative, conscious and confident."

Bey's Formation Scholarship awards will be presented to female students -- incoming, current, or graduate -- from the following universities: Berklee College of Music, Howard University, Parsons School of Design, and Spelman College.

Each school will have the opportunity to offer one scholarship to a driven young woman studying creative arts, music, literature, or African-American studies -- so in other words, to women channeling Bey.

To learn more about the Formation scholarships and application deadlines, check in with participating colleges.

Prepare to slay your school days.🐝 🍋 📚

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Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

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