ST. LOUIS—Optometry Cares—The AOA Foundation, the charitable foundation of the American Optometric Association (AOA), is accepting applications for four scholarship opportunities offered to optometry student members of the AOA and the American Optometric Student Association.

Students of schools accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education are eligible to participate. Each school can choose one candidate for each scholarship category and should forward the student’s application to Optometry Cares by Oct. 30, 2015.

The Essilor-sponsored Bernard Maitenaz Scholarship, which honors the inventor of the Varilux progressive addition lens who worked at Essilor for 43 years, will award $10,000 to a third-year optometry student.

The InfantSEE Scholarship, sponsored by Vision West, Inc., requires applicants to demonstrate their commitment to children’s vision and the InfantSEE program, which provides no-cost comprehensive eye and vision assessment for infants between six months and one year of age. The first-place prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the winning third-year student, and the runner up third-year student will receive $2,500.

Applicants for the Dr. Seymour Galina Scholarship are required to demonstrate the qualities they have developed through financial planning/work experience during and/or before optometry school that will be the most useful in a professional optometric practice. One winning third-year student will receive $2,500.

Fourth-year students are eligible for the Dr. Pat and Patrick Cummings Scholarship, sponsored in part by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., which honors the father and son whose family established the Dr. Pat & Patrick Cummings Memorial Fund through Optometry Cares. The winning student will be awarded $5,000.