A questionable system

I live in the wonderful state of Florida which proudly gives graduating high school students with good academic records a scholarship named Bright Futures. Some of the requirements for the Scholarship are a minimum GPA, academic hours and no criminal history. For the past two years I have been a recipient of this scholarship which has helped me greatly seeing that it has payed for my community college in full. I am about to graduate from Valencia Community College with my Associates degree in Business Administration and will be continuing on to a private university titled Rollins College which in extremely expensive in comparison to any public school. This past spring semester I took off to do an internship with the New Mexico State senate in which I did not go through the school, therefor I did not receive any academic credits. As a result the Florida Board of education as revoked my scholarship and will not in any way reinstate it. I have tried vigorously to speak with faculty of my current school and my future one and they cant really do a thing. These credits that I need do not even need to contribute to my degree in any way because I have already completed the requirements they would be for the sole purpose of reinstating my scholarship. I have contacted members of the board of education and my efforts seem futile seeing that it is virtually impossible to get a hold of any one with any kind of say in the matter. I understand completely why they have these types of rules so that students do not take advantage of the system. But what happens when that is not the case? Do I pay this price for trying to better myself and get real world experience? Apparently so. My issue is that the people who make these decisions are inaccessible making difficult to plead my case. I have since then relinquished my efforts to reinstate my scholarship and am now pursuing other opportunities, but at the end of the day I will remain disappointed in how this system has great flaws.