LYNN – Lynn Classical High School senior Brenda Eng admittedly started searching for college scholarships a bit later than other students in her class, but thanks to a tip from her cousin and an eye for design, she will be headed to school next September with a brand new purse and a pile of cash to weigh it down.Eng was recently selected by Coach Inc. as the winner of a tote bag design contest, sponsored by the Web site brickfish.com, which allows teen users to create videos and blogs and provides an opportunity for them to interact with some of their favorite brands and enter contests for a chance to win “recognition and awards.”Brickfish, like many other new social Web sites, also affords users the opportunity to apply for scholarships, although most are not academically based, but encourage users to use the Internet as a tool to secure votes from their peers.Eng was initially turned on to a bag design contest by her cousin, who had entered her own design in the hopes of winning the grand prize – a $500 scholarship and a $2,500 Coach shopping spree.Unfortunately for her cousin, the suggestion led to the demise of her own design as Eng’s “all nighter” bag wound up the grand prize winner, much to her own surprise.”I really wasn’t expecting to win at all,” said Eng. “I kind of felt bad because my cousin told me about it and she entered it first.”Eng’s bag, named “all nighter” because she designed it in one night working from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., is based on a collage concept, with the word “Coach” written in different fonts and sizes across the bag.Mostly black and white, the bag features a subtle tinge of dark red at the bottom, something that no doubt caught the high-end clothing company’s eye. The most impressive part of the effort may be that, while other entrants may have used high-tech computer programs for their designs, Eng created her tote entirely in the Microsoft Paint application.”I really like collages, I used to do them all the time in freshman and sophomore year, but I kind of stopped doing them,” she said. “But I have never seen bags with a lot of fonts on them, so I decided to just write coach in different typeface. It is a really simple design.”Along with the shopping spree and $500, Eng and four of her friends will attend a Coach party at the company’s Copley Center retail location in Boston this April.Despite the encouraging victory in the design contest, Eng says she is leaning toward marketing and advertising as a major in school, rather than design. She has sent out applications to a few colleges and continues to search for more scholarship money as she awaits word on her acceptance.