A $1,500 scholarship offered to students through a writing contest.
Applicants must be an out-going high school seniors (graduating summer 2020) or students currently enrolled in a college, university, or trade school at the start of the fall 2020 semester.
We are asking students to write a 500-word essay detailing their most common distracted driving habits, and to describe the concrete steps they will take to put an end to those habits.
We want to encourage students to examine their driving habits and identify ways in which they commonly become distracted behind the wheel.
These could include obvious examples such as texting, tweeting, or changing music, or a less obvious example like turning to talk to friends or simply playing the music so loudly that they cannot hear other vehicles.
Next, we want students to consider and document concrete steps to ending those distracted driving behaviors.
Applications must be received by no later than Friday, July 31, 2020.
A winner will be selected by no later than Friday, August 14, 2020.