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Accepting the Challenge of Excellence Scholarship
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About the Scholarship
Opens: 3/1/2023
Closes: 5/1/2024
Accepting the Challenge of Excellence Scholarship recognizes and rewards, with college scholarships, outstanding high school seniors who have overcome obstacles.
This program is open to high school students who have made a dramatic change in their attitude and performance sometime during their high school years and are now eligible for high school graduation.
Candidates should have overcome great physical, emotional, or social obstacles, including physical difficulties, language difficulties, child abuse, delinquency, or substance abuse.
They must first be selected by their local Exchange Club, and the club's award chair must submit a 500word description of the candidate's problem and how it was overcome.
The students must also submit 2 essays of 250 words each: 1) the event or events in their life that they are most proud of; and 2) their plans for the future to make their community and the world a better place to live.
Other selection criteria include community service activities and volunteer service hours.
District winners are selected from among the local club nominees, and the national winner is chosen from among the district winners.