ESSAY #1- SWE



ESSAY #1- SWE

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), founded in 1950, is a non-profit educational and service organization. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders. For more information about the Society, visit about or call (312) 596-5223.

The most important consideration for selection will be an essay written about her desire to enter an engineering or engineering-related field and why that particular field interests her. The essay should not mention any specific companies or financial needs but should address the following topics:

- what inspired her to choose engineering

- what she has done to prepare herself for the field of engineering

Email your application, essay, awards, or honors, and extracurricular activities to idahoswe@

ESSAY #2

BigSun Scholarship...2013

The BigSun Organization is proud to be able to help young athletes succeed in their academic pursuits. In order to do our part we are offering an annual scholarship to a deserving student. All student athletes are eligible for this award, regardless of which sport they are participating in.

How to Apply

Please send us a short essay answering the following 3 part question:

What are your most important extracurricular or community activities? What made you join these activities? What made you continue to contribute to them?

Deadline: June 21, 2013. Who is eligible? All student athletes are eligible regardless of the sport they are engaged in. The student must be a high school senior or be attending a post secondary institute.

All essay submissions should be sent to: athleticawards@

The winner will be notified within 2 weeks and the name of the winner will be posted on this website at that time.

ESSAY #3

In 1997, a philanthropist named John Templeton published a book called Discovering the Laws of Life. In that book, he gathered together the advice offered by the major religious scriptures of the world, various schools of philosophical thought, storytellers, scientists, artists, and historians regarding one crucial question: “What does it mean to live a good life?” To this day, that text remains a wonderful source of inspiration to people around the world, and this year, which marks the centenary of John Templeton’s birth, the publishing company that bears his name is releasing a revised commemorative edition of that book entitled The Essential Worldwide Laws of Life.

Written entries should be between 500 and 1,000 words.

There is a simple way you can discover your special purpose in life. Draw up a list of all the qualities you value in yourself and that other people admire in you. If you’re a humorous person, you have the ability to uplift and entertain. If clear thinking is your strong suit and you’re skilled at developing ideas, accept this as a gift that can benefit those around you in many ways. Since we sometime think of ourselves as lacking in good qualities, it is important to dig a little to unearth those skills and talents that may lie hidden.

Next, examine the ways in which you interact with other people and make a list of those ways that work the best. Does it excite you to teach someone a skill that will help him? Do you enjoy simply listening while someone shares a problem with you? Are you happiest when organizing a group for a project, or perhaps when encouraging someone who feels hopeless about herself and her life?

Finally, imagine what your world would be like under the best of all possible circumstances. Would it be clean, peaceful, and productive? Form a mental picture of the world that you’d like you and your loved ones to live in, and write down that vision in as much specific detail as possible.

Your mission in life is to have a “why” to live for, to use your best qualities in the service of the kind of world in which you would like to live. That is your purpose. This is what life expects of you. And when you live according to your purpose, setting goals that support that purpose, you may find the pieces of your life drawn together into a strong internal whole. Then, no matter how difficult life’s experiences may prove to be, you will be able to endure and even prevail.

Writing Prompt: Using the steps described above, consider your purpose. How might you fulfill it in the next five years? What guiding principles and goals will help you live according to your purpose in the next five years and beyond? If you keep your purpose in mind, where do you think you will find yourself in five years?

ESSAY 4

First Freedom Student Competition 2012/2013

The 2012/2013 competition is made possible

with the generous support of the

George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom

and the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation.

The First Freedom Student Competition is a first-semester national essay and video contest. It offers high-school students an opportunity to compete for $2,500 awards as they examine the history and current-day relevance of religious freedom, and then, by written essay or video production, present their evaluation. The competition is open to students in the United States and U.S. territories, and to American schools and American home-schooled students worldwide. We invite 9th - 12th grade students at all levels of academic placement to participate.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." First Amendment

The right to religious freedom is set forth in constitutional and international human-rights law. Today’s youth play an important role in upholding and strengthening this liberty; therefore, the First Freedom Student Competition has been developed to:

Help high-school students better understand religious freedom - its history and current significance;

Encourage high-school students to explore their individual and civic rights to and responsibilities for religious freedom;

Engage high-school teachers and students in the study of American history and the First Amendment; and

Challenge high-school students to strengthen their analytic writing and media skills.

The online student registration deadline is Monday, November 12, 2012. The postmark deadline for mailing the entry and its accompanying materials is Monday, November 26, 2012. (Click on the yellow buttons above for the topic, guidelines, and other important details.)

Bibliography – Works Cited

A bibliography or works-cited page is required to identify research sources and should follow teacher’s preferred bibliography or works-cited guidelines. For more information, refer to MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th edition at . (Click on links in left column for more in-depth instruction.)

Research on the topic is required from four or more sources, which may include: books, academic journals, news magazines, newspapers, government documents, publications or interviews with topic experts.

Research should include sources that give hearing to more than one side of a discussion.

General Encyclopedia (i.e., Wikipedia, Britannica, Americana, World Book) are not acceptable resources.

Reputable free web sources may be used only to obtain primary source materials (i.e. Internet Modern History Sourcebook), and the bibliography or works cited must list the primary document source as the reference.

Online databases that index reference books, journals, magazines and newspapers are valid sources and must be cited according to teacher's preferred format or the Modern Language Association’s guidelines. See again: .

Bibliography or works-cited page should follow essay on a separate page and be the last page.

Length

Address essay topic in 750 to 1,450 words.

Report the number of words used at the end of your essay text, prior to the bibliography or works-cited page.

Word count does not include the bibliography or works-cited page, nor works cited in footnotes, if footnotes are used.

To obtain essay word count without the number of words used in the bibliography or works cited, highlight essay text only, go to computer word-count tool (under tools on computer tool bar), and word-count tool will read only the highlighted words.

Format

Type essay in English, free from spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors.

Use Arial or Times New Roman font, 12-point.

Double-space essay with 1” margins – top, bottom, right and left.

Place essay title on first page, top center.

Create a header on each page, top right, that states ID number and page number. (Essay ID number will be received during online registration.)

To ensure fair and anonymous judging, student’s name, school and other identifying information may only appear on registration form, and MUST NOT appear on essay. (Please, no essay cover page.)

Timeline

1. Monday, November 12, 2012: Deadline for Online Registration (Required)

Students must register online on or before the Monday, November 12 deadline.

ID number will be received during online registration. After filling in Registration and Entry (Part I), Part II will immediately pop up with ID number, space for required signatures and more. Part II is to be mailed in with your entry.

2. After Online Registration:

Add essay ID number to essay header, top right, on all pages. If student registers online more than once to make changes, etc., the ID number of the final registration should be used.

Gather required handwritten signatures from parent/guardian and teacher sponsor.

Teacher or student must fill in class participation numbers (the "total" number of students in this student's class period who prepared essays and videos, not just the number of essays and videos being mailed/submitted to the competition).

Students must sign registration form.

3. Monday, November 26, 2012: Postmark Deadline for Mailed Entry

The "postmark deadline" is the last day for mailing your entry.

Include in your entry mailing six copies of essay and bibliography or works cited on white, 8.5” x 11” paper, single sided; then staple. (Note: We are aware that paper size may very slightly for students outside of the continental United States.)

Staple signed registration form to the top of one of the essay copies.

Place essay copies in a single, large envelope with registration copy on top. Do not fold.

Prepare and include in mailing a disc or CD containing the saved essay and bibliography or works cited in Microsoft Word or RTF format, clearly labeled with student name and essay ID number. (Students, please no other documents on the disc or CD, except competition document! Teachers, if you are mailing student entries, please include a separate disc for each student, since entries are filed separately by ID numbers, not by school, teacher, etc.)

Mail to:

First Freedom Student Competition

First Freedom Center

1321 E. Main Street

Richmond, VA 23219-3629

There is no entry fee.

No entries accepted electronically!

Note to Students Living Outside of the United States: Please mail your materials at an international postal rate that will get them to us within one week of the November 26 postmark deadline.

ANY ENTRY THAT DOES NOT CONFORM TO ALL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS WILL BE DISQUALIFIED!

Confirmation of Receipt

If you would like confirmation that entry arrived, please arrange receipt confirmation through postal or delivery service used.

It takes us several days to open and record all entries received; therefore, we are unable to respond to most emails and calls regarding receipt in a timely fashion.

Announcement of Winners

Winners will be announced on April 13, 2013, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, via email to all teacher sponsors, participating students and at . Winners and their teachers will receive additional communications, and award distribution will be coordinated through each student's teacher sponsor.

ESSAY 5 (deadline expired) juniors only

Prudential Spirit of Community Award

An essay of 750 words or less, addressing ALL of the following:

1. Inspiration

Explain what motivated you to do your volunteer work. How did you come up with the idea for your activity? Who

or what inspired you to get involved? How did your volunteer activity begin? Why did you feel it was important?

2. Effort

Explain the effort required to do your volunteer work. What exactly did you do, and how did you do it? What steps did you have to take to accomplish your goal? Did you recruit others to help, or work with any local or national organizations? What was the most difficult part of your project?

3. Impact

Describe what your volunteer activity accomplished. Who benefited, and how? How many people were involved or

directly affected? Will your project continue in the future?

4. Personal Growth

Describe what you, yourself, got out of your volunteer work. What did you learn from your experience? Did you acquire any new skills? What was the most memorable part of this activity? Can you recall a specific incident that made you feel particularly good about volunteering? What would you tell other young people about your experience?

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