$500 Scholarship to Prevent Drug/Alcohol Abuse

Alert Magazine is offering a $500 scholarship to a high school senior with the best essay on drug abuse prevention.  Must have a 2.5 or higher GPA and follow the following guidelines:

Write an essay about a personal encounter you or someone you know has had with drug and/or alcohol abuse. In your essay explain how the situation was dealt with, what you learned from it, what others can learn from the experience, and what was right or wrong (in your opinion) about the way the incident or problem was handled. Scholarship essays are judged in the same way that essays written for a high school English class would be: thesis statement, supporting content, grammar, punctuation, etc.

Essays must be typed, double-spaced, and 650–800 words in length.

Essays must include an official copy of your high school transcripts.

Essays must also include a recent photo. Scholarship winners will have their picture reprinted in our magazine along with their winning essay, so please send a good quality color photo (no blurry printouts).

No application is needed and there is no deadline, but you must meet the eligibility requirements and include all of the items listed above to be considered.

For more information, go to their website:  http://www.alertmagazine.org/scholarship.php