Legacy of Life Scholarship

Endowed by the Leslie Ebert Memorial Fund 

Prizes:
$5,000 First Place Scholarship
$3,000 Second Place Scholarship
$1,000 Honorable Mention-Six to be Awarded

Deadline:
Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 11:59pm

Theme:
“Organ & Tissue Donation: Persuade Someone to Give the Gift of a Lifetime.”  Write a 1,000 word persuasive argument on the topic, fiction or non fiction, with sources cited.

Sponsor:
Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC), the D.C. metropolitan area’s organ recovery agency, and its Donor Family Council. WRTC is dedicated to educating people from all walks of life in our community about the benefits of organ and tissue donation. 

Rules:
Participants must follow ALL competition rules, including submitting essay via email.  Click here for all important information.

For Rules and Entry Form, Click link below! 

Rules (PDF File)
NOTE: When using the PDF version of the entry form, it must be printed, filled out by hand, and then scanned and emailed as an attachment with the essay.

Entry Form (Word File)
NOTE: This file can be typed and emailed as an attachment with essay.

REMEMBER!
You will be disqualified if there are no citations, if there are more than 1,000 words or your submission is late!

Winners:
Eight winners will be selected from area high schools in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland.  The first place winner will receive a $5,000 scholarship.  The second place winner will receive a $3,000 scholarship.  Six honorable mention winners will receive a $1,000 scholarship each. 

When:
Winners ONLY will be notified on or about May 18, 2013.  Winning essays will be posted on this website. 

Donor mother Connie Sprow presents Legacy of Life Scholarship to Adam Gause of Dumfries.

PRIVACY POLICY

Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC) does not collect personal information from website (www.beadonor.org) visitors.   Numerical data (e.g. numbers of visitors to the site or a particular page) are collected for statistical purposes only.  Students who submit essays will not be enrolled to receive extraneous emails and/or solicitations of any sort.  Only scholarship winners will be contacted by the staff of WRTC.  Scholarship recipients should note that their name, home town, high school, college/institution the student plans to attend, prize amount and winning essay will be listed on WRTC’s website and may also be used in other promotional materials (e.g., in WRTC newsletters, press materials and on WRTC’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/beadonor).  Any photos submitted by the students or taken during the official in-person presentation of the scholarship may also be included in WRTC promotional materials.