SIFE Student Leader Scholarship in Honor of the SIFE Alumni of the Year

Purpose

To recognize SIFE students whose life direction has been positively impacted as a result of their involvement with SIFE.

Five $1,000 scholarships will be awarded.

Applicants must:

Be a registered member of a SIFE team that competes at a SIFE USA Regional Competition during the year of application and the year the award is to be paid.
Continue his/her SIFE participation at the same school or transfer to a school with an established SIFE team and earn the SIFE Service Leadership Award the year the scholarship is paid.

*If qualifications are not maintained during the year the scholarship is paid, then the recipient will forfeit the full amount of the award.

Qualified applicants will be evaluated based on:

How significant a change in direction has the applicant’s life taken through their involvement in SIFE?
How likely is this change to impact the future of the applicant?

Applicants must submit the following information online:

Cover page with name, school, address and email.
Nomination letter from the applicant’s Sam Walton Fellow.
An essay (two-page maximum) describing themselves, how the direction of their life has been positively impacted through their joining and participating in SIFE and how they feel that this change will impact their future.

To apply on-line, please click here.

A panel of at least three past recipients of the SIFE Alumni of the Year Award will review the applications and select the recipients.

All entries must be received through the online application process February 6, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. CST.