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ATA Legacy Scholarship Program
Call for Applications
General
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The Alabama Turfgrass Association Legacy Scholarship Program offers educational aid to the children and grandchildren of ATA members. Two scholarships will be awarded each year in the amount of $1,250 each.
Applications will be reviewed by the Alabama Turfgrass Association Board of Directors. All decisions of the committee will be final. All scholarship award checks will be made payable to the university. The ATA Committee reserves the right to make their selection.
Eligibility
1. One or more of the applicant’s parents or grandparents must have been an Alabama Turfgrass Association member for five or more consecutive years and must be a currently active ATA member. Competition is open to natural or adoptive offspring of ATA members. Children or grandchildren of deceased members are also eligible if the member was currently active at the time of his or her death.
2. The student must be enrolled fulltime at an accredited institution of higher learning. Rising high school seniors will not be considered.
3. Past winners are ineligible to apply the following year. They may reapply after a one-year hiatus.
4. Although any number of students from the same family may apply, only one student per family will be eligible to receive an award.
Criteria
1. Applicants will be evaluated based on academic achievement, extracurricular and community involvement, leadership and outside employment.
2. The student’s composition of an original 100-word essay relating to his/ her goals. The essay must be original and not previously submitted to ATA.
How to Apply
Students may complete the application on-line at alaturfgrass.org or they can mail or e-mail the application to ATA at the address below. Deadline October 15.
Transcripts from all high schools and colleges attended may be mailed or emailed to the address below.
The 100-word essay must be mailed or e-mailed to the address below.
Scholarship Committee Alabama Turfgrass Association P.O. Box 70, Auburn, AL 36831 Or e-mail: mailbox@alaturfgrass.org
