“The Things They Carried” $1000 Scholarship Contest
March 18, 2012 @ 12:00am
Location: Online
“The Things They Carried” $1000 Scholarship Contest
WJCT, the Duval County Public Schools and the Jacksonville Public Library announce a scholarship essay contest based on Tim O’Brien’s book “The Things They Carried”, a collection of related stories about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, originally published in hardcover in 1990.
This scholarship is available to graduating high school seniors (public, private or homeschooled) in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau or St. Johns counties in Florida whose permanent address is in one of these counties and will be in a program of study in by the fall of 2012 at an accredited institution of higher education (this includes a four-year college or university, a two- year community/state college, or a vocational/technical school) or joining the military.
For more details and official rules, click here.
