Florida high school seniors can win college scholarships by entering the Florida Association of Realtors Scholarship/Essay Contest. The contest offers up to $6,500 in scholarship funding.
Students must write a typed, double-spaced essay - 500 words or less - on the topic “How Does a Realtor Professional Benefit the Community?”
Students are allowed to write about anything in the range of Realtor professionals who work in a variety of fields including residential brokerage, commercial brokerage, industrial and office brokerage, farm and land brokerage, real estate appraising, property management, land development and real estate counseling.
Essays also may address such points as the benefits of homeownership to society, or to families on a personal level, or how the selling of commercial real estate encourages economic growth.
Prize money will go to both the first- and second-place essays in each of the Association’s 13 districts in the state.
Students turning in the top district-winning essays will each win a $1,500 scholarship prize while the second-place entries will each receive a $500 scholarship award.
The 13 district-winning essays will go on to compete to win three $5,000 FAR scholarships on the statewide level, for a total of $41,000 in scholarship awards.
All essays, along with an official Essay Cover Form, must be submitted no later than Friday, March 25 to the Florida Association of Realtors, 7025 Augusta National Drive, P.O. Box 725025, Orlando 32872-5025.
Applications are available at the media section of FAR’s Media Center Web site, http://media.living.net.
FAR’s statewide scholarship awards program is open only to high school seniors who reside in Florida and plan on continuing their education at a college, university, technical school or other institution of higher learning.