The deadline is March 25 for entries into the Florida Association of Realtors’ scholarship contest.
Winners receive up to $6,500 to help pay for college tuition and all high school seniors are eligible.
Students must write a typed, double-spaced essay, 500 words or less, on the topic “How Does a Realtor Professional Benefit the Community?”
According to a FAR spokesman, “This topic gives students a wide range of real estate professional fields to write about, including residential brokerage, commercial brokerage, industrial and office brokerage, farm and land brokerage, real estate appraising, property management, land development and real estate counseling, to name just a few of the general specialties.”
There will be 256 scholarships with each of the state’s 13 FAR districts getting two winners.
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, accompanied by an official Essay Cover Form, must be submitted no later than March 25 to the Florida Association of Realtors, 7025 Augusta National Drive, P.O. Box 725025, Orlando 32872-5025.
Scholarship contest rules, topic and the required essay cover form are available at public and private senior high school guidance offices throughout the state, and at the Florida Association of Realtors’ Media Center Web site at http://media.living.net.