Youth Scholarship

2012 Essay Competition For Children of Public Employees

ENTRY GUIDELINES

AWARD

To promote driver safety and awareness among young people, Civil Service Employees Insurance Company (CSE) will award in each of the following areas: Northern California, Southern California, and Arizona/Nevada/Utah one $1500, one $1000, one $500, and one $250 scholarship. A maximum of one each will be awarded to a child of a full-time public employee, based on an essay discussing ways the teenage automobile accident rate can be reduced. CSE, a California-based company, has provided personal automobile insurance to public employees and their families for over half a century.

ELIGIBILITY

• Applicant must be a California, Arizona, Nevada or Utah resident attending his or her senior year of high school.
• Applicant must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0.
• Applicant must have been accepted to an accredited two- or four-year college or university, or trade school, in the United States, with intent to enroll as a full-time freshman by the Fall 2012 session.
• The applicant's parent or legal guardian must be currently employed full-time by -- or if retired or deceased, must have been employed full-time by -- a government entity. This definition of public employee includes, but is not limited to, peace officers; firefighters; educators; postal employees; military personnel; and federal, state, and local government workers.
• CSE employees, employees' relatives, and its agents and vendors are not eligible.

PROCEDURE

Submit in a single packet:

• An essay that discusses ways the teenage automobile accident rate can be reduced. The essay must be your original work, written by you, and be typed (double spaced). It must be in English and must not exceed five hundred words. Enclose two copies of your essay. Include your name, and the name and city of your high school, on one copy only. Do not write your name or the name and city of your school on the second copy. Applicants will be evaluated on the originality, creativity and written proficiency displayed in their essays.
• The signed and completed application form.
• A letter of recommendation stating that you are a senior in good standing for graduation with the class of 2012. The letter must be written on school stationery and be signed by a faculty member or school administrator.
  
• A letter of acceptance from the post-secondary institution you will be attending full-time by the fall of 2012. The letter must be written on the institution's stationery and be signed by a representative of that institution.
• Your official school transcript in a sealed envelope.
  Send all materials to Scholarship Contest, CSE Insurance Group, P.O. Box 8041, Walnut Creek, California, 94596-8041. All materials must be received by Friday, May 11, 2012. Regular mail is preferred; avoid certified or other special mailings. No fax or electronic submissions will be accepted. All directions on the application must be followed exactly, and all requirements for submission must be met. Materials must be legible. CSE is not responsible for lost or misdirected application materials.
• Scholarship winners will be notified by May 31, 2012. No other applicants will be notified

PLEASE PRINT AND COMPLETE THE APPLICATION FORM

ALL MATERIALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY CSE NO LATER THAN MAY 11, 2012.

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