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Florida Association of Realtors® offers seniors a chance to win up to $6,500 in college scholarship awards
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 24, 2004 -- Attention Florida high school seniors: Time is running out for you to win up to $6,500 to help pay for college tuition next year. Better start writing -- there’s only a month left until the March 25, 2005, deadline to enter the Florida Association of Realtors® (FAR) 2005-2004 Scholarship/Essay Contest for High School Seniors, which offers a total of $41,000 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?” 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.
Once again, the scholarship program will benefit even more students from across the state, with prize money going 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, accompanied by an official Essay Cover Form, must be submitted no later than March 25, 2005, to the Florida Association of Realtors, 7025 Augusta National Drive, P.O. Box 725025, Orlando, FL, 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. Or go to the public-accessible Florida Association of Realtors' Media Center Web site at http://media.living.net and click on "2005 FAR Scholarship Contest" to find the scholarship contest application, official cover form and other materials.
The Florida Association of Realtors (FAR), the voice for real estate in Florida, provides programs, services, continuing education, research and legislative representation to its more than 120,000 members in 70 boards/associations.
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