Announcing CEOS 2024 Essay Scholarship Contest

Collaborate to Educate Ours Sons (CEOS) is pleased to announce its 2024 Essay Contest for scholarships for the 2024/2025 Academic year. We will award at least four scholarships to sophomore, junior, or senior males in High School, Vocational School, College and/or Seminary. Two of the four scholarships will be exclusively for African Americans. These scholarships are for tuition support to assist young men to achieve their goal of graduation from vocational school, college and/or seminary.

ELIGIBILITY

Entrants must be high school, vocational school, college, or seminary sophomore.

Contest Themes

In 800-1,250 words, write an original essay discussing the theme(s) in one of the following topics:

1. AI (Artificial Intelligence), is it a blessing or a curse? What should be the ethics of its use? How do you think we should use it for the betterment of humanity?
2. Racial equity and social justice are these issues still relevant or are they just relics of past generations on which we hold? What do you see as the way forward?
3. Should financial literacy be part of the High School curriculum? Discuss the pros and cons of your position on the issue.
4. Reparation, what are its aims and objectives? Is it idealism, realism, or pipedream?

Instructions

1. After you write your essay, use your cell phone or other device to video yourself reading your essay. Please submit this video recording in MP.4 format with your application.
2. Submissions must be original work, have a title, and include a word count (word count does not apply to the list of sources.) Cite all sources, including articles you have written.

    

3. You must write on one of the topics provided; we will not accept essays on other topics. Please use the topic as the title of your essay.
4. Entries must be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font with a one-inch margin on all sides of the page. Follow the standards of content and style as outlined in MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Ed. You should use it to: (1) document sources in the text of your essay (see pages 123-212); (2) format the list of works cited (see sample page at end of the MLA Handbook); and (3) to format margins and indentation (see sample page also at end of Handbook).
5. A bibliography must be included. AT LEAST three of the sources you cite must be primary sources, i.e. books, periodicals, or newspapers that you have researched. (A primary source is a document, speech, or other sort of evidence written, created, or otherwise produced during the time under study. Primary sources offer an inside view of a particular event. You may access them online.) Other sources may be online-only materials, provided you cite them correctly as such. We will disqualify entries lacking three primary sources. Wikipedia and similar articles are not acceptable sources and if used will disqualify your entry.
6. Do not place your name or your school’s name on any of the pages of the essay. Only the registration form should include this information.
7. You MUST submit your essay in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format. We will not consider essays submitted in any other format.
8. We will not accept Faxed submissions.

HOW TO ENTER

1. Submit your Essays via email in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format by 11:59pm EST no later than November, 10 2024, to essays@collaboratetoeducate.org.
2. We will notify the 24 essay scholarship winners the end of September 2024
3. We will award Scholarships on November 10, 2024.

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