Carmel, IN — Williams Comfort Air, heating and cooling specialists located in Carmel, Indiana, is now accepting nominations for its ExtraordinAIRy Treasures annual scholarship program. Six one-time scholarships totaling $5,000 will be awarded to high school seniors who are seen as ExtraordinAIRy Treasures to our future. These students will have demonstrated ExtraordinAIRy life skills including community service, leadership activities, and family commitment. Students from Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan, and Shelby counties who will enroll in a university, community college, or vocational/trade school upon graduation can be nominated. There are no requirements for GPA or career choice.
Four $1,000 scholarships and two $500 scholarships will be awarded based on a 400-word essay, submitted by anyone, such as a parent, teacher, counselor, neighbor, or employer. Essays should convey why this high school senior is an ExtraordinAIRy Treasure to our future by including an overview of the nominee’s life skills in action such as integrity, kindness, and commitment to community to name a few. In addition, each nomination must include two additional references from adults who interact with the student in either academic or extracurricular activities. Williams Comfort Air will accept nominations from February 1, 2010 through April 13, 2010.
A Williams Comfort Air committee will determine the six scholarship recipients. Three $1000 scholarships will be awarded to the top three students. The remaining $1000 and $500 scholarships will be awarded based on an on-line vote from April 21, 2010 to May 12, 2010. ExtraordinAIRy Treasures Scholarship recipients will be announced the week of May 17, 2010.
Nominate an “ExtraordinAIRy” student in your community today at www.ExtraordinAIRyTreasures.com.
Graduating from high school is the end of an era. Gone are the days of carefree learning and socializing with friends. Now you need to decide what you are going to do with the rest of your life and that is no small decision to make. While lots of teens see high school as a chore, something to get through and leave behind, the reality is that high school is the last frontier to cross before the responsibility of adulthood takes center stage. Sure studying is work and school isn’t always fun and games but guess what? After high school is over you will come to appreciate it for the relatively carefree time of life that it is. It may sound cliché but once you graduate high school real life begins and how that life plays out is shaped by what you decide to do after high school.
