This post is more for schools and school districts around the country. Dear reader, if you have any influence with one in your community, please make this suggestion to them; recommend that they include a page on their website devoted to scholarship opportunities.
This is a link to a scholarship page at the West Caldwell High School in Caldwell, South Carolina.
And then also encourage a policy which ensures that no opportunities be turned away. While it seems like such a simple suggestion, I have been amazed at the different counselors and school district superintendents, teachers and others that have said that an award offered by a group is not enough to get their attention or we don't have time to add another contest to our curriculum. Students have different interests and abilities and what appeals to one may not interest the next. It is our responsibility to offer opportunities for all.
Optimist Clubs promote opportunity. I hope our schools will do the same.
