USA Rice encourages high school seniors throughout rice country to invest some vacation time in planning an innovative promotion campaign for September, National Rice Month. Three scholarship prizes, sponsored by Dow AgroSciences, totaling $8,500 are available. The grand prize is a $4,000 scholarship and a trip to the 2015 USA Rice Outlook Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the scholarship presentation. The second-place winner will receive $3,000 and third-place, $1,500.
High school graduating students in the 2015-16 school year that live in rice-growing states -- Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas -- can qualify to enter by conducting a promotion campaign in their local communities during September with U.S.-grown rice as the central theme. Entries are due October 15.
For more information about the scholarship,
visit the contest web page.