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Aug 17, 2015
ARLINGTON, VA -- USA Rice encourages high school seniors throughout rice country to invest the waning days of summer vacation in planning an innovative promotion campaign for September, National Rice Month (NRM). 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. Scholarship entries will be judged on their creativity and impact in promoting U.S.-grown rice, NRM and the importance of rice in their state.
Entries are due October 15. Applicants can submit a synopsis of their promotion in a variety of ways, including in video format.
For more information about the scholarship, visit the contest web page.