HGHS Scholarships: Florida Hispanic Heritage Essay.
The Hispanic Heritage Month student art and essay contests and educator awards provide for three Florida students to earn a 4-YEAR FLORIDA PREPAID SCHOLARSHIP. Art Contest (Grades K-3) Governor Ron DeSantis’ and First Lady Casey DeSantis’ Hispanic Heritage Month Art Contest is open to all K-3 students in the state of Florida. Essay Contest.
Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the culture, traditions, and diversity of Hispanic people. This year's theme displays the arts as a means of celebration to get to one's soul, she adds. National Hispanic Heritage Month, which gives Hispanics an occasion to attend to their roots and others a chance to learn about the culture, begins September 15.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis invite all Florida students to participate in the 2019 Hispanic Heritage Month art and essay contests with the theme of “Celebrating Public Service: Hispanic Heritage Month 2019.”Students in grades K-3 have a chance to win a cash prize by submitting their original artwork, and students in grades.
First Lady Casey DeSantis’ Hispanic Heritage Month Essay Contest is open to all 4-12 students in Florida. Each student will submit one essay no longer than 500 words based on this year’s theme. Three winners will be selected: one elementary school student (grades 4-5), one middle school student (grades 6-8) and one high school student (grades 9-12).
Entries must be mailed to Executive Office of the Governor: Hispanic Heritage Month Committee, 400 S. Monroe Street, Suite LL-10, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, postmarked by Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Each student may enter only one essay, no longer than 500 words and typed or handwritten in print, rather than cursive writing.
Be of Hispanic Heritage Have a minimum overall unweighted 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale (or equivalent) for high school students and undergraduate students Plan to enroll full-time (12 credit hours) and pursue a degree in an accredited college or university in Orange, Seminole, Osceola or Lake County in the fall and spring of the upcoming scholarship year.
The Hispanic Heritage Month essay contest is open to all Florida students in grades 4 through 12. Three winners will be selected: one elementary student (grades 4-5), one middle school student (grades 6-8) and one high school student (grades 9-12).