The Fauquier Business and Professional Women (FBPW) organization awards one scholarship to a graduating female senior, planning to go on to college to continue her studies, from each public high school in Fauquier County.
Each scholarship is a one-time award of $500 presented in the Spring of the student’s senior year.
Applicants must complete a short Scholarship Application form, consisting of four questions, and write a brief essay in response to a specific question listed on the application form.
Applicants should write their names only on the cover sheet of the Scholarship Application form, not on the question page or their essay page(s).
Completed Scholarship Applications forms with essays
attached must be returned to FBPW by
If selected as the winner, the applicant must agree to have her essay published in the FBPW newsletter, to attend an FBPW meeting to read her essay to the membership, and to write one follow-up letter to the FBPW newsletter during the course of her first college year.
Fauquier Business and Professional Women is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting personal and professional leadership among women. FBPW provides its members with opportunities for seminars, leadership development, and professional networking; it also provides financial and in-kind support to other organizations, workshops for high-school students, college scholarships, recognition of outstanding business leaders, and community leadership on issues of importance in Fauquier County. FBPW is affiliated with BPW/USA, whose mission is: To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information.
www.fauquierbpw.org
(Name
on this cover page ONLY – please PRINT clearly.)
Please list all colleges and universities to which you
have applied, and indicate any acceptances or final decisions:
(Please do NOT write your name on this page.)
What are your plans after graduation from high school?
What is your planned course of study?
What is your GPA? _____________
Describe your high school achievements (academic, athletics, arts, community, etc.).
ESSAY QUESTION
Imagine this: You were
appointed to a special National Youth Commission to advise the next President
of the
INSTRUCTIONS: Discuss this in 500 words or less.
You will be evaluated on content, grammar, and writing style. The winning essay
will be printed in the Fauquier Business and Professional Women newsletter, and
you will be expected to read it at the June 19 meeting of the FBPW membership.
Please attach these two pages to your essay and return them to the