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Oz Moving Storage Scholarship (ID 1624)


Scholarship Description

Start Date:
4/1/2016
Deadline:
6/1/2016
Website:
https://www.ozmoving.com/scholarship
Amount:
$1,000
Description:
Oz Moving & Storage knows that moving to college is tough; leaving your family behind to live on your own is just one of the many challenges that new students face. We also love to give back to the community. That’s why we want to make everything a little bit easier. Oz will award one (1) talented student a $1,000 scholarship this year. We will choose a winner based on a creative multi-media piece or well-written essay entry that relates back to the subject of moving. You only need to pick one!

OPTION 1: SUBMIT A PICTURE

People love pictures like the one above; an image of a sailboat at sea featuring a quote from one of America’s great novelists Mark Twain. Something about the juxtaposition of the words and the background makes both more powerful. Creating pictures like these doesn’t require photoshop mastery, or a mastery of artistic form. More than anything, it takes the inspiration and creativity to see imagery in language, and messages in the world’s great sights.
This is where you come in; we want you to create a picture like this about moving. It can be about moving to college, moving from your old hometown, seeing your friends or family move, or anything else moving related- it’s up to your creative spirit. Pick an appropriate background that will transform your words, and a quote that compliments that scene like any good subtext would. A great picture will evoke a great story much longer than the quote chosen, much wider than the picture can capture.

1. CHOOSE A PICTURE AND A QUOTE, THEN COMBINE THEM USING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOOLS

§ https://www.canva.com/ (free!)
§ http://www.picmonkey.com/ (free!)
§ https://buffer.com/pablo (free!)
§ Photo-editing software (Such as Adobe Photoshop)

2. SHARE YOUR PHOTO ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THE HASHTAG #OZMOVESME.

Be sure that your privacy settings will allow us to see your post! If you’re in doubt, you can tag Oz Moving! (We encourage using Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest as Facebook’s privacy settings can be difficult to figure out.) Bonus points if your quote seems to be engaging with people!

3. GIVE US A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR NEW PICTURE BY ANSWERING ONE QUICK QUESTION FOR US.

You will be asked to write a few paragraphs about your quote. Tell us your inspiration. Fill us in!

OPTION 2: WRITE A SHORT ESSAY

If you’re not feeling picturesque, you may also write us an essay based on the following topic. Bear in mind you still need to pick a quote:

Choose a documented quote that you think relates to how you feel about moving to a new town or leaving your hometown for college. Give us the background and context of the quote but then explain why you chose it and how it embodies the feeling of moving to a new city. The essay should be 2-3 [pages (500-750 words)

Email the essay as an attachment in .doc or .docx form to [email protected]. The filename should include “Your Name” as submitted via our google form, and should come from the same email address you filled in on that form.

Your essay will be judged on originality, creativity, readability, grammar & spelling, and number of plugs for Oz Moving & Storage (Maybe not that last one.)

Contact Information

Email:
[email protected]

Eligibility

Gender:
NA
Eligibility:
Only students enrolled in college or with an expected college enrollment date up to 12 months in the future or eligible to enter. Oz Moving & Storage reserves the right to verify date of High School graduation and/or college enrollment for any entrant. No more than one (1) entry per participant is allowed. Essays and pictures are subject to review for plagarism. These rules are subject to change at any time by Oz Moving & Storage.

Employees of Oz Moving & Storage and their immediate families are ineligible.
Special Criteria:
FILL OUT THE FORM ON THE WEBSITE TO ENTER