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THE GEORGIA FIRE SPRINKLER ASSOCIATION ESSAY CONTEST

The Essay Theme for 2009-2010 is:

Tell because glow sprinklers have been critical as great as how they have helped to save lives as great as skill in Georgia; as great as because we would wish to have them commissioned in your home.

Contest Information

Read finish competition report prior to applying. Please review all mandate carefully. Entries which do not encounter ALL mandate will be automatically unfit from a competition but presentation to a student.

Applicant Eligibility Requirements

The GFSA State Scholarship Essay Contest is open to tall propagandize seniors in Georgia who devise to serve their preparation during a college/university or approved traffic propagandize in a United States. The grant is not formed upon monetary need. Relatives of GFSA house members might not enter.

You contingency be a tall propagandize comparison during a 2009-2010 propagandize year who will attend a college/university or traffic propagandize in a United States starting with a tumble 2010 semester.

Home-schooled students might request as prolonged as your march of investigate is homogeneous to which of a comparison in tall school.

Essay Requirements

All field contingency contention a text-only (no graphics included) minute in between 700-1,000 difference addressing a thesis specified by a GFSA. Each minute contingency be an strange work created by a person submitting focus as great as contingency be accompanied by a bibliography citing all sources of report used. Only entries submitted by to a GFSA email residence as settled in a focus routine have been accepted. Only a single minute per person submitting focus is allowed.

Essay Theme for 2009-2010:

Tell because glow sprinklers have been critical as great as how they have helped to save lives as great as skill in Georgia; as great as because we would wish to have them commissioned in your home.

Bibliography Requirements (a.k.a. Works Cited)

The bibliography is a list of sources we used when minute and/or researching your essay. Essays but a bibliography will not be accepted. When citing a source inside of a minute itself, place a series of a source as it corresponds to your bibliography in brackets ([1], [2], etc.) instead of typing a complete bibliography entrance each time.

Sample bibliography:

1. Blahz, John. Talk is Like Tango. FakeBook Publishers Co.; 2nd edition, 1998.
2. Fella, Heyder. Talkin’ to Me? Seriously Printing House; Reprint edition, 1993.
3. Shush, Sally Mae. “All Talk as great as No Study”

Sample source marker in minute text:

Blahz presents this evidence in a territory he calls “This is what we think.” [1] His indicate of perspective is strongly upheld by Fella’s avowal which “Everyone thinks what they want, that’s life.” [2] However, studies show…

Plagiarism Notice

Plagiarism.org defines piracy as “the crude use, or disaster to attribute, an additional person’s minute or ideas (intellectual property). It can be as pointed as a unconsidered slight to embody quotes or references when citing an additional source or as blatantly reprobate as intentionally duplicating an complete paper word for word as great as claiming it as your own work.” (www.plagiarism.org)

IMPORTANT: An minute containing any form of piracy will automatically be unfit from a competition but presentation to a student.

Deadline

Contest is singular to initial 500 authorised entries perceived by a GFSA email address.

Entries will be supposed from Aug 11, 2009 until 4:30 p.m. (EST), Sep 22, 2009. Late arrivals will not be accepted.

Judging Criteria

Members of a involuntary glow sprinkler industry, together with those in a tutorial as great as professional/installation fields, decider entries. Essays have been judged in 4 areas, as great as sold care is since to how great a minute addresses a specified competition theme:

Content

Accuracy

Creativity/Originality

Spelling/Grammar/Punctuation

Prizes

A sum of $3,250 is awarded to 3 winners.

First place inhabitant leader receives a grant of $1,500.

Second place inhabitant leader receives a grant of $1,000.

Third place leader receives a grant of $750.

The grant is paid but delay to a tutorial establishment in a student’s account.

Winner Notification

Winners of a scholarships will be told by their tall schools around email. All entries contingency have a functioning email residence for an director inside of their tall school.

All winners have been compulsory to yield a minute of reference minute from a teacher/guidance counselor/mentor alternative than a primogenitor upon presentation of his/her prize. If a tyro does not yield a minute of reference minute inside of a time support given, he/she forfeits a prize. All report supposing by a tyro is theme to corroboration by a GFSA.

Winners’ names as great as essays will be posted upon a GFSA web site in Oct 2009.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: we am home-schooled, Can we still apply?

A: Home-schooled students have been authorised for a competition as prolonged as we have been means to uncover we have been upon a class turn homogeneous to which of a tall propagandize senior.

Q: we am receiving a little college courses, does which matter?

A: As prolonged as we have been receiving college courses to addition your tall propagandize preparation (whether we attend a tall propagandize or have been home-schooled) as great as have been not deliberate a college tyro during a 2009-2010 propagandize year, we have been authorised for a contest.

Q: Can we get a grant endowment paid to me but delay if we devise to make make use of of it toward my college losses similar to books or housing?

A: GFSA pays a grant income but delay to a tutorial establishment in a student’s comment for fee and/or books. No income goes but delay to a student.

Q: we will be skipping a division or dual prior to we go to college, can we reason a income until we start?

A: GFSA pays a grant income but delay to a tutorial establishment for a tumble 2010 division as great as does not reason any supports over that.

Q: How do we embody graphics in my essay? I’d similar to to embody a little illustrations we drew as great as a chart.

A: You can’t. The minute competition is for text-only essays.

Q: we am a unfamiliar sell student, Can we still apply?

A: You contingency be a authorised proprietor of Georgia to be authorised for a contest.

Q: we do not own a home computer, can we still apply?

A: You can request from any mechanism as prolonged as we have been means to contention a minute in a correct format (see Application Process).

Q: How can we begin entertainment information?

A: Three great web sites have been www.sprinklernet.org, www.nfsa.org, as great as www.homefiresprinkler.org.

Application Process

Applications will usually be supposed online around a GFSA email address. Student contingency yield all report requested to be means to contention his/her entry.

Step 1: Read all competition information. You contingency determine which we have review a report as great as assimilate it prior to we can ensue to contention your essay. Entries which do not encounter ALL mandate will be automatically unfit from a competition but presentation to a student.

Step 2: Type your minute as great as bibliography in any word estimate module as great as save it as a text-only document.

Note: Do not embody your name or residence in a physique of a essay. All special formatting/characters such as indents, italics, underlines etc. will be separated when a request is saved as text-only. Punctuation characters such as commas, selection marks, etc. stay a same.

Step 3: On a apart page during a commencement of a document, fill out a following tyro information.

Students Full Name:
Home Street Address:
City, State, Zip Code:
Home Phone (with area code):
Home email Address:
Parent/Guardian Name:
Parent/Guardian Contact Number (with area code):
Your School Name:
School Street Address:
School City, State, Zip Code:
School Phone (with area code):
Principal’s or Counselor’s Name:
Principal’s or Counselor’s email address:
Anticipated Date of Graduation:

Step 4: Email a tyro information, minute as great as bibliography to essaycontest@georgiafiresprinkler.org.

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