Amador County – Two regional scholarship contests have been announced recently, and seniors from Amador County are eligible to enter.

Graduating seniors in Caltrans District 10, including Amador County, could get a $1,000 scholarship from the California Department of Transportation if they chose a transportation-related career.

Caltrans District 10 said seniors who are about to graduate from high schools in Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, or Tuolumne counties may be eligible for a $1,000 scholarship.

The student must have a minimum grade point average of 2.6 or better, as verified by their school counselors. They must also plan to pursue a college degree on any discipline that could be applied to transportation.

Interested students must submit an application and an essay of 500 to 750 words, writing about the applicant and why he or she is interested in transportation as a career. Applications must be postmarked by March 31. For more information, visit the websites for Caltrans, or the non-profit Transportation Foundation.

The Sacramento Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility also is offering a scholarship essay contest, based on a quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dr. Harry Wang, President of the PSR, and Dr. Bill Durston, Contest Chairman announced the contest in a release at the end of January. The Sacramento Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility scholarship essay contest is open to high school seniors in Sacramento and surrounding counties of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, San Joaquin, Solano, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba counties.

The contest offers $10,250 in total scholarship money to be awarded to the top ten winners. To enter, high school seniors should submit an original essay of 500 words or fewer describing their thoughts about a statement by Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, and World War II Supreme Allied Commander.

The essay contest is based on a statement by Eisenhower, who declared: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

Wang said high school seniors should “submit an essay describing their thoughts about the relevance of President Eisenhower’s words to the current state of our nation and our planet.”

Deadline for the Physicians for Social Responsibility essay contest submission is March 9. For contest details, see the group’s website, or call 916-955-6333.

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