Name: The Joe Foss Independence Day Scholarship Essay Contest
Award Amount: $5000
Information And Eligibility: The Joe Foss Independence Day Scholarship Essay Contest is giving away a $5000 college scholarship to the applicant who can best write an essay on the theme “Oh Say Can You See: What the Star Spangled Banner Means to Me.” The scholarship essays will be evaluated based on creativity, theme development, clarity of ideas, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Joe Foss Independence Day Scholarship Essay Contest applicants must be a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior in high school. Essays must be the applicants original work, must be at least 1500 words in length, and essays must include a cover sheet. Quotations may be used in the Joe Foss Independence Day Scholarship Essay, but sparingly and all sources must be clearly identified. All scholarship entries should be uploaded to the Joe Foss Independence Day Scholarship Essay website by the official contest deadline.
Deadline: July
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Request to Update or Remove This Scholarship. The CollegeWhale ID number for this Scholarship is #12723. This Scholarship was added in June 2011 and last reviewed by a member of our staff on June, 2025.
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