ARCAP's Global Warming Scholarship Essay Contest

ARCAP $4000 scholarship winner announced 
 
Megan Strickland, a senior at Little Rock Central High School was announced as the winner of the Arkansas Climate Awareness Essay contest at the Arkansas Earth Day Festival on Saturday. Miss Strickland's essay entitled, " Global Warming: A Blanket of Misconceptions and Trouble", was judged best among over 100 entries.
Dr. Corbet Lamkin, Vice President of Student Affairs at Southern Arkansas University, introduced Miss Strickland to the crowd at Earth Day. She plans to use her scholarship to attend the University of North Carolina.
Miss Strickland will read her essay aloud at a Capstone Event on Global Warming sponsored by ARCAP at the Clinton Library in August.
A crowd of more than 8000 attended Arkansas Earth Day where ARCAP sponsored a coffee at the Clinton School of Public Service for environmental leaders including the Governor, and sponsored the event's carbon neutral status. ARCAP also manned a booth among the 100 others to distribute literature on global warming and energy saving. 
 
Winner of global warming contest will receive $4,000 college scholarship
Today the Arkansas Climate Awareness Project (ARCAP) officially launched its global warming essay contest for the 2006-2007 school year and announced it will begin accepting essays immediately. The global warming themed essay contest is open to all students currently enrolled in an Arkansas high school. The winner will receive a $4,000 college scholarship and an invitation to read the essay at a statewide gathering of community leaders in summer 2007.
The deadline for submitting an essay is March 1, 2007 and the winner will be announced at the 2007 Arkansas Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 21 at the Riverfront Amphitheatre in downtown Little Rock.  Essays should be between 600 and 2,500 words, double spaced using 12-point font, and submitted with a cover sheet via email to contest@arclimate.org.
ARCAP has created an essay committee consisting of nine education and community leaders from different regions of the state to help promote and administer the contest. The committee will select one judge from its committee and one each from the Arkansas Science Teachers Association and the Arkansas Environmental Education Association to make up the three judge panel that will choose the contest winner.
"The essay contest is a unique way to inform Arkansans about the threats global warming poses to the Natural State," said Don Richardson, ARCAP director. "Our hope is that the contest encourages future leaders of Arkansas to also lead the way in combating global warming throughout the world." 
"I'm excited to work with ARCAP on the global warming essay contest," said Dr. Corbet Lamkin, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Southern Arkansas University and member of the essay committee. "This is a great way for students and teachers to learn about global warming impacts on Arkansas and prepare the next generation of Arkansans to help find solutions."