Foundation Announces 2008 Winners Of

$10,000 College Scholarship Awards Program

The Credit Union Foundation of Maryland and the District of Columbia (CUFMDDC) is pleased to announce the winners of their $10,000 College Essay Scholarship topic for 2008.  The ten $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to the winning applicants in May. 

This year’s essay topic resulted in some creative thinking among the more than 200 entrants:

Imagine yourself twelve years in the future.  It’s the year 2020.  High school graduation seems like a distant memory.  You’re imagining the changes and innovations that have occurred in your life since you walked across that stage and received your diploma twelve years ago. 

You pause for a moment to focus on the changes in financial services since 2008, and in particular, the changes and improvements in services and products provided by your credit union where you’ve been a member for many years. 

Now, in 750 words or less, use your imagination and vision to describe the changes and improvements in credit union services that you foresee will unfold from 2008 to 2020 -

“We believe that this scholarship program provides a number of benefits to both credit unions and their members,” noted Foundation Chairman Rob Windsor.  “The awardees receive needed financial assistance to help them meet their educational expenses.  The essay topic provokes innovative and useful responses that can be used to help credit unions better envision the services their college-age members foresee themselves using in the future. And credit unions can use the scholarship offering to recruit young members while engaging their advice on matters that are critical to the credit union movement”.

To view the 2008 winning essays, click here