With the cost of a college education steadily rising every year, every opportunity should be explored for young people heading to college. While monetary aid comes in many forms; financial aid, grants, college funds etc. there are some scholarships for high school seniors out there that can provide additional funds for school.
One of the most unique and accessible scholarship opportunity comes from Duck brand tape. Every year they issue a $5,000 dollar scholarship to the couple wearing the most unique Duck tape outfits to their school’s prom. The name of the scholarship is the “Stuck-at-Prom” contest, which draws a field of 4,000 entries every year. A simple search on the internet will bring up many pictures of some of the previous years entries.
Any high school student who is able to attend a prom function is able to enter this scholarship competition as long as they are 14 years of age or older. With the age requirement meet any student in the United States attending a prom has the chance to win the $5,000 prize.
Searching for the competition on the sponsor’s website duckbrand.com will show all of the fine print legal info. Mostly the major rules of the competition follow the major rules of any school associated project. Plagiarism is completely unaccepted. In this case however instead of copying a paper contestants are prohibited from knowingly copying the copyrighted works of any third party.
All of the entries in the competition are judged in the following categories; workmanship, originality, use of color, accessories, and use of duct tape. Beyond that the imagination of the contestants and their ability to craft their duct tape apparel is left to them. While copying any designs of previous winners or any other third party designs is strictly forbidden a good idea gathering tool is looking up images of duct tape apparel online. While each couple is allowed one entry, there is no stipulation against re-entering every year assuming the couple hasn’t already won. Assuming the ability to attend a prom at school for three years, the odds of winning continue to rise.
Imagination is the limit for these duct tape prom outfits, if unsure of where to start here is a quick tip to get the creative ideas going. To make a pliable and effective duct tape fabric try laying the strips of duct tape sticky side up with a one inch overlap. After creating a large sheet of fabric use tissue paper to cover the sticky side of the the sheet. This will produce a large sheet of duct tape fabric that is simple to manipulate. A large and co-operative piece of tape fabric is ready for design. Treat it like any other fabric and design away!
With education costs rising year after year, “Stuck-at-Prom” offers high school students a chance at a substantial scholarship. Having almost no restrictions, and the ability to re-submit this contest is a excellent example of the different unique opportunities available to students to earn money to continue their education. In the end when financing a college education the bank wont care, odd scholarship or traditional.