Who Can Apply:
- Children deserve to live long, happy, and healthy lives and should be safe at school.
- Unfortunately, many children face injuries and harm at school, often on the playground. More than 200,000 children go to the emergency room every year as a result of an injury on the playground and 15 child fatalities occur from playground equipment each year.
- It is of critical importance to take precautions to keep children safe and injury-free by providing proper supervision, age-appropriate equipment, materials to soften falls to the surface, and maintaining playground equipment.
- This scholarship seeks to honor the memory of Andrea Tyrah DeBruhl by promoting playground safety awareness to protect children from harm or injury.
- Any undergraduate student who is interested in pursuing early childhood education and has a 3.0 GPA or higher may apply for this scholarship.
Submission: To apply, tell us why playground safety is important to you and how you’ll ensure that your future playgrounds are safe.
Deadline: June 30, 2024
Amount: $500
Learn More: https://bold.org/scholarships/andrea-tyrah-debruhl-memorial-scholarship-for-future-teachers/