Essay Scholarship Contest
Local High School students compete for College scholarships.
Optimist International, our parent organization, actively
promotes "Bringing Out the Best in Kids". This essay contest is sponsored
locally by the Optimist Club of Issaquah, to give young people a forum
in which to express their views about our world.
Local winners automatically move to the next level, which offers $2,500 in scholarship money.
In choosing which students are accepted each year, studies show that many
Colleges and Universities increasingly stress the importance of a students'
participation in extra-curricular activities.
Extra 'weighting' is routinely applied to community service projects
performed and contests such as this.
For more information contact us at: EssayContest [at] Optimistis.org (replace the [at] with @).
Click here download entry form & rules for this year's contest.
IMPORTANT! The Optimist Club of Issaquah is not a sponsoring Club for the 2012 Essay Contest.
To find the sponsoring Club nearest you, please e-mail the Programs Department at programs@optimist.org.
The Optimist Creed
Promise Yourself....
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.