Scholarship

Win a $2,000 college scholarship!

The Columbus Rotary Club will award a $2000 scholarship to the one “best citizen fencer” at the Arnold Fencing Classic 2010! The $2000 scholarship will be held in your name until you enter college and can be used at your college of choice.

Criteria in selecting Nominees:

• Must be a competitor in the 2010 Arnold Fencing Classic
• Overall competitive participation and success in fencing
• Academic success
• Quality of essay
• Fencer must be between ages 13-16 y.o.

To apply for the scholarship fencer must submit:

• Completed registration for at least one event at the Arnold Fencing Classic 2010
• Fencing Bio which includes your name, and fencing history (name, age, weapons, rankings, tournament achievements)
• High School/college current transcript
• 2010 Essay Theme “One blade to rule them all”
• Submit all items via email (scan and email all items) to scholarship@arnoldfencingclassic.com no later than February 11, 2009. Please use “AFC Essay” in the subject line of your essay and include your name and phone number.

Essay Guidelines

Essay entitled “One blade to rule them all”

"One blade to rule them all" is a slogan of the Arnold Fencing Classic 2010. Therefore, your essay should support and position fencing as a dominating sport and may have different ideas on history, development, olympic performance or story of fencing with specific examples on how fencing has helped you now as well as how you see it helping you in the future either in your school work or every day life situations. The essay should by between 500 and 1500 words.

Manuscript guidelines for essays:
All essays should use the following criteria for submission. Essays not in the prescribed format will be disqualified.

• Double-spaced, typed pages in legible font (e.g. Courier, Times New Roman, Arial).  Please do not use fancy or artistic fonts such as Comic Sans Serif. Fonts should also be 12 pt type.
• Page margins must be at least 1 inch around.
• Essays must have your name, address, email and approximate word count in the upper left corner.
• Pages must be numbered.
• Each page after the first should have a header or footer with your name and page number (e.g. SMITH - 2)

If you don’t have the capability of scanning and emailing your scholarship submission, you can mail all items (all items must be submitted at the same time) to the address below. All items must be received by February 21, 2010 to be included.

Royal Art Fencing Academy
5660 Westbourne Ave,
Columbus, OH 43213