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Scholarship guidelines

The following rules and guidelines were developed and adopted with the main intent being of maximizing our chances of achieving our overall objective, which is grow Worth County.

  1. Graduating students must apply for the scholarship and have the application into the WCDA office by April 15th at 4 pm their senior year.
  2. Only those students who live with their biological, adoptive, and foster parent(s) within the geographic borders of Worth County for the entirety of their junior and senior years of high school shall be eligible to receive a scholarship. Any cases of legal guardianship will be reviewed on a case by case basis. Any and all legal documentation of legal guardianship and/or joint legal custody, adoption, and foster care situations must be accompanied with the scholarship application. All paperwork will be reviewed carefully and abuse of the program will result in denial of a scholarship.
  3. This will be a one time scholarship paid directly to the college, trade school or institution of higher learning. If the student does not complete their education, the remaining balance of the scholarship will be returned to the WCDA Scholarship Fund.
  4. Students will be allowed a maximum of 4 years to use the scholarship, if not used the balance will be returned to the WCDA Scholarship Fund.
  5. The amount of scholarships will be contingent upon the amount of the adjusted gross revenue of the casino from January 1 to December 31 and the number of qualifying graduating students who reside in Worth county.
  6. The May 2007 graduating class was the first graduating class to receive the scholarship.
  7. Students who attend schools outside Worth county, but satisfy requirement (2) are eligible for the scholarship.
  8. Students who attend schools inside of Worth county, but do NOT satisfy requirement (2) are NOT eligible for the scholarship.
  9. The above rules and guidelines are subject to change and revision of the WCDA board as deemed appropriate in once again trying to achieve our overall goal of Grow Worth County .

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