Scholarship Applications Now Available

This year, the Rotary Club of Lake Hickory will be awarding approximately $35,000 in Scholarships to seniors graduating from any of the eight public high schools in Catawba County.  This continues the club’s twenty-seven year old tradition of helping local students with financial assistance to attend college.

The Rotary Club of Lake Hickory, with over 100 members and the support of numerous community businesses and individual sponsors, raises scholarship funds each Spring by hosting the Galaxy Shootout Soccer Tournament, a youth event that has become one of North Carolina's largest youth soccer tournaments.  This year the Club will award approximately $35,000 to graduating seniors who will attend a four-year college program in the fall of 2012.

Since the Scholarship program was established in 1983, the Rotary Club of Lake Hickory has distributed over $475,000 in scholarships to approximately 163 local high school students who demonstrate financial need and exemplify “service above self” – which is the motto of Rotary International.

Graduating high school seniors interested in qualification information and submitting a scholarship application should inquire with their high school guidance counselors.  Information and applications are also available on this web site at this address.

All applications and accompanying information and documentation must be completed and postmarked on or before March 9, 2012.