Thank you to everyone who applied to The Desire To Inspire Scholarship!

We received a lot of incredible applications for the scholarship and learned not only all the great things that the applicants are doing at their respective schools and in their communities across the nation, but also what inspiration meant to these amazing students and how they are actively inspiring others around them on a regular basis. While we wish we could give many of our applicants some scholarship money, the scholarship can ultimately only go to one person!

Out of the almost 200 applicants who applied for the scholarship, the five applicants with the highest averaged scores were selected to advance to the voting round, where their application answers will be read and voted upon by the public. As stated on the main page of The Desire To Inspire Scholarship, the outcome of this voting competition will constitute 10% of the applicant's overall score, with the judges’ scores constituting 90% of the overall score. The purpose of this competition is to not only give the public the chance to actively participate in a scholarship process that was funded by them, but also to provide these incredible students a way to share with the world what they are doing to inspire others around them!

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Below, you will find the finalists of the inaugural Desire To Inspire Scholarship!

To read their application answers, just click on their pictures! Once you decide who you want to vote for, just click the button next to their name on the poll! You only get one vote and you can't change it once you cast it, so be sure to choose wisely!

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Good luck to all of the finalists! And to all of the other scholarship applicants, keep up the fantastic work! You are all doing awesome things at such a young age and have such bright futures ahead of you! The world needs more people like you! Best of luck to you on all of your future endeavors!

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