August 23, 2011
Free Money - A Scholarship Awaits. Promotion expires late 2011.
By Jake Chapman, Showcase U Co-founder
Dollars
for Scholars Chapters:
Here's a
fantastic opportunity to pass along to your students as the school
year starts!
Dr
Pepper Million Dollar Tuition Giveaway Promotion and Contest
Dr Pepper is sponsoring a nationwide promotion this 2011 college
football season in which they are giving away $1,000,000 in tuition
assistance. Scholarship America's Scholarship Management Services is
partnering with Dr Pepper to help distribute the tuition assistance
payments. To enter the promotion, entrants must have access to the
internet and the capability to upload a short video.
The promotion is open to anyone over the age of 18. Entrants submit a
one-minute video explaining how they would make an impact in their
life, their community, or the world if they won free tuition from Dr
Pepper. Throughout the football season over 60 students will be
awarded $2,500 in tuition assistance from Dr Pepper.
Dr Pepper will
also select an additional 25 grand prize winners who will be invited
to attend with one guest one of five end-of-season football games to
compete in a contest at halftime. Selection of these grand prize
winners will be limited to students under the age of 25. The students
will be given a chance to throw for $100,000 in tuition during the
halftime of the game. The winner will walk away with $100,000
in tuition and the runner-up will receive $23,000.
The five games involved are the SEC, ACC, Big 10 and Pac 12
Championship games to be held on December 3, and the Cotton Bowl in
Dallas, Texas on January 6, 2012.
Deadline for entering videos for the $2,500 prizes is December 31,
2011
Deadline for entering videos for the $100,000 prizes is November 1,
2011 for all but the Cotton Bowl
Deadline for entering videos for the $100,000 prize at the Cotton
Bowl is December 15, 2011.
Full details and rules can be found at drpepper.com. (Click on the Promotions icon.)
Good luck to your students!