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The ABPA Harrington-Arthur Memorial Scholarship Essay Competition

American Backflow Prevention Association

This scholarship essay competition was started to benefit students who are interested in gaining more knowledge and understanding of how Cross-Connection Control and Backflow Prevention help ensure safe drinking water. Backflow Prevention programs are important to ensure that the water that reaches your home, school or place of business is as safe and pure as it was when it left the water treatment plant.

Key Information

Eligibility Requirements

  • Age/Grade Level:
    The competition is open to all persons of high school age (at least age 13 and no older than age 19 as of December 31, 2016).
  • Financial Need:
    Not Required
  • Residence:
    Legal residents of the United States or Canada.
  • School:
    Applicants may currently attend a public, private, or parochial school, or be home-schooled.
  • Miscellaneous:
    Previous winners, and ABPA officers and directors, and their immediate families, are not eligible to participate. Further, the immediate relatives ofdirectors and staff of Federal Student Aid, Semester at Sea, or the National Student Leadership Conference are not eligible to participate.

Application Details

  • Judging Criteria:
    Award selection will be based on how well the essay answers the stated question, on the accuracy of the essay, its clarity and organization, creativity, the citing of sources used, grammar, and spelling.
  • Transcript:
    Required
  • Resume/Activity List:
    Required
  • Essay:
    Explain the difference between a containment cross-connection program and an isolation or primary cross-connection program. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of each. Which program offers the best protection against backflow and why.The essay shall be an original work in English. Illegible, incomplete, forged or plagiarized entries will not be accepted. The Applicant is required to include a statement in the essay that this is his/her original work, that it arises out of the Applicants own research, and that the work, assistance and ideas of any other people have been credited. The body of the essay shall be no fewer than 700 words and no greater than 1,200 words in length (excludes the title page, any footnotes, bibliography/references page, and biography page). Entries must be submitted in 12-point Times New Roman, or an equivalent font, be double-spaced, and with a one-inch margin on all sides of the page. Graphics are not permitted. An original copy of the essay must be submitted.
  • Other Materials:
    A completed Entry application form;Applicants biography;Parental Consent Form (If applicant is under age 18).

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