Bill Moon Scholarship Sponsored by The NATSO Foundation, USA

The scholarship is now available to all truckstop and travel plaza owner/operators, their employees and their families. The Bill Moon Scholarship is available for high school seniors and college students, and will be awarding five $5,000 scholarships.

Description
For nearly 20 years the Bill Moon Scholarship Program has been changing lives. The scholarship provides much needed and deserved assistance to industry students planning for their post-secondary education and has awarded over $250,000 in scholarships. Each year since 1993 The NATSO Foundation has awarded scholarships of $2,500 each to selected industry employees and their children to help offset the cost of a college education. In 2013, the NATSO Foundation Board of Directors elected to raise the amount of the scholarship to $5,000.

The origins of the Bill Moon Scholarship Program can be traced to 1989, when the Mason-Dixon Truck Stop Operators Association made a $5,000 contribution for use in establishing an industry scholarship program. In 1993, the Northeast Truckstop Operators Association made a $5000 contribution and Carolyn Moon added an additional $10,000. The NATSO Foundation began awarding scholarships to industry employees and their families in 1993.

Bill Moon made substantial contributions to NATSO, actively supporting and participating in industry-related government affairs issues, serving as Chairman of NATSO in 1989, and becoming the first Chairman of The NATSO Foundation in 1990.

Education was always a Moon family priority. Bill and his wife, Carolyn, both graduated from Southwest Missouri State University, and all three of their children received degrees from The University of Iowa.

Eligibility
This program is open to high school seniors and college students

Application Procedure
A PDF version of the application can be found online. Please go to the website link below to find the application link.  Part of the application involves responding to the following essay prompt:

    Describe an obstacle that you have faced in your life and how you believe your experience in either rising to meet, or failing to overcome the challenge, has shaped who you are today. Please describe your thoughts in an essay of no less than 500 and no more than 1000 words.

Submission Deadline
May 1, 2013

Website Link
http://www.natso.com/natsofoundation/billmoonscholarship