Hitachi Foundation Opens Youth Community Service Awards

Deadline: April 1, 2006

"The Hitachi Foundation presents the Yoshiyama Award for Exemplary Service to the Community each year to ten high school seniors from around the United States on the basis of their community-service activities.

The award is accompanied by a gift of $5,000, dispensed over two years. Recipients may use the award at their discretion. (The award is not a scholarship.)

Yoshiyama Award selection is based upon service and the opportunity for longer-term social change rather than on academic achievement or extracurricular activities. Grade-point averages, SAT scores, and school club memberships are not considered in the selection process.

To be eligible for the award, candidates must be graduating high school seniors in the U.S. or U.S. territories (nominees need not be college bound); individuals whose activities impacted a socially, economically, or culturally isolated area; nominated by someone familiar with their service...

Students must be nominated for the award. Self-nominations and nominations from family members are automatically disqualified."