Thank you for your interest in the Never Drink and Drive Scholarship Essay Competition.
Over the years, Johnson Attorneys Group has represented countless victims of drunk driving in California and helped them obtain compensation for their many financial losses. Unfortunately, their losses often extend beyond what any monetary award provides. Indeed, the emotional toll on a victim who is injured, or the family of a loved one who has died in a collision, is significant. Most likely, they will never be the same.
More than 10,000 people are killed annually in DUI crashes throughout the United States, about a third of all traffic-related deaths. Also, 1.1 million drivers are arrested for DUI, but unfortunately about 111 million people drive drunk in the U.S. each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
We hope you, your family and friends are never involved in a collision with a DUI driver and we hope participants in this scholarship competition join our fight to put an end to drunk driving forever.
Essay Topics:
- How has drunk driving affected you, a friend or family member?
- Why should we care about drunk driving?
- How would you bring awareness to drunk driving prevention in your community?
Length:
- Scholarship essay must be under 450 words.
Who:
- California high school seniors planning to attend a college or university at any US college.
- Enrolled California college students.
Prize:
- $1,000 scholarship.
Deadline:
- The cutoff deadline to submit scholarship entries is March 11, 2024, at midnight. We no longer have a September scholarship competition.
Why?
- To raise awareness about the dangers of drunken driving among young people.
Eligibility:
- Must be a California resident or attending a California college
- The student must be enrolled in a U.S. college or university for the Fall 2024 to apply for this scholarship.
- Proof of enrollment must be presented before the scholarship is granted.
- No GPA minimum is required.
- The official rules are provided below submission form.
How to Enter:
Please fill out the following information to attach and submit your Scholarship Entry.
Johnson Attorneys Group has been a longtime supporter and advocate of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in their efforts to put an end to drunken driving.
Official Rules
Mandatory requirements:
- Must be a California resident
- Students must be enrolled in a college or university on or before Fall 2024 to be eligible for this contest.
- Submissions are due by March 11, 2024.
- Winners will be contacted by email and or telephone.
How to Enter:
- Please submit your story above.
- DO NOT submit your essay prior to Jan. 1, 2024.
- You will need to provide your name, email address, telephone number, a photograph of yourself, your major and school you are attending or planning to attend.
- Your story will be reviewed by our legal team and uploaded to our website. The URL to your story will be emailed to you.
- A representative of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) will choose the final winner from top 5 finalists.
Disclaimer:
- Only one winner will be chosen for each scholarship offered annually.
- The winner will be notified within 30 days of contest close.
- Johnson Attorneys Group employees and their family members may not enter or win the scholarship.
- Winner may need to provide proof they are enrolled in a college
- Any submissions that are not original or plagiarized will be disqualified. All entries received will be scanned through Copyscape to confirm they are original.
- If a winning submission has been plagiarized it will be disqualified and a runner-up will be chosen.
- All submissions to the Johnson Attorneys Group scholarship competition become copyright ownership of our law firm. We are entitled to use your name, photograph, school, story publicly on our websites, social media or any marketing efforts.
