Bill of Rights Essay Contest
Pasco County Property Appraiser Mike Wells is sponsoring an essay contest to commemorate the Bill of Rights adopted on March 1, 1792.
All Pasco County ninth-graders are eligible to participate, whether they attend public school, private school or are homeschoolers.
The deadline for submitting essays is March 31.
For details, visit Appraiser.PascoGov.com and click on “9th Grade Essay Contest.”
Or, you may contact Jim Hollingsworth by telephone at (727) 847-8013 or email at .
Tampa Christian accepting registrations
Open registration for Tampa Christian Community School, at First United Methodist Church of Lutz, 960 W. Lutz Lake Fern Road, runs until March 30.
There are limited spaces available.
For information, visit TampaCCS.org.
PHSC campus open houses
Pasco-Hernando State College will host open houses at each of its five campuses in April.
Guests can take campus tours and get information on admissions, financial aid, scholarships and more than 50 clubs and organizations.
Upcoming dates are:
- April 1 from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at North Campus in Brooksville, 11415 Ponce de Leon Blvd.
- April 2 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at East Campus in Dade City, 36727 Blanton Road
- April 8 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Spring Hill Campus, 450 Beverly Court
- April 28 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., at Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, 2727 Mansfield Blvd., in Wesley Chapel
- April 28 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at West Campus in New Port Richey, 10230 Ridge Road
For information and to RSVP, visit PHSC.edu/rsvp.
Woman’s club scholarship opportunities
The GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club is accepting applications for its 2015 scholarships. In addition to the club scholarships, a limited number of the Lutz Volunteer Firemen’s scholarships are available and administered through the club.
Applicants for the club’s scholarships must live in Lutz or Land O’ Lakes.
Applicants for the firemen’s scholarships must be residents of Lutz.
The applications are available at Lutz and Land O’ Lakes high schools, Erwin Technical Center, Pasco-Hernando Community College and Hillsborough Community College.
For those students who do not attend these schools, but live in Lutz or Land O’ Lakes, applications can be requested by emailing Barbara Nicholson at .
Completed applications must be received by April 15.
Scholarship recipients will be notified by June, and funds will be sent to the college or school of choice in September.
Sean Bartell Memorial Scholarship
Applications are being accepted for the Sean Bartell Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a Wesley Chapel High School senior.
The student must complete an online or paper application by April 28.
The scholarship is in memory of Sean Bartell, a Wesley Chapel High School junior who passed away from a rare skin disease in December 2014.
Tax-deductible donations to the scholarship fund can be mailed to Atonement Lutheran Church, c/o Sean Bartell Scholarship, 29617 State Road 54, Wesley Chapel FL 33545.
For information, contact Paul Bartell at (813) 416-923 or .
Corbett Prep offers Little Free Library
The Fifth-Grade Leadership Council at Corbett Preparatory School of IDS installed its first Little Free Library box on the East side of the campus.
People are encouraged to recycle their old books by bringing books and leaving them on the shelves for someone else.
Anyone can stop by the Little Free Library to browse the collection and take a book.
All books are free.
The school is located at 12015 Orange Grove Drive in Tampa.
Host an international student
Education First Educational Homestay Programs is looking for families in the community to host high school students, ages 14 to 18, from France, Italy and Spain from July 9 to Aug. 3.
Host families can earn 60 community service hours.
For more details and information, contact Courtney Garth, Central Florida program leader for EF Educational Homestay Programs, at (813) 494-7992 or .
For information about the EF program, visit EF.com/ehp.
