In recognition of the tremendous efforts put forth by Oklahoma’s rural schools to provide their students with quality education in an ever-changing environment, it is with pleasure that the Organization of Rural Oklahoma Schools (OROS) announces the implementation of an annual scholarship.

Scholarship Rules and Regulations:

1. To qualify, participating schools must be current paid members of OROS.
2. The scholarship will be awarded annually to one graduating high school senior from each quadrant (as classified by OROS) in the state of Oklahoma. There will be no discrimination made as to this scholarship based on race, color, religion, national origin or sex, either by OROS or participating member schools.
3. Each recipient will receive a one-time cash scholarship of $500.00, to be used by the student to help defray the costs of post-secondary education and related expenses.
4. Each school is responsible for distributing to its students information pertaining to the scholarship application, rules and deadlines.
5. Each school must screen and evaluate its own applicants, based upon criteria set forth on the OROS Scholarship Application Form, and then choose a single semi-finalist to be forwarded to OROS for consideration.
6. Each school may submit only one entry for consideration.
7. Entries from each school must be postmarked no later than March 1 of each year in order to be considered. Students must submit their scholarship applications to the NW Tech Campus Counselor by February 15^th!!
8. OROS will appoint a scholarship committee consisting of members of its board of directors to determine the winners of the scholarship and one alternate for each quadrant.
9. If a student from an OROS board member’s school district is a semi-finalist for the scholarship, that board member will be excluded from any and all aspects of the judging process.
10. The superintendents of the school districts attended by each of the quadrant winners will be notified in writing of the award being made to their students.
11. The scholarship will be awarded on or before the graduation date of each quadrant winner. The scholarship monies will be distributed upon proof of enrollment in a post-secondary institution.
12. Whenever possible, a representative from OROS will attend the school awards ceremony to award the scholarship to each quadrant winner.
13. Area Technology schools may submit one applicant per paid membership.
14. All applications and essays shall be typewritten. If applications and essays are not typewritten they will be disqualified.

All applications and essays must be in electronic format  or typewritten, no handwritten response will be accepted.  If applications and essays are not in an electronic format or typed they will be disqualified.

The OROS Scholarship form is available in MS Word format. Click here to download the application.

The “Quadrant” is Northwest.

The “School District” is Northwest Technology Center District (V-10).

Scholarship applications must be submitted to Mrs. Koehn by 4:00 pm on February 15, 2019!