A significant endeavor is the outcome of identifying a need and taking the lead to create a meaningful solution that impacted (or continues to impact) your community, society, or school.

A significant endeavor is the outcome of identifying a need and taking the lead to create a meaningful solution that impacted (or continues to impact) your community, society, or school. When reading a scholarship application, judges often ask what the need or problem was – why did the student undertake a specific project or endeavor? The endeavor could involve an intellectual challenge, research problem, ethical dilemma, barrier, or something that impacted the student personally. It may be rooted in community/service learning, research, the arts, journalism, advocacy, public affairs, etc. Judges do consider originality, initiative, degree of difficulty, results, and any benefit to society as a whole. Describe your most significant endeavor since attending college in which you applied your academic or intellectual skills learned during your college experience to benefit your school, community or society. Using the four text boxes below, describe one significant endeavor that you undertook: * Describe how you identified the need. How did you approach this creatively? Was this part of a group effort? If so, what individual role did you play?