Dayton Daily News Community Solutions Scholarship

This scholarship was established in 2005 in honor of Mike Peters in the spirit of civic engagement. Mr. Peters is a political and comic strip cartoonist. He began his career working for the Dayton Daily News in 1969. In 1981, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning. His political cartoons appear in papers across the country, and he also writes the award-winning Mother Goose and Grimm comic strip.

Applicants must:

• be a graduating senior from a high school in the Miami Valley (Montgomery, Greene, Miami or Warren counties),
• demonstrate the ability to succeed academically,
• be accepted to attend a two- or four-year accredited college or university, and
• demonstrate how he or she have worked to solve a community problem/need and be able to explain the impact and/or future plans for solving the problem.

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