July 22, 2019
NSSF Congratulates 2019’s Patron Member Scholarship Winners
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation®(NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, is pleased to announce that it has chosen the winners of its 2019 Patron Member Scholarship Contest (formerly Voting Member Scholarship Contest). The annual competition is open to Patron company members, their employees and family members, with a total of $60,000 in college costs awards divided among 25 winners. This year’s contest drew entries from more than 75 rising and current college and university students.
Students had a choice of three trending topics on which to provide an essay:
- If you could identify and use one method for generating new interest in the shooting sports or hunting among the general public, what would it be?
- What makes a good mentor and why are mentors important for a good introduction to shooting, hunting and firearms safety?
- Concerning maintaining Second Amendment rights, why is it important to vote in non-presidential elections?
This year’s Grand Prize winner and recipient of $8,000 is Sean Anthony, whose father, Richard, works for Winchester, LLC – Olin Corp. The younger Mr. Anthony, who is a senior attending the University of Akron, selected the topic on mentoring, writing, in part:
“If you were to ask twelve different people the simple question, “What makes a good mentor?”, odds are, you would receive a dozen different answers. On the surface, the reason for this seems simple; the idea of a mentor figure has been around for millennia, and as such, it has taken on many different, nuanced meanings for a diverse range of people. That being said, there are many common threads in these varied
