Statewide Supervisors of Elections Association Offering College Scholarships in 2024
The Florida Supervisors of Elections (FSE), an association composed of the state’s county elections leaders, will award $1,200 scholarships to three qualified students in 2024.
Applicants must be registered Florida voters and live in the state for at least the preceding two years. Applicants must be either a Political Science, Public Administration, Business Administration, or Journalism/Mass Communication major and be at least a junior in college. Students must be enrolled or accepted as a full-time student in a senior college or university in Florida and have at least a “C” average or above for the previous year.
The scholarship application and the complete list of scholarship guidelines, which include requirements such as letters of recommendation and financial information, can be downloaded from the link below.
Scholarship applications must be received by 5 p.m. March 8, 2024, and should be submitted in the county in which the student is registered to vote. Pinellas County students should return completed applications to [email protected] or any of the three Supervisor of Elections offices: 315 Court St., Room 117, Clearwater; 13001 Starkey Rd., Largo; or 501 1st Ave. N., St. Petersburg. Each county will select one finalist to send to the FSE Scholarship Committee for consideration.
For additional information or to receive an application by mail, contact Sasha Perez-Book at [email protected] or (727) 464-5700.
Past winners from Pinellas County
2006 – Michael Peter Maguire
Clearwater, University of Florida
2008 – Sarah Morgan
Palm Harbor, University of Central Florida
2011 – Alicia L. Gangi
St. Petersburg, University of South Florida
2013 – Chelsea Morgan
Palm Harbor, University of Florida
2015 – Mary-Kate Downing
Safety Harbor, Florida State