Participate in Korean Night event at IU
BLOOMINGTON — Brown County PTO Council and East Asian Studies of the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University are jointly inviting the Brown County Middle and High School students to participate in 2023 Korean Night event next month.
The event will be Sunday, April 2 from noon to 6 p.m. at Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. 7th St., in Bloomington.
The school bus is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, and students are welcome to join. The bus leaves Sunday at 1:30 p.m. from the middle school parking lot and will return by 8:30 p.m.
Signed permission slips should be returned by Wednesday, March 29 to the school office.
Families are welcome to travel to the event in a separate transportation. There will be many interactive cultural programs and exciting performances by professional artists and IU students. Korean food will be served.
This event is free to local community and to all ages. Contact Clara Stanley at 312-310-3617 or [email protected] for more information.
Students welcome to enter essay contest
The League of Women Voters of Brown County are once again sponsoring an essay contest for local middle and high school students from public, private, or home-schooled classes.
Essay entries must be received by midnight Thursday, March 30, 2023. To highlight the issue of voting in our democracy, and to foster an exercise in developing, defending, and explaining a viewpoint, League members have worked with teachers to select the following topic prompts.
For grades 6-8 the prompt is:
“George Washington was right—political parties are bad for representative government.” Agree or disagree?
For grades 9-12 the prompt is:
“Voting should be made mandatory, like jury duty, so that every eligible person participates.” Agree or disagree?
The essays will be judged anonymously by retired teachers, with cash prizes awarded in each grade category; $250 first place, $150 second place, and $75 third place. To get full information and an entry packet, go to www.lwvbrowncounty.org home page and scroll down to “LWVBC Announces Third Annual Essay Contest.”
To honor its recently deceased charter member, the contest is titled “The Janet Kramer Essay Contest.”
Scholarships open to local students
The Indiana Sheriffs’ Association is once again awarding college scholarships to qualified high school seniors or college students who are pursuing a degree in criminal justice studies.
There will be approximately 40, $750 scholarships awarded to qualifying students throughout the state.
The Indiana Sheriffs’ Association Scholarship Fund was established for the purpose of receiving, investing and dispensing funds to provide college scholarships to qualified students who are committed to pursuing an education and career in the law enforcement field.
To qualify for one of these scholarships, the applicant must be an Indiana resident, be a current member of the association or a dependent child or grandchild of a current member of the association, attend an Indiana college or university, major in a law enforcement field and enroll as a full-time student (12 hours).
Applications needed to apply for the scholarships are available from your high school counselor or the sheriff’s office, 55 State Road 46 East. The scholarship application can also be downloaded from the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association website at indianasheriffs.org.
The applications must be completed and received by the Indiana Sheriffs’ Association on or before April 1.
Classes, resources available at CRC
The Career Resource Center, 260 Schoolhouse Lane, is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays. The CRC is closed on the weekends.
Looking for a job? Work ONE is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday thru Thursday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays.
Call 812-988-5880 for more information.
