Montgomery, Ala. – Two Alabama public high school seniors will be eligible to receive the Southeastern States Pupil Transportation Conference Buster Bynum Scholarship. Scholarship recipients will be able to apply the award toward college costs for the 2010-11 school year.
Created in 2005, the Buster Bynum Scholarship is a one-time $1,000 education scholarship awarded to two deserving public school students (each receiving $1,000) in each of the 14 member states of the Southeastern States Pupil Transportation Conference (SESPTC). Scholarships are awarded to children of school bus transportation employees actively employed in public school transportation for the past five years, with a total family income of less than $75,000. Eligible students must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA and are selected based on their leadership, citizenship and service.
Each school system selects a local winner and submits the winning application to the State SESPTC Selection Committee no later than April 30, 2010. The two finalists will be notified no later than May 30, 2010.
The scholarship is named for the current treasurer, past president and longtime member of the SESPTC Board of Directors, who has been a strong advocate for improving student transportation safety for more than 42 years. Prior to his retirement, Bynum served as the Virginia State Director of Pupil Transportation and also held other positions in the field of school transportation. Scholarship sponsors are the Alabama Department of Education Pupil Transportation Section and the SESPTC.
For more scholarship information and local application deadlines, contact your school system’s transportation supervisor or school counselor.
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