The TranslationServices.com Scholarship

At TranslationServices.com, we help academics, businesspeople, and authors reach an international audience by translating and localizing their work. Quite simply, we love language and think that books can change lives. But many children and adults don’t have access to books because of poverty and homelessness. That’s why for every translation order, we donate five books to a homeless shelter.

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The 2019–2020 essay topic

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Write an essay between 500 and 750 words based on the following essay prompt:

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Books allow us to step outside ourselves and see the world through another’s eyes. What book changed the way you see the world? How did this book overturn your preconceptions and inform your understanding of a place, culture, people, or something else?

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The award

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We award one $500 scholarship each year.

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Requirements

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To be eligible for the scholarship, you must…

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  • be a graduating high school senior or an undergraduate student in the United States

  • have maintained a cumulative GPA above 3.0 over the previous school year

  • provide permission to publish your essay on the TranslationServices.com blog

  • apply by noon (US Eastern time) on July 1, 2020