Georgia Future Champions Scholarship

Scholarship Sponsored by The Champion Firm

At The Champion Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.C., our attorneys devote their lives to helping people throughout Atlanta and all across Georgia when they are wrongfully injured. However, we know help comes in many different forms. From teachers to coaches, parents to grandparents, many people along the way influenced our own education, careers, and aspirations. This scholarship is one of our ways of paying it forward to help Atlanta students achieve their dreams.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

We know that it is not easy to become a champion in your chosen field. It takes hours of practice, patience, and persistence. This scholarship is intended to help students with high character and a commitment to community service and servant leadership.

How do you embody those values? What steps are you going to take to become the best at what you do? How are you going to make yourself a champion?

The Future Champions scholarship is open to any high school seniors or college students who are residents of the Atlanta Metro area and will be attending a two or four-year college, university, graduate school, or law school in the United States.

SCHOLARSHIP DETAILS:

This $5,000 one-time scholarship award will be sent directly to the registrar’s office of the winner’s college or university and can be used to cover the cost of tuition, fees, housing, and/or books up to the Cost of Attendance. This scholarship is not renewable.

The deadline for all scholarship applications is the end of the day, Saturday, May 31st, 2025.

We will accept any scholarship applications submitted before midnight on this date.

To apply, submit the form below with a 500-1000 word essay and create a short (30-60 second) video telling us about how you plan to become a champion at whatever you do or plan to do, how this scholarship can help you reach those goals, and someone who has supported you along the way.

You will also need to submit one letter of recommendation from an employer or teacher/guidance counselor endorsing you for the scholarship award. Your letter of recommendation must be emailed to the address below from that person directly.

The winning applicant will also be required to submit an official transcript after being notified of winning the scholarship award.

Video files or links can be sent to marketing@thechampionfirm.com. Please note that submitting your video using a free Dropbox or Google Drive account is the easiest for our team, but we will not exclude applicants who choose to use a different method.

RULES & REGULATIONS:

1. Eligibility: The Future Champions scholarship contest is open to any high school seniors or college students who are residents of Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Paulding or Rockdale Counties in Georgia, and will be attending a two or four-year college, university, graduate school, or law school in the United States (“Qualifying Institution”). Students must be legal residents of the United States residing in one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia. Employees of the Champion Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.C. their immediate families (parent, child, sibling, and spouse), and persons living in the same households of such individuals (whether related or not), are not eligible to participate in the Scholarship Contest.

2. How to Enter: Create a short video and then write a supporting essay (details on these below). Go to the application below during the Entry Period, where you will be asked to do the following:

• Fill out the digital form below with your name, address, date of birth, and educational background (graduation year; high school attended).
• Provide a link to your video.
• Paste in your supporting essay.
• Confirm you understand that a Letter of Recommendation is needed.
• Please Note: Entries will not be returned and may be shared on the Firm’s social media pages.

3. Content of Entries:

• Video  Create a short video 30-60-second video telling us about someone who has influenced your education, career, or goals. Also describe what your dreams and goals are, and how this scholarship will help you achieve your goals. The video can be serious, funny, inspiring – whatever you want! Creativity is encouraged. The video must be 30-60 seconds in length. You don’t need to be a professional videographer. Film it with your phone!
• Essay  Your essay should expand on the content of your video, and must be 500-1000 words. This includes an explanation of your goals for the future and how this scholarship will help you achieve those goals.
• Additional Requirements for Video and Essay  Both the video and the essay must be your original work and not previously published. Submissions that (in the sole discretion of The Champion Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.C.) include any material that is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit, disparaging of any racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual orientation, or any other minority group, infringing, in violation of any third party rights or any other law, illegible, or late, will be disqualified.
• Letter of Recommendation  Your letter of recommendation should come from an employer, teacher or career/guidance counselor who knows you well and can speak to why you deserve to receive this scholarship. They must email their letter of recommendation to marketing@thechampionfirm.com directly before the application deadline.

4. Selection and Notification of Winner: All qualified submissions will be reviewed by The Champion Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.C. team without regard to race, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited basis. Scholarship Winner will be will be notified by email, using the contact information provided in the application.

5. Award: The scholarship winner will be awarded a $5,000 scholarship, payable by check directly to the Qualifying Institution identified in the application as the school where the Scholarship Winner will be enrolled. If the Scholarship Winner decides to attend a Qualifying Institution other than the one so identified, he or she must notify The Champion Firm, Personal Injury Attorneys, P.C. no later than two months after winner’s notification so that the award may be sent to the correct entity. Except where prohibited by law, before the award can be sent to the Qualifying Institution, the Scholarship Winner will be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Compliance with Official Rules, a Publicity Release, and a Release of Liability. If any potential Scholarship Winner does not meet these requirements within fourteen (14) days of notification, an alternate Scholarship Winner will be named.