Thank you for submitting your application to the CHECH Senior Scholarship.
Your application is not complete until essay submitted.
Email essay in PDF format to [email protected]
DEADLINE: March 31, 2026
Provide a cover sheet with full name, address, email address, essay title, and student's plans following high school. Student's name or other identifying information should not appear on any pages of the essay.
Winners will be announced by May 15, 2026, publicized and quoted on social media, with publication of photograph and essay in our annual Showcase Magazine and on our membership scholarship page.
2026 Scholarship Topic
The "Great Conversation" relates to thinkers of today 'talking' with the thinkers of the past, building on the rich inheritance, and continuing the creation of tradition and culture. Write a 500-650 word essay on the meaning of conversation for your home education journey. How has the conversation guided you to overcome, learn, and grow in virtue throughout your home education journey?
Scholarship Rules
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1. Eligibility: Applicant must be a homeschooled student in their senior year of high school in the 2025-2026 school year. Applicant must be entering into college or a vocational school in the 2026-2027 school year. Applicant must be a current member in good standing or the child of a current member in good standing of CHECH as of the application submission deadline.
2. Process for Supervising Essays: Essay submissions will be reviewed by the Board in order to make sure they are anonymous. Applicant/essay will then be assigned a number so that the essay can be tracked and reviewed without knowledge of the identity of the applicant. A panel of three judges will be selected from the homeschooling community by the Board, but shall not include members of the Board nor family members of applicants. Judges will have no access to the key identifying the applicants to their essays.
3. Selection Process: Judges will be given a grading rubric to score each anonymous essay, included below. The winner will be the two essays with the highest score. Ties will be resubmitted to the panel of judges for rescoring.
4. Process for handling jeopardized scholarships: If an essay identifies its applicant, the Board will make reasonable efforts to notify the applicant to correct and resubmit their essay before the deadline. Extensions will not be allowed. If a judge reports an unforeseen conflict of interest in relation to an essay, that judge’s score will not be counted, and a weighted score of the two remaining judges will be used instead.
5. Record Collection and Retention: CHECH will retain all records collected for the scholarship for five years.
