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2010 NSTRA Scholarship Award

This year’s scholarship award program under the supervision of Vice President Frank Llano was again  huge success!  Due to Frank’s continuing emphasis to persuade our membership to get young people to apply, we received 8 applications for this award.  Six anonymous readers, from various regions, were selected to read and score each application according to criteria developed to reward the student on their written essay, academic performance, extra-curricular activities, and completion of the application.  All identifiers were removed from the application so that the readers could not recognize the applicants.

The scholarship auction during the Dog of the Year trial raised $2,582.00.  Our continued success with this program is due to the donations from regions and individuals and the generosity of our members.   A big thank you goes to the Virginia Region for their donation of $1,300!

This year’s scoring was very close, with only 8 points (out of a possible 600)  separating the top three applicants. The decision was made to present a scholarship award to each of the top 3 scoring applicants for a total of $4500 in awards.  The recipients were Meagan Olesen – Mid West Region; Jessica Bennett – Utah Region; and Amber Cartwright – Big Sky Region.

Our congratulations go out to these outstanding NSTRA students!

Voting Rights for Associate Members: A question has come up as to whether associate members can vote in regional elections. To clarify any confusion, the answer to said question is no. When the associate membership was established, it was done in order to allow families to be able to participate at a lesser rate. To that means, to have voting privileges at the National or Regional level, one must be a full member.

Note: A dog is not required to be registered in the NSTRA registry to compete in a NSTRA sanctioned trial. The requirement remains that a dog must be registered or eligible to be registered in the NSTRA, AKC, FDSB, and CKC registries.

Score sheets: The large score sheets used at trials ARE NOW included in your trial packet at no additional charge.  Please let us know when ordering your packet if you do NOT need them,  otherwise they will be included.

Advertising Rates:

Full Page $250.00 (7 1/2 x 10)
Half Page $150.00 (7 1/8 x 5)
Qtr. Page $ 75.00 (3/1/2 x 4 3/4)
Classified $ 15.00 (20-25 words/no pictures)

NSTRA Magazine Deadlines:

Feb./Mar. issue Jan. 1st
April/May issue Mar. 1st
June/July issue May 1st
Aug./Sept. issue July 1st
Oct./Nov. issue Sept. 1st
Dec./Jan. issue Nov. 1st