Celebrate the JFK Centennial by entering the 2017 Profile in Courage Contest. For this year only: the first-place prize will be doubled from $10,000 to $20,000 and cash prizes will be awarded to the top 25 students. Learn more about the special contest topic which pays tribute to the 100th anniversary of JFK’s birth.

The contest is open to United States high school students in grades nine through twelve attending public, private, parochial, or home schools; US students under the age of twenty enrolled in a high school correspondence/GED program; and US citizens attending schools overseas.

JFK Centennial Awards: First-place winner receives $20,000. Second-place winner receives$1,000. Five finalists receive $500 each. Eighteen essayists receive awards of $100.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Education/Profile-in-Courage-Essay-Contest.aspx