To apply for the 2009 SAGE Making a Difference award, you must be a high school senior graduating by May 2009. (It's OK if you are a superstar who graduated a little early.)
   Your complete application package must be received by March 31. Use the following checklist so that you make sure you have everything. Incomplete applications will be disqualified.
    - This application form
    - A 500-word essay about who you are, how you are making a difference and why it's important to you.
    - A 300-word letter from someone nominating you for the award. Click here for that page.
   Remember, someone must nominate you - a teacher, adviser, priest or pastor, employer or volunteer activities coordinator.
   If your nominator prefers to mail the letter of recommendation, he or she must mail it to:
2009 SAGE Making a Difference Contest, P.O. Drawer J, Albuquerque, NM 87103
   For questions about submitting your application, call SAGE Editor Carolyn Flynn at 823-3870.
   All applicants will be informed of the winners via mail. Please do not call.
Nominee information:
* Name
* Address
* City *State * ZIP
* Home phone * Work/school phone Cell phone
* High School graduating from Grade point average
Please list all extracurricular school and community organizations you participate in
What college to you plan to attend?
What course of study do you plan to pursue?
What field do you want to be in and why?
   Please write an essay (about 500 words) about who you are.
   In it, describe some of the projects you have been involved with that have been most meaningful to you.
   What did you believe you accomplished? How did you know you had made a difference? What motivated you to take it on?
   Did you have to make sacrifices, go the extra mile? Did you find it was harder than you expected -- or did you find just the opposite, that one motivated person can rally many others to help? How did the experience change you? What did you learn about others? About yourself?
   Who inspires you? Who believes in you? What have you learned from them?
   What kind of person do you see yourself being as a young adult?

Who nominated you?:
* Name

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