The application guidelines are as follows:

• Your published piece of content must be received by September 25, 2019.

• Applications should be emailed to scholarships@surex.com in word format, no link to Google Docs or PDFs.

• Applicants should include their name, address and phone number.

• Applicants should include a link to their Facebook profile so that we may confirm their identity and school enrollment.

• The applicant should state where they are currently attending or planning to attend school in the body of their submission email.

• No additional information should be included.

We look forward to reading your submissions and helping the winner meet his or her educations costs.

The student must be:

• A Canadian citizen (excluding Quebec residents), permanent resident or other legal standing that allows them to work and study in Canada;

• Accepted into a U.S. or Canada college or university; and

• Enrolled in a U.S. or Canadian undergraduate program, or entering school for the first time during fall 2019 semester.

• Student must provide proof of enrollment for their program

Criteria for evaluation:

Please write a 500-2000 word essay on the important topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI).  Be sure to explore how you think this technology could improve a business or business function in 2020.

Our scholarship committee will review the essays after the submission date. The winning article will express creativity, well-expressed thoughts, will be clear and concisely written, and will avoid grammatical/spelling errors. 

Out of the pool of applicants, we will choose three finalists. We will then post the three finalists’ essays on our blog and our social media pages.

All entries will be judged by our content marketing head. The winner of the scholarship will be notified via email on October 1, 2019.

For more information, please visit: https://www.surex.com/scholarship