Dear Applicants and Participants,
We have had to make a very difficult decision about this year’s project due to economic issues.
In order to ensure that we can provide for our current winners and that we can continue the project long term, we are postponing this year’s project until next year – 2009-2010 or later.
We are announcing this news via this communication, today December 12th 2008. This announcement is prior to the December 17th deadline, before any winners are selected or before any new commitments are made by Fullrideproject that we might potentially not be able to fulfill.
Southwest Honda and the sponsors you see on our website will all remain supportive of our current winners and promises. We simply cannot currently increase our commitments without the appropriate funding.
To be clear, we are not canceling the project. We are temporarily postponing it order to regain some lost support for the 2008-2009 project.
To those seniors who have submitted applications we apologize for any inconvenience caused by filling out the online application and wish you the best as you pursue other scholarship options.
On behalf of all of us involved with the project we regret having to postpone this year, but we look forward to regaining the needed funding and hopefully re-launching in 2009 or 2010.
We've extended the application deadline from November 1st to Wednesday, December 17th. You'll see our ads and promotional efforts change to reflect this new date as well.
Forward an email or link to this site to anyone you know who might be a possibility.
Also, we now have the donate online function available. While we do have corporate sponsors we still have many ongoing and increasing costs. Your tax-deductible investment can be transacted securely http://www.expioleadership.com/donationshere if you or your organization are able. For major sponsorships ($5-20K annually) please email andy(at)expioleadership.com to discuss the marketing benefits and details.
Applications for this year's project are due by NOVEMBER 1, 2008 in order to qualify for the 2009 project selection process. The top ten winners will be announced February 7th with voting for the top three beginning on February 16th. The top three winners will be announced on March 7th with voting for the winner to start on March 23rd. The winner will be announced at an event held at Hillside Christian Church on May 9th.We wish you the best!
Please join us as we announce our final winner on Saturday May 24th at Westgate Mall Center-Court at 2pm!
The two runners up will win $1000/ year for four years to WTAMU and the winner will receive a new Honda Civic and a full scholarship to WTAMU. We will also post the results online after the event.
If you have any questions about fullrideproject â„¢ please see our FAQ's or News Updates. Also, please feel free to contact us with any thoughts or feedback you have for the students or project. Thank you!
Abbee Jefferies
Carissa Miranda
Dennis Underwood
The other seven students all received new HP laptops while the top three will continue to the final round!
Voting for the final winner will begin on Monday May 12th at midnight and will then run for only one week until 11:59pm on Monday May 19th. The final winner will be announced on Saturday May 24th – one week before graduation - at Westgate Mall Center-Court at 2pm!
Over 13,000 of you were registered voters casting over 140,000 votes - an average of ten votes per person either by text or online. The website has had almost 100,000 visits to date, with 419,000 pageviews.
Thousands of people, including online visitors and voters from every state in the U.S. and beyond, have benefited from the stories of these awesome students. They are great role models for all of us and they have paved the way for us to find more like them every year, and help them achieve their dreams. We will have the students stories and videos back up soon. Also, we'll have a new home page ready for the final round of voting that will include new and more in depth candidate profile videos for the top three.If you have any questions about fullrideproject â„¢ please see our FAQ's. Thank you
Southwest Honda and the Full Ride team are proud to announce that we were honored to win a gold addy award for 2007 for the first Full Ride Project Ad. The ad first aired on TV on December 17, 2007 and will run until the next add airs starting the second week of March.
Southwest Honda was the client and is the primary sponsor of the Full Ride Project.
Patrick Kemp with ThreeLeaf Creative, Joseph Schlabs of Joseph Elliot Photography, and Andy Roller of Expio Leadership Consulting created, directed, and produced the ad.
Thank you to all the partners, sponsors, and participants of this project for your continued and overwhelming support of this project.
It's on...
Over the next few weeks our Candidate Selection Team will be reviewing and verifying applications. As the project leader, I've already read through all the applications and we have some tough decisions ahead.
Once we select the ten candidates, then we will publish their profiles here on the website for YOU to vote. Voting details will be available then. Be looking for our new ads and web updates around the second week of March. Until then, check back here for blog updates.
The official deadline has passed. We want to thank you for your support. The selection team will be spending the next few weeks reviewing all of the applications. We will be selecting 10 finalists, so be sure and check back in a few weeks to vote for your favorite candidate. In the mean, time we would love to get any feedback you have on the project so far. Click here to send us your comments. THANK YOU and BEST WISHES!
We are so excited about the positive response that we have received from this campaign. We have had over 5,000 visits to the website, and we have already received numerous applications. If you haven't applied yet, be sure and do so by January 31st.
1. Fill out the online application form.
2. Have your 3 references submitted.
3. Apply to West Texas A&M University: Admissions as well as Scholarships.
It's that simple!