DaytonDailyNewsCommunitySolutionsScholarship

This scholarship was established in 2005 in honor of Mike Peters in the spirit of civic engagement. Mr. Peters is a political and comic strip cartoonist. He began his career working at the Dayton Daily News in 1969. In 1981 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning. His political cartoons appear in papers across the country, and he also writes the award-winning Mother Goose and Grimm comic strip. Applicants must: * Be a graduating senior from a high school in the Miami Valley Eligible counties: Montgomery, Greene, Miami and Warren * Demonstrate the ability to succeed academically * Be accepted to attend a two- or four-year accredited college or university * Demonstrate how you have worked to solve a community problem/need and be able to explain the impact and/or future plans for solving the problem.