Company Awards $12,000 in Scholarships to Promote Awareness of Driver Safety Among Teenagers
Civil Service Employees Insurance Group (CSE Insurance), a leader in providing public employees with quality protection at affordable rates for over sixty years, today announced its 2011 CSE Youth Scholarship Program winners, an annual essay competition designed to promote awareness of driver safety among young people. This is the fifteenth year CSE has sponsored the program, which is open to eligible high school seniors in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah who are children of civil servants.
A total of $12,000 in scholarships has been awarded to winning entrants based on their essays of 500 words or less that discuss ways in which the teenage automobile accident rate can be reduced. Essays were evaluated on originality, practicality of offered ideas and written skill.
The competition drew nearly 300 entries this year. The contest was divided into three geographic regions: Northern California, Southern California, and Arizona/Nevada/Utah. In each region, CSE provided one $1,500 scholarships for first place, one $1,000 scholarship for second place, and a $500 scholarship for each of the three third place entries. The scholarship awards are to be applied toward the students' school-related expenses for the 2011-2012 academic year.
"The overall quality of entries this year was the best we have ever seen," said Pierre Bize, President and CEO of CSE Insurance. "It was extremely difficult to select the winners. However, we are delighted with the ones we've chosen. They reaffirm our belief that today's youth is far more aware of the world around them, and what can be done to make it safer, than many people realize."
The winners this year are:
Northern California
1st
Austin Hagwood
Quincy
Jr./Sr. High School
Quincy, CA
2nd
Edgar Orozco
Abraham Lincoln High School
San
Francisco, CA
3rd
Christina Won
Lowell High School
San
Francisco, CA
Rosa Escandon
Berkeley High School
Berkeley, CA
Brandon Brizendine
Freedom High School
Oakley, CA
Southern California
1st
Christine Hillmann
Mater
Dei Catholic High School
Chula Vista, CA
2nd
Charlotte Flatebo
Sherman E. Burroughs High
School
Ridgecrest, CA
3rd
Sara Miller
Mira Costa High School
Manhattan
Beach, CA
Miya King
John A. Rowland High School
Rowland Heights, CA
Anna-Marie Theriault
Borrego Springs High School
Borrego
Springs, CA
Arizona / Nevada / Utah
1st
Aisha Tso
Virgin
Valley High School
Mesquite, NV
2nd
Colt Hegardt
Queen Creek High School
Queen
Creek, AZ
3rd
Conor Montijo
Sabino High School
Tucson, AZ
Andre' Barnett
Canton Del Oro High School
Tucson, AZ
Ellen Sliwinski
Judge Memorial Catholic High School
Salt Lake
City, UT
About CSE Insurance Group
In business for more than sixty years, CSE Insurance Group (cseinsurance.com) serves the people who serve the people by providing top quality property and casualty insurance for teachers and other educators, firefighters, law enforcement personnel, and other government and civil service employees at affordable rates. CSE Insurance has also offered its products and services to the general public for more than two decades.
With a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) by insurance industry analyst A. M. Best, CSE Insurance offers a wide range of insurance products including auto, home, liability, boat and commercial. CSE Insurance products are sold through independent insurance agents in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Visit CSE on the Web at cseinsurance.com, on Twitter at twitter.com/cseinsurance, its blog at cseinsurance.com/blog and on Facebook at facebook.com/cseinsurance.
Contacts:
CSE Insurance Group
Matt Hull, 925-817-6307
Vice President of
Market Strategy and Business Development
mhull@cseinsurance.com
