NPG Awards $25,000 in Scholarships for 2021-2022 Academic Year

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• July 20, 2021
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NPG Awards $25,000 in Scholarships for 2021-2022 Academic Year

Sixteen Students Will Receive Awards for Essays Related to Overpopulation

Alexandria, VA (July 20, 2021) – Negative Population Growth leaders have announced this year’s winners of the organization’s Annual Essay Scholarship Contest. Sixteen students from across the U.S. will receive checks ranging from $5,000 to $1,000 to put toward their annual tuition.

The winning students competed for their scholarship awards by writing an original 450-600-word essay addressing the following topic:  Write a letter to President Biden that highlights why overpopulation must be part of his administration’s discussions concerning our environment, including efforts to curb climate change. The contest was open to high school seniors, as well as currently-enrolled college undergraduates.

Matthew Joseph Doty, an incoming freshman at the University of Notre Dame, received the grand prize of $5,000 through The Donald W. Mann Memorial Scholarship for Population Studies, created in memorial of NPG’s late founder and president who passed away on May 1, 2021.  Theresa Mickendrow, who worked with Don for more than 28 years, stated: “Don believed deeply in our efforts to reach young people with our critical message regarding the need for policies designed to slow, halt, and eventually reverse population growth.  He fully understood that by reaching the younger generations, before they begin to marry and start families, we have the greatest opportunity to encourage them to really consider family size and the desirable number of children.  Fortunately, most young couples are having only one or two children.  Creating a scholarship in his name is a great honor to his legacy, and to the organization to which he devoted so much time and energy.”

Other winners include Harrison Hall from Liberty University, who won $2,500.  Two students each won a $2,000 scholarship:  Jack Lee from New York University and Angela Yu from Georgetown University.  Three prizes of $1,500 were awarded to Nicole Giannetta (Ohio State University), Janathia Renee Henry (Savannah College of Art & Design), and Attalia Harmony Rogers (University of California – San Diego).  An additional nine students received scholarships of $1,000: Allison Laney Barnes (University of West Georgia), Landon Trey Crabtree (Tennessee Technological University), Akshitha Gingua (University of Michigan), Marissa Loraine Kuechenmeister (Ohio University – Athens), Eli Kurlander (Indiana University Bloomington), Jadon Lau (Northwestern University), Toheed Mahmood (Bunker Hill Community College), Carly Meulenberg (Olivet Nazarene University), and Connor Joseph Stutz (Hillsdale College).

This year’s prizes are just a portion of the tens of thousands of dollars of scholarship money NPG has awarded in recent years as part of their Youth Outreach program.  This multi-faceted program is designed to get America’s young people focused on the disastrous future that awaits their generation if our nation’s leaders fail to soon recognize and act on putting forth workable, responsible, common sense solutions to today’s ever-growing population crisis.

In addition to sponsoring their annual student scholarship competition, NPG has worked through the years with thousands of teachers nationwide who help bring its population message to America’s classrooms.  These efforts are funded through the generous support of NPG members who are especially interested in leaving a livable world to their children and grandchildren.

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