High School Student Wins $20,000 With Single Tweet
We just had to follow-up on this story: a high school senior has landed herself a $20,000 scholarship after tweeting her “essay” about why she deserved the KFC-sponsored money. We reported earlier that this contest was in full swing, and after all tweets were read in late November, a single student has won her way through college in 140-characters or less.
KFC Colonel’s Scholars sponsored this Twitter-centric scholarship contest, requiring US high school students send in not a 2,000 word essay about why they want to go to college, but rather a single tweet.
Amanda Russell, 17, from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California is the lucky winner of the $20,000 scholarship.
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