Vision West, Inc. and Optometry Cares^® are pleased to again offer a national scholarship program to promote InfantSEE^®.   The winner will be awarded $5,000and the runner-up will receive $2,500.  Each college of optometry is invited to submit one nominee.  TheInfantSEE^® Scholarship Grantwill be awarded to the best essay in accordance with the criteria listed below.

The student must:

• Be a third-year student (Class of 2014) and a member of the American Optometric Student Association (AOSA)
• Be a student in good academic standing;
• Before the December 20th  deadline….submit a 1,000 word paper to Dr. Kristi Jensen (kajensen@westernu.edu) addressing EACH of the following topics
• What have you done as a student to prepare yourself to become an active participant as an InfantSEE^® provider?
• How have your clinical experiences directly contributed to your development as a future participant in the InfantSEE^® program and how you will translate these experiences into clinical practice as an InfantSEE^® provider?
• What do you see as the major challenges to providing optometric care to infants and how would you overcome these challenges?  
• Describe how you would personally promote the InfantSEE^® program and what you envision the most effective method of marketing the importance of infant vision as an entry point into a lifetime of eye care at a state and national level. 

For more information, please contact Dr. Jensen at kajensen@westernu.edu