Submission Rules
Essay Scholarship Rules & Prompt: $600 1st Place, $200 2nd Place
How do you envision your role in ensuring that the violations that occurred at TCDS don’t recur? Why should the history of TCDS be preserved?
- One essay per person, maximum 500 words, double spaced in .docx format. Please title your work.
- Essay and entry form must be submitted to TCDSscholarship@gmail.com by midnight October 16, 2025.
- Judges will review for originality, writing skill, depth, historic accuracy, and clear action recommendations.
- No AI written or assisted essays will be accepted.
Art Scholarship Rules & Prompt: $600 1st Place $200 2nd Place
Only the oaks stand testament to the civil liberties violations that occurred at the TCDS: no historic buildings exist. Create Art that will enable people to understand the history of TCDS and feel deeply enough to stop future civil liberty violations.
- One art entry per person.
- Visual Art may originate in the following formats (tif, jpeg, pdf), 600 dpi or greater, and submitted electronically with entry form to TCDSscholarship@gmail.comby midnight, Oct. 16, 2025.
- Judges will review art based on originality, artistic expression, and skill, applicability to the history of Tuna Canyon, and adherence to the theme.
- No AI created art will be accepted.
Video Scholarship Rules & Prompt: $600 1st Place $200 2nd Place
Create a video between 1-3 minutes providing reasons to preserve the history of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station. You may use interviews, pictures, and video (with credit) from the TCDS website.
- One video entry per person. Submission with entry form before midnight Oct. 16, 2025.
- The video (.mov, mp4, or .avi) should be between 1-3 minutes and submitted with below entry form to TCDSscholarship@gmail.com. Provide a sharable link to the video.
- Judges will review the video based upon originality, factual accuracy, audio and visual quality (no PowerPoint) as well as the video’s ability to evoke emotions or actions.
- Collaborations will be accepted.
All Scholarship Applicants must review the attached factsheet. Winners announced/posted November 15, 2025.