InfantSEE® Scholarship Grant Information
Vision West, Inc. (VWI), a leading national ophthalmic product buying group, and Optometry Cares – The AOA Foundation are pleased to again offer a national scholarship program to promote InfantSEE®. The winner will be awarded $5,000 and the runner-up will receive $2,500. This InfantSEE® Scholarship Grant, sponsored by Vision West, Inc., will be awarded to the author of the entry judged to be the best essay submitted to Optometry Cares.
“The 2009 InfantSEE® Scholarship Grant enabled my husband, also an optometry student, and me to work an outstanding summer externship in San Antonio without taking additional loans for living expenses. At this stage in our education, obtaining an additional loan would have been difficult, but much thanks to Vision West for sponsoring this scholarship, allowing us to keep our minds focused on learning and less concerned with financial burden.”
Ms. Jessica Unruh, University of Houston College of Optometry
2009 InfantSEE® $5,000 Scholarship Grant Recipient
Application Requirements
The student must:
- Be a third-year student member (Class of 2013) in good standing in the American Optometric Student Association and the American Optometric Association;
- Be a student in good academic standing;
- Submit a paper, written in English, not to exceed 1,000 words on the following topic:
How will you, as a primary health care provider, use your professional skills and patient treatment programs to further the goals of the InfantSEE® program?
For questions about this scholarship grant or its administration, please contact the Foundation.
