Landrum High School senior, Ben Murray, has been named as one of South Carolina’s top ten semifinalists selected for the 2018 U.S. Senate Youth Scholarship Competition.

These semifinalists will now move to the final round of the competition on Nov. 28, which will include a personal student interview with a panel of judges for the U.S. Senate Youth Scholarship competition. 

In addition, semifinalists will also be recognized and honored on this day by State Superintendent of Education, Molly Spearman, at an awards luncheon scheduled at noon at the SC Department of Education’s Rutledge Conference Center.  

The state’s two winning delegates and two alternates will be selected from this group of outstanding students. The two winning delegates will each receive a $10,000 college scholarship for undergraduate studies, with encouragement to pursue coursework in history and political science.

In addition, they will spend an all-expense paid trip to Washington Week, scheduled for March 3-10, 2018, where they will have the opportunity to see the federal government and Supreme Court in action. Student delegates will hear major policy addresses by senators, cabinet members, officials from the Departments of State and Defense and directors of other federal agencies, as well as participate in a meeting with a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

 Out of the above top ten semifinalists, the state’s two winning delegates and two alternates will be announced by Dec. 10, 2017.  

– submitted by Sandra Williams