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Ideas and Project Focus

For this assignment, Ross Turner, Jenn Gibson, and Adriana Vanderheyden have decided to edit the Wikipedia entry for the HOPE scholarship.

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We wanted to choose a topic that would be relevant to each and every member of the group. Ross is a Journalism major while Jenn and Adriana are Secondary English Education. The goal was to decide on a single topic that was and is important to all of us, no matter the area of study. And we came up with the HOPE scholarship program.

We decided on HOPE because we felt like it was obviously a pertinent topic to thousands of college students in the state of Georgia. However, its importance isn't solely limited to college students. High school students need to be and are concerned with the HOPE scholarship as well because it is your earned grades in high school that help to determine your eligibility for the scholarship. If the scholarship continues in effect for the ten years, Jenn and Adriana can very well easily be teaching students whose personal goals are to achieve high enough G.P.A.s in order to earn the scholarship. That was one aspect that drew us to this particular topic. It is hugely relelvant in high school. However, you don't stop worrying about HOPE and your grades once you've been accepted to the school of your choice, and are declared eligible for the scholarship. While your credits remain under the maximum amount that can be paid by HOPE, it is every recipient's job to maintain a suitable G.P.A. so as to keep hold of the scholarship. And so it is also obviously important in college. We felt that this topic would be a good blend, and would afford every group member the opportunity to invest in the topic.

As it stood before we three began editing, the HOPE scholarship page was very bare (as can be seen in the 'Before Editing Screen Shots' page). Now that we have completed our editing, the page looks suitably full.