Student wins scholarship via creativity

By Justin Combs, Staff Writer

Nursing student Kristin Moore was recently awarded a $500 scholarship through Tinker Federal Credit Union based on a video contest.

Moore said she placed third out of 30 contestants.

She found out about the contest through banking online with TFCU.

“It was easy and fun,” Moore said. “People should apply for scholarships and this one seemed a lot more up-to-date.”

Moore said she’s applied for scholarships before by writing essays but to no avail.

She said the freedom to be creative attracted her to the video contest.

After finding an advertisement on the bank’s webpage about the scholarship, Moore entered a unique video that depicted spending habits that lead to overdraft fees through drawings she did herself and captured to video with the help of her husband.

“What I did was a lot more complicated than other contestants,” Moore said.

“A lot of people just recorded themselves talking.”

Moore said TFCU does the contest every year as well as other contests.

“They’re doing a contest for a still picture next,” Moore said.

“Just the funniest, most creative still picture of their thumb with a smiley face on it.”

Moore said the only criteria for entering the contest was that you had to be a current college student.

Contestants had to campaign for votes and Moore won by handing out fliers to promote her video to fellow students and friends.

For more information about the contest, go to www.BuckTheNorm.com

Staff Writer Justin Combs can be reached at StaffWriter2@occc.edu.