Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Scholarship Program
The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Association is offering annual scholarships to college and high school students who are planning to attend college or similar institute. Applicants do not need to be Smith Family descendants to enter.
Application Deadline: Saturday, June 21st, 2025.
Scholarship Theme:
How learning about Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith’s family’s values and sacrifices can help me and my family honor their legacy.
Purpose:
The scholarship program’s purpose is to help the youth learn about the great legacy and values demonstrated by the Smith Family, with the hope that this program will help to instill those values in our youth today. For this reason, all submissions will be in video format. You can also submit artwork, an essay or poem as your main submission, but they will also need a short explanation video (See instructions for more information).
Scholarship applicants should learn about the Smith Sr. Family and reflect what they learned in their Scholarship Submission. As the purpose is to engage today’s youth, the scholarship submissions should be geared towards other youth. Submissions should be fun and interesting.
Scholarship Grand Prize: $1000
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250
- Review eligibility and instructions
- Fill out the Scholarship Application
- Get a recommendation letter
- Check out these Smith Family Stories for inspiration
- Send your recommendation and scholarship submission to scholarship@josephsmithsr.org or follow the instructions below to upload the files to Dropbox
Instructions for uploading large files, videos, and photos
- In a browser window, navigate to the following link on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/request/iRDRBUHCTYy0GnHkHUsx
- Click on the “Choose files” link.
- Point to the video file you would like to upload and click on the “Open” button.
- Enter your name and e-mail address and click on the “Upload” button.
- A progress window will appear. Please wait until the video has been uploaded.
- Close your browser window.
I have 4 kids who are descendants of Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. Are they each allowed to make a submission?
Yes
I’m not finding the instructions on where to apply. Are they on this website?
I found it!
My daughter would like to apply but use an essay as her main submission. You indicate that she still needs to submit a video and that she should see “instructions for more information.” The instructions are just about uploading a video but not about what the video should include, how long it should be and the nature of the content–maybe just how her essay reflects the theme or what? Also do you want to see them personally in the video, or just sound. thanks so much for the opportunity
The video here https://josephsmithsr.org/2018/09/23/scholarship-2018-3rd-place/ gives an example if submitting an essay. Instructions are https://josephsmithsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/JSSR-Scolarship-Application-and-Eligibility-Information.pdf. I hope this helps.
An example of a video for an essay can be found: https://josephsmithsr.org/2018/09/23/scholarship-2018-3rd-place/.
On the application form, the deadline is still listed as April 3. Is the deadline still extended to June 1, 2020?
How are we to give likes to the submissions? Where do we find them ?