Expires On: Monday December 2nd, 2024 5:00pm
Scholarship Provider: Operation Homefront
Career Choice:
Geographic Limitations: Kenai Peninsula
Who Can Apply: Graduating Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen, Homeschool
Dollar Amount: 10000

The annual awards recognize outstanding young people ages 13 to 18. Recipients will represent a branch of the armed forces — the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard, and Space Force — for their scholarship, volunteerism, leadership, extracurricular involvement, and other criteria while facing the challenges of military family life.

All Operation Homefront Military Child of the Year Award recipients will be flown with a parent or guardian to Washington, D.C., and recognized at the April 2025 gala, during which senior leaders of each branch of service will present the awards. They also will receive $10,000 each, a laptop computer, and other donated gifts. The gala is usually held in April, the month of the military child, as a way to recognize the support and appreciation we provide to military families.

WHAT ARE THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS?

Child must be a legal military dependent. Status confirmed by DEERS enrollment form.
Military children must be between the ages of 13 and 18, at the time of nomination.
Child and one adult guardian must be available to travel to the Washington, DC area April 8-11, during the month of the military child, for the Operation Homefront Military Child of the Year Awards Gala award presentation.

More information and nomination form can be found at https://operationhomefront.org/military-child-of-the-year