{"id":37406,"date":"2021-07-07T17:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37406"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T00:56:32","slug":"maryland-unveils-college-scholarship-lottery-to-get-teens-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37406","title":{"rendered":"Maryland unveils college scholarship lottery to get teens vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland will offer full-ride college scholarships as an incentive to get teenagers vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov.\u00a0Larry Hogan\u00a0(R) announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The VaxU Scholarship Promotion will offer $50,000 scholarships, or the equivalent of full tuition and fees for a public four-year college or university, to 20 vaccinated students between the ages of 12 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning July 12 and running for eight weeks, two winners will be randomly selected each Monday. On Labor Day, four additional winners will be selected.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan said the winners will receive a Maryland 529 Prepaid College Trust contract, which locks in\u00a0current tuition rates for the future, or a Maryland 529 College Investment Plan.<\/p>\n<p>If the students decide to attend private or out-of-state school, the scholarship can be transferred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland will offer full-ride college scholarships&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37407,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406\/revisions\/37407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}