LANSING, Mich. — LAFCU has awarded its 2015 “Write to Educate” $2,500 college scholarship to Hadleigh Buchler, of Jackson and a recent graduate of Northwest High School. As part of the contest award, the winner selects a charity to receive a $500 donation from LAFCU. Buchler chose the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Shiawassee County.
Buchler will use the Lansing Community College (LCC) scholarship to pursue a degree in education to become a teacher.
The LAFCU Write to Educate scholarship contest winner was selected based on a one-page essay about social media and its effects on real-life relationships. Buchler noted in her essay that social media has provided an additional way to get to know others, versus spending time with one another or just communicating verbally by phone. However not all of social media is positive.
“Social media allows people to hide behind their screens and portray false images or post hurtful and untrue things,” Buchler said. “It can also make some feel as if their lives are inadequate.
LAFCU 2015 Write to Educate LCC – On hand for the presentation of the 2015 LAFCU Write to Educate Scholarship are Ellen Lynch and Marvel Mulholland, with the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Shiawassee County, LAFCU's Alyssa Sliger, Angie Ruzinsky and Kelli A. Ellsworth Etchison, scholarship recipient Hadleigh Buchler, LCC’s Peggy Hellwig, and the council's Rae-Ann Hartsuff.