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Story Submissions

We want to hear from you – what motivated you to go back to school or attend college for the first time? How has free in-district tuition helped make a difference for you? Please share any photos, videos, or audio files that will help us learn your story.

*Which scholarship program are you participating in?
*Are you currently enrolled in an associate degree or certificate program?

For valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, and being the sole and final compensation to which I am entitled, I hereby give Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, its employees, agents, assigns, successors, or anyone acting under its authority or permission the absolute and unqualified right and permission to make, copyright, publish or use photographs of me, or in which I may be included in whole or in part, or reproductions thereof in color or otherwise, or my name, signature or endorsement, real or fictitious, anywhere and as often as desires, for art, advertising, commercial trade, public or private purposes; in any media, for any and all other lawful purpose whatsoever, which it may, in its discretion, deem proper for the purpose of providing public information about the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity.

I also grant permission for the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, their designated contractors and local media outlets to use my name in connection with these photographs/videotapes.

It is my further understanding and agreement that by these presents do transfer and convey to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity any and all right, title, or interest I may have in these photographs, negatives, transparencies or copies thereof and all monies, proceeds, or values that may be derived or received therefrom.

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*I hereby warrant that I have full legal capacity to execute this release.