Simon Kenton High School senior Brett Bockmon has been named as one of six winners of the Better Business Bureau’s Thomas J. Klinedinst, Jr. Memorial Students of Integrity Scholarship, worth $5,000.
The scholarship competition is an essay contest in which students must address an ethical quandary. Hundreds of students around the Better Business Bureau of Cincinnati’s 22-county service area competed for a prize.
The essay topic for this year related to hustle culture, the pressure for endless productivity and achievement and the shortcuts it sometimes induces, especially among students.
“I’ve come to believe that shortcuts are only justifiable when they are forms of honest prioritization rather than unfair advantage,” Brockmon wrote in his essay.
Bockmon plans to attend the University of Kentucky, where he will major in finance and minor in international business. He hopes to work in investment banking, private equity or business analytics.
Read Bockman’s winning essay below.