You should look for an email response confirming that we received your essay within 2 business days of when you sent your essay. If you have not received it please try resending your essay or contact us directly.

All of the information that is needed to complete the essay is in the posts below. You may have to access older posts through the archives on the side bar. The topic question is in bold and all of the winning essays from the American students in 2009 are also in older posts on the blog. Please feel free to use them as a reference.

Please send the essay to GCScholarship@ef.com. If within in two business days you have not received a response confirming that we have received your essay please resend it or you can contact us at Education.Department@ef.com - but specify that you are an indian submission.

We recommend that your essay be aprox. 1500 words.

The 2 Million Minutes Documentary talks about what students from different countries do with the time that they have in 9-12 standard (4 years x 365 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes = 2 Million Minutes). We want you to imagine how 14,000 minutes on an educational tour could help you develop characteristics to help you in your future pursuits. Please use your creativity to write an essay about how you think you will benefit from traveling on an educational tour to China with students from America. What do skills do you think that you will learn by meeting other students and talking to them about their lives, culture, hobbies and school? Also, speak about how this experience and what you learn on tour is going to help you with your future Career and/or University admissions.

This is an essay competiton for students where the 10 winners from India will be traveling on a Free Educational Tour to China. The topic prompt and more details are in the posts below and all essays must be submitted by 28 Feb. If you have further questions, please call +91 11 4605 3003 or email GCScholarship@ef.com