Scholarships

LMCU Hutt Scholarship

Amount: $2,000
Grades: 12
Requirements:

All applicants must be a resident of Michigan or Florida, or a member of Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU), or the child of an LMCU member (i.e. a student in Texas must be a member or child of a member to be eligible). The Lloyd F. Hutt Scholarship is not open to LMCU employees, directors, and officers or their immediate families, or to employees or immediate family of any of LMCU’s affiliated companies, licensees, advertising, or promotional agencies. Immediate family includes the following: spouse, child, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparent, step parents, step children, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandchildren, and grandparents-in-law

All applicants must be high school seniors, including home school students, and plan to enter a trade school, college, or university in the next academic year. Recipients must submit evidence of acceptance and enrollment in an accredited trade school, college, or university before payment will be made.

Deadline: 11/30/2026
Website: https://www.lmcu.org/about/community-relations/hutt-scholarship/
Additional Information:

What sort of legacy do you want to leave, and how will you live your life to make that legacy a reality? Supporting prompt: Lloyd F. Hutt, a teacher and the founder of Lake Michigan Credit Union, left a legacy of financial and community empowerment. He did this by helping fellow teachers through the hardships of the Great Depression, founding LMCU under the same belief that helping a person achieve financial success can have a ripple effect of positivity on the whole community. What sort of legacy do you want to leave? What might that look like, and how will you live your life to make that legacy a reality

Note that if the official format guidelines are not followed, it could lead to ineligibility.

• Do not include your name, school name, or any other identifying information in the essay.
• Length: 750–1500 words
• Essay must be typed in an easy-to-read font (for example, Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, or Georgia)
• Essay must be typed in black font on a white background
• Essay must be double spaced
• Essay must have a title
• Essay must be saved as an Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf) file
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• Also, all essays must be original. To ensure all essays are written entirely in the applicant’s own words, each essay will be tested for plagiarized or AI-generated content. Please note that if these official format guidelines are not followed, your essay could be deemed ineligible and disqualified from scholarship consideration.

 

Questions? Email us at communityrelations@LMCU.org (subject: 2024-2025 Hutt Scholarship