Smile Scholarship

It's time to announce the 2026 Smile Scholarship Winners! Click below to view the winning submissions!

It's time to announce the 2024 Smile Scholarship Winners! Click below to view the winning submissions!

We are very excited to once again offer up to five $1,000 scholarships to any high school graduate who is or will be attending a four— year university. This is open to our patients as well as any Illinois Valley area graduating senior or current college student. Applicants will be asked to submit either a short essay, video, or artistic work answering the question: Tell us about a time when you helped bring people together - whether by resolving a disagreement, finding commo

It's time to announce the 2023 Smile Scholarship Winners! Click below to view the winning submissions as they are announced over the next few days!

Elizabeth Wenzel During the challenging and difficult past couple of years throughout the pandemic, being kind to each other has been more important than ever before. My life lesson is to show compassionate care and empathy to all and to devote myself to the best practices in nursing, while being respectful and honest. From a very young age, helping others has been my priority and I have strived to put a smile on the faces of others. Over the past few years, I have challeng