{"id":117894,"date":"2026-01-14T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:36:08","slug":"2026-do-the-right-thing-scholarship-and-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117894\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Do the Right Thing Scholarship and Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Main-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"477\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral high school seniors are invited to apply for the Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s 2026 \u201cDo The Right Thing\u201d Scholarship, which will award two $2,000 scholarships and three $1,000 scholarships to graduating students.<\/p>\n<p>Scholarship detailsOpen to graduating seniors in 2026 who have demonstrated strong character and a commitment to doing the right thing.Awards available: two scholarships of $2,000 and three scholarships of $1,000.Application requirements<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must submit:<\/p>\n<p>A resumeMinimum GPA of 2.5 or betterTwo letters of recommendationA 300-word essayHow to apply<\/p>\n<p>Send completed applications to:<br \/>Cape Coral Police Department<br \/>\u201cDo The Right Thing\u201d Program<br \/>P.O. Box 150027<br \/>Cape Coral, FL 33915<\/p>\n<p>Deadline<\/p>\n<p>All application materials must be received by April 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2026-Scholarship-Flyer-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-14500\" width=\"1545\" height=\"2000\" title=\"2026 Scholarship Flyer\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral high school seniors are invited to apply for the Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s 2026 \u201cDo The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-117894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}