The Nickelson Family has entrusted California Freethought Day to facilitate a scholarship, in their name, for public high school and college students in California.

They will award a minimum of $2,500 to a student who writes an essay, between 300-700 words, discussing one (or more) of the following:

• the separation of church and state,
• being good without religion,
• living in a secular society,
• Christian nationalism, or
• religious bigotry.

• have an interest in free speech, science, and the separation of church and state; and
• in May of the current year, attended a California public high school or college (any level); and
• plan to pursue (or currently pursuing) postsecondary education at a community college, four-year college, trade school, or vocational school.