State official visits campus, presents scholarship
Dr. Mike Gavin, Vice President of Learning (left); Comptroller Peter Franchot; student winner Katie Huffman; and Cailey Locklair Tolle, president of the Maryland Retailers Association. Photo courtesy of Myles Gadsden, AACC Public Relations and Marketing Department.
September 14, 2017
The Maryland comptroller, an official who presides over state finances, visited the Anne Arundel campus Thursday to present a $1500 scholarship to an AACC freshman.
Katie Huffman won the award for her entry into a photo and caption contest that ran in August. The Maryland Retailers Association ran the contest to promote Maryland Tax-Free Week, which is held the second week of August each year.
To enter the contest, participants followed official social media accounts for the event on three platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. They then took a photo, added a “creative caption” and shared it with the hashtag #shopmdtaxfree, according to the press release on the comptroller’s official government website.
The Maryland Retailers Association provided the funds for both the winning scholarship award and the $500 runner-up.
During Tax Free Week this year, “qualifying apparel and footwear $100 or less, per item, [were] exempt from the state sales tax,” as well as the first $40 of a backpack or book bag, according to the Maryland Tax website.
