Scholarships
Renville-Sibley Cooperative Power Association, along with Basin Electric Power Cooperative, will be offering $5,000 in scholarship money to students in this region. The scholarships are for the 2012 – 2013 school year.
Each of the 125 cooperatives, including Renville-Sibley, that are members of Basin Electric will be allocated a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded to a dependent of a member (or employee) of their respective local cooperatives.
A $1,000 Memorial Scholarship in honor of Tom Simmons, past attorney for the Cooperative, will be awarded to an individual interested in a position related to the electric industry. Renville-Sibley will also award three additional scholarships of $1,000 each to selected applicants.
The past 10 years, Renville-Sibley has participated with other Minnesota electric cooperatives in sponsoring the continuation of the Jay York Scholarship. Mr. York was a Lake Wilson farmer who dedicated his life to the rural electric program and to education in rural Minnesota. He was the first Minnesotan to serve as president of the National Rural Electric Association (NRECA). Scholarships are available each year from this program and are selected by random drawing. Each participating cooperative may submit one candidate’s name for the drawing.
All scholarship applicants must be U.S. citizens and a dependent of a member of the Renville-Sibley Cooperative. They must be enrolled or plan to enroll as a full-time student in an undergraduate course of study at an accredited two-year or four-year college, university or vocational/technical school. Applications will be accepted until March 2, 2012. Successful applicants will be notified prior to and announced to the public at the Cooperative’s Annual Meeting on March 26, 2012.
A committee of Renville-Sibley Board members, as well as an employee of the cooperative, will select the successful candidates to receive the scholarships. The Basin Electric $1,000 scholarship, the Tom Simmons Memorial $1,000 scholarship will be awarded based on a combination of SAT/ACT scores and overall grade point average, work experiences, participation in school and community activities, the personal statement of career goals and the written recommendation by a third party. The remaining $3,000 in scholarships will be awarded based on a combination of participation in voluntary community and school activities, work experiences, statement of career goals and a written recommendation by a third party.
Only one completed application is required for an applicant to be considered a candidate for any of the available scholarships. For more information and a scholarship application form, contact Renville-Sibley at 1-800-826-2593 or 826-2593 or click on the links below.
