Contact: Priscilla Knight, 703-392-1580, pknight@novec.com
NORTHERN VIRGINIA—The Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative and the Virginia, Maryland, Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives are accepting applications from Northern Virginia high school seniors for higher-education scholarships.
NOVEC's Dollars for Scholars
NOVEC's Dollars for Scholars program will award $1,500 scholarships to high school students whose parents or guardians receive electric power from NOVEC. Selection committees will award a scholarship to one student in each of Fauquier, Loudoun, and Stafford counties, and the City of Manassas Park. Because of the large number of NOVEC customers who live in Prince William and Fairfax counties, two students in each of these counties will receive scholarships. The selection committees will award another $1,500 scholarship to a student who lives in NOVEC's service territory and either attends private school or is home-schooled.
Each county's selection committee will look for students who have demonstrated scholastic achievement, community service, work experience, and leadership skills. The committees will award the J. Manley Garber Scholarship to the overall top student for an additional $1,500. The winner of this scholarship will receive a total of $3,000.
A scholarship applicant must:
- Be a college-bound high school senior whose parents or guardians currently receive electric service from NOVEC
- Have at least a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale and submit an official transcript that includes first-semester grades
- Submit Student Achievement Test scores
- Demonstrate a wide range of participation and leadership in extracurricular activities, community service and/or work experience
- Submit two letters of recommendation – one from a high school official, such as a teacher or counselor, and one from a community member
- Submit a 400-word typed essay – directions are included with the application form
A student may download a Dollars for Scholars application by visiting www.novec.com/Community/scholarships.cfm. Or, students may contact Donna Snellings at dsnellings@novec.com or 703-392-1511.
Students should mail their completed applications to: Donna Snellings, NOVEC, P.O. Box 2710, Manassas, VA 20108, or hand deliver them to a NOVEC office no later than April 5, 2010. Failure to submit a complete package by the deadline will disqualify a student from consideration.
NOVEC representatives will present scholarships at pre-graduation ceremonies at the schools of selected students. The August edition of Cooperative Living magazine and NOVEC's Web site will list the names of all scholarship recipients.
VMDAEC Scholarships
High school seniors whose parents or guardians are customer-owners of electric cooperatives throughout Virginia are eligible to apply for post-high school educational institution scholarships awarded by the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives Educational Scholarship Foundation.
The foundation will award $500 and $1,000 scholarships to students who have been selected based on financial need, academic achievement, and community involvement. VMDAEC will send scholarship funds directly to a recipient's chosen educational institution for help with tuition, fees, and books.
Applications are available at www.co-opliving.com/community/scholarship.htm or by mail: VMDAEC Scholarships, P.O. Box 2340, Glen Allen, VA 23058-2340.
Applications and all required materials are due no later than April 1, 2010. The VMDAEC Educational Foundation awarded 48 scholarships totaling $43,500 to students throughout Virginia in 2009. It has awarded 262 scholarships since 2000.
VMDAEC provides training, communications, legislative and other services to NOVEC and 15 other electric cooperatives in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
