NOVEC kicks off scholarship season

  Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) and the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives (VMDAEC) are accepting applications from high school seniors for higher-education scholarships.

NOVEC’s Dollars for Scholars Program committees will award $1,500 scholarships to qualifying high school students in NOVEC’s service territory: Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William and Stafford counties and the City of Manassas Park.

The selection committees will award an additional $1,500 scholarship to a student in NOVEC’s service territory who either attends private school or is home-schooled.

From the scholarship winners, the committees will select the overall outstanding student for the $1,500 J. Manley Garber Scholarship. The winner of this scholarship will therefore receive a total of $3,000.

Download the Dollars for Scholars application at http://www.novec.com/community/index.cfm and selecting “Scholarships,” or by contacting Donna Snellings at: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) , 703-392-1511, or toll free 1-888-335-0500, ext 1511.

Mail completed applications to: Donna Snellings, NOVEC, P.O. Box 2710, Manassas, VA 20108; or hand deliver them to a NOVEC office in Manassas, Gainesville or Wooddbridge by March 23, 2012.

High school seniors whose parents or guardians are electric cooperative customer-owners are eligible to apply for 2012 educational scholarships, which will be awarded VMDAEC Educational Scholarship Foundation. An applicant must be entering a post-high-school educational institution as a freshman in autumn 2012.

The foundation will award $500 and $1,000 scholarships directly to a recipient’s chosen educational institution for help with tuition, fees, and books.
Applications are available at http://www.vmdaec.com or www.co-opliving.com/community/scholarship.htm or by mail: VMDAEC Scholarships, P.O. Box 2340, Glen Allen, VA, 23058-2340.

A completed application and all attachments must be received in the VMDAEC office by 4 p.m. on April 2, 2012. Call 804-968-7153 for additional information.

The VMDAEC Educational Scholarship Foundation Board has awarded 319 scholarships totaling $228,500 to students in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware since 2000
VMDAEC outside Richmond provides training, communications, legislative and other services to NOVEC and 14 other electric cooperatives in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.