Scholarships
Sun River Electric, Montana Electric Cooperatives' Association and Basin Electric Power Cooperative are offering several scholarships to students who live on the Sun River Electric system. Applications are available at SREC or your local school. MECA offers two $500 scholarships and Basin Electric will offer one $1,000 scholarship. Sun River Electric offers ten $500 scholarships, one to each school in the SREC service area. The deadlines are as follows:
| Basin Electric Power Cooperative | January 27, 2012 |
| MECA | January 27, 2012 |
| Sun River Electric | April 6, 2012 |
If you are interested in any of these scholarships and need applications, please contact Ross at SREC. 1-800-452-7516 or 467-2526
SUN RIVER ELECTRIC SCHOLARSHIP
Who is eligible?
Graduating seniors who are dependant children of SREC consumers, and will be a freshman at a college or trade school.
What is the amount of the scholarship?
There are ten $500 scholarships going to high schools in the SREC service area. These scholarships are partially funded by capital credit checks that have been unclaimed for more that 5 years and have been considered abandoned property.
How do I apply?
Sun River Electric furnishes instructions and applications to high school counselors in the service area. The application deadline is in April.
2011 SUN RIVER ELECTRIC SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
Nine area students have been selected to receive the 2011 Sun River Electric Cooperative Scholarship. Criteria for the scholarship includes: academics, parents or guardian must be a SREC member and the student must write a paragraph on future goals.
| HIGHWOOD | Damon Alm |
| SIMMS | Katherine Leonardson |
| POWER | Gus Somerfeld |
| AUGUSTA | Mariah Lea Hayes |
| CONRAD | Amber Lee Stenson |
| FAIRFIELD | Lexi Bremer |
| VALIER | Bradley Holden |
| CHOTEAU | Alexis Daley |
| DUTTON/BRADY | Clinton Habel |
Over the past 17 years Sun River Electric Cooperative has awarded more than $85,000 to ten area schools.
Sun River Electric Cooperative believes in educating today’s young adults.
The scholarships are funded by the general budget and are offset by unclaimed capital credit checks.
MECA SCHOLARSHIP
Who is eligible?
You must be a member of Sun River Electric Cooperative, or a son or daughter of a member. The applicant must be either a graduating high school senior entering his or her freshman year at a college or trade school or a current college undergraduate student. Graduate students are ineligible.
What is the amount of the scholarship?
There are two $500 scholarships statewide.
How do I apply?
To apply, the applicant can pick up an application at the Sun River Electric office in Fairfield, Montana, or call 1-406-467-2526 or 1-800-452-7516, and we will mail an application to you. You may also get an application from a high school guidance counselor of a high school in the SREC service area. The deadline for the applications is in January.
BASIN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE SCHOLARSHIP
Who is eligible?
You must be a member of Sun River Electric Cooperative, or a son or daughter of a member. The applicant must be either a graduating high school senior entering his or her freshman year at a college or trade school or a current college undergraduate student. Graduate students are ineligible.
What is the amount of the scholarship?
There is one $1,000 scholarship for a Sun River Electric applicant.
How do I apply?
To apply, the applicant can pick up an application at the Sun River Electric office in Fairfield, Montana, or call 1-406-467-2526 or 1-800-452-7516, and we will mail an application to you. You may also get an application from a high school guidance counselor of a high school in the SREC service area. The deadline for the applications is in January.
Sydnie Manual-McInerney of Fairfield has been selected to receive the 2011 Basin Electric Power Cooperative $1,000 college scholarship. Sydnie will be attending Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. She plans on majoring in accounting and is the daughter of Mark and Kelly McInerney of Fairfield.
