{"id":32847,"date":"2024-02-05T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siea.com\/?p=32847"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:19:53","slug":"time-is-running-out-to-apply-for-a-san-isabel-electric-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siea.com\/uncategorized\/time-is-running-out-to-apply-for-a-san-isabel-electric-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is running out to apply for a San Isabel Electric scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For immediate release:<br \/>\nMonday, February 5, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Time is running out to apply for one of San Isabel Electric\u2019s scholarships. Candidates must complete their applications online by 5 p.m. on February 15.<\/p>\n<p>San Isabel Electric typically awards more than $30,000 in scholarship funds every year to local youth. The not-for-profit electric cooperative offers several different $1,000 scholarship opportunities for member-owners and their dependents.<\/p>\n<p>Eligibility criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimum GPA of 2.0.<\/li>\n<li>Students should be planning to attend an accredited college and\/or university, or an occupational training program lasting two years or less at an accredited vocational school, technical school, community college, or junior college during the 2024\u20132025 academic year.<\/li>\n<li>Scholarship applicants must have a parent or guardian who buys electricity from San Isabel Electric.<\/li>\n<li>The applicant\u2019s primary address must be in Colorado.<\/li>\n<li>Eligible students must either be graduating from high school in the 2023-2024 academic year and planning to enroll in higher education the consecutive fall or have taken at least a two-year break in their educational journey and are planning to return to school in the fall of 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The San Isabel Electric Board of Directors scores the applicants based on their resume, cover letter, letters of recommendation, their answer to a 300-word essay, as well as the grammar and punctuation of their overall application.<\/p>\n<p>The co-op also invites the top-scoring applicants to compete for an additional $4,000 scholarship, called the Powered-Up Scholarship. San Isabel Electric donates $500 to the high school of the Powered-Up Scholarship recipient.<\/p>\n<p>Students, or their parent or guardian, must buy electricity from San Isabel Electric to qualify for a scholarship. Applications, details about the different scholarship opportunities, and complete eligibility requirements are available online at siea.com\/scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>San Isabel Electric has been awarding scholarships since 2000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p>As a not-for-profit cooperative utility, San Isabel Electric provides affordable, reliable electricity, with exceptional service to communities throughout southern Colorado. Serving nearly 20,000 member-owners and 25,000 meters, San Isabel Electric has been keeping the lights on since 1938. We don\u2019t just serve communities. We are part of communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For immediate release: Monday, February 5, 2024 Time is running out to apply for one of San Isabel Electric\u2019s scholarships. Candidates must complete their applications online by 5 p.m. on February 15. San Isabel Electric typically awards more than $30,000 in scholarship funds every year to local youth. The not-for-profit electric cooperative offers several different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32848,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32847\/revisions\/32848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}