{"id":7295,"date":"2020-01-10T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siea.com\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:19:00","slug":"more-than-30000-in-scholarship-funding-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siea.com\/uncategorized\/more-than-30000-in-scholarship-funding-available\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $30,000 in scholarship funding available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>8:00 a.m. \u2013 Thursday, December 12, 2019 &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Applications are now being accepted for $32,000 in scholarship funding from San Isabel Electric\u2019s Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Online applications and eligibility information is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/siea.com\/scholarships\">siea.com\/scholarships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for the following scholarships are due February 28, 2020:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One $5,000 Powered-Up Scholarship and 22 $1,000 San Isabel Electric Scholarships<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applicants must be high school seniors planning to attend accredited colleges and universities.\u00a0 Two students from each of the 11 high schools in the San Isabel Electric service territory will be selected to receive a scholarship. The 22 recipients of the San Isabel Electric Scholarship will have the opportunity to compete for one $5,000 Powered-Up Scholarship.\u00a0 The Powered-Up Scholarship is only available to recipients of the San Isabel Electric Scholarship and the recipient must also meet additional requirements to be eligible.\u00a0 San Isabel Electric will donate $500 to the high school attended by the recipient of the Powered-Up Scholarship.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two $1,000 At-large Scholarships<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applicants do not have to attend a high school in San Isabel Electric\u2019s service territory, but they must reside in the state of Colorado to be eligible. Applicants must be high school seniors planning to attend accredited colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two $1,000 Vocational Scholarships<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applicants must be planning to attend an occupational training program of two-years or less at an accredited vocational school, technical school, community college, or junior college and be classified as a full-time student.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One $1,000 Continuing Education Scholarship<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applicants must have completed high school for a minimum of two-years and must be planning to attend an accredited college, university, vocational or technical school, community college, or junior college. The applicant must also be a current member-owner of San Isabel Electric.<\/p>\n<p>Basin Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC), one of San Isabel Electric\u2019s power suppliers, will also award one $1,000 scholarship to a San Isabel Electric member-owner or member-owner dependent. The application deadline for the BEPC Scholarship is February 14, 2020. The scholarship application, requirements and deadline are also available at <a href=\"https:\/\/siea.com\/scholarships\">siea.com\/scholarships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All the scholarship opportunities require the applicant or the student\u2019s parent(s) or legal guardian(s) to be a current San Isabel Electric member-owner.<\/p>\n<p>San Isabel Electric has been awarding scholarships since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/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 24,000 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>8:00 a.m. \u2013 Thursday, December 12, 2019 &#8211;\u00a0Applications are now being accepted for $32,000 in scholarship funding from San Isabel Electric\u2019s Board of Directors. Online applications and eligibility information is available at siea.com\/scholarships. Applications for the following scholarships are due February 28, 2020: One $5,000 Powered-Up Scholarship and 22 $1,000 San Isabel Electric Scholarships Applicants [&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\/7295"}],"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=7295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siea.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}