Scholarship Season is Here

Two scholarships available for fall 2023 school year 

By Katie Luckett, Marketing, Communications, Education Manager

The Choptank Electric Trust Board is pleased to announce that our annual scholarship program will begin accepting applications on January 2, 2023. The Choptank Electric Trust Scholarship awards nine $2,000 scholarships every May to high school or home-schooled seniors, graduating juniors, or first-semester graduating seniors whose parent or legal guardian is a current member or employee of Choptank Electric Cooperative. Applicants must enter a post-high school educational institution or technical/trade school as a freshman in the fall of 2023. 

Scholarship recipients are selected based on a combination of the following criteria: 

• Financial need

• Academic achievement

• Extracurricular and  community activities

• References

• Personal essay

The required essay should be limited to two typed, double-spaced pages on the following topic: “Why have I chose to continue my education and how will this scholarship assist me?”
Letters of reference are required and may be from school administrators, teachers, civic leaders, clergy or neighbors (not from relatives). Please limit to three references. The Academic Information section of the application must be completed by the student’s guidance counselor or other appropriate school official. 

Applications postmarked after March 15 will not be eligible for consideration. For additional information and to download the application, please visit www.choptankelectric.coop/scholarships

Please submit the completed application to:

Choptank Electric 
Trust Scholarship
Attn: Trust 
P.O. Box 426
Denton, MD 21629

The application must be postmarked no later than, or hand-delivered to the Denton or Salisbury office, by 4:30 p.m. on March 15. Any incomplete applications will not be considered. 

The VMDAEC Education Scholarship

Electric cooperatives in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware are preparing to accept scholarship applications for high school seniors who intend to pursue higher education studies.
These $1,000 scholarships are awarded by the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives Education Scholarship Foundation, which has provided nearly 1,000 scholarships to graduating high school students since 2001, totaling more than $900,000.
“This program has helped hundreds of students advance their education and demonstrates, once again, how electric cooperatives are committed to their members and the communities they serve,” says Brian Mosier, president and CEO of VMDAEC

The application opens on January 30, 2023, with the application deadline on April 3. Award recipients will be notified no later than June 1. The online application and additional information can be found at vmdaec.com/scholarship. Any high school or home-schooled senior graduating in spring 2023, and whose primary residence is served by Choptank Electric Cooperative, is eligible to apply for a $1,000 scholarship toward a two or four-year college or trade school. 

An applicant must be entering his or her first semester at a post-secondary or technical/trade school in the fall of 2023. Scholarship funds will be sent directly to the educational institution and must be used toward tuition, student fees, room and board, or textbooks. 

The Foundation’s board of directors will select recipients based on these weighted criteria: financial need at 40%, academic achievement at 40%, and personal statement at 20%. Questions about donations and the application process should be directed to: scholarship@vmdaec.com.