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2023-2023 scholarship is now closed. 

October 14, 2022

NORTHERN PLAINS ELECTRIC ANNOUNCES 2023 SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

Northern Plains Electric Cooperative and Basin Electric Power Cooperatives are offering a $1,000 scholarship to a dependent of a member of Northern Plains Electric for the 2023-2024 school year.

Basin Electric, is a consumer-owned and controlled regional cooperative responsible for supplying wholesale electric power to nine Midwestern states.  Each of the 141 rural electric cooperatives that make up Basin Electric, including Northern Plains Electric Cooperative, receives $1,000 from Basin Electric to award a scholarship to a qualifying dependent of a Northern Plains Electric member, who will be enrolled as a college freshman or college sophomore for the upcoming school year.

The scholarship program, which is in it's thirty-second year, recognizes and encourages the academic achievements of students in the region.  It also serves as an investment in the economic future of rural areas.

Applicants for the scholarship must be a high school senior or college freshman enrolled or planning to enroll in a full-time course of study at an accredited, two-year or four-year college, university or vocational/technical school in the Fall of 2023.  

Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of academic record, potential to succeed, leadership and participation in school and community activities, honors, work experience, a statement of education and career goals, an outside appraisal and a written essay on the following topic:
What challenges face rural electric cooperatives in the coming years and how do you think challenges should be addressed? 

Application deadline is January 31, 2023.  
Please mail applications to: 
Northern Plains Electric Cooperative
Attn: Brittnee Wilson
P.O. Box 608
Cando, ND  58324

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  • Member Services
    • Call Before You Dig
    • Capital Credits
    • Economic Development
    • Students Only!
      • Kids Corner
      • Legislative Field Trips
      • Power Plant Tours
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      • Scholarship
      • Youth Tour
    • Together We Save
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  • Distributed Energy Resource
    • Solar Research Project
    • DER Policies
  • Storm Center
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