Northern Plains Electric Cooperative and Basin Electric Power Cooperatives offers a $1,000 scholarship yearly to a dependent of a member of Northern Plains Electric.

Every June, as many as 1,500 high school students from across the country spend a week in the nation's capital as part of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Youth Tour. 

Recognizing that school budgets are often tight, and to help defray trip expenses, Northern Plains Electric's board of directors has approved a $200 donation to any high school in the cooperative's service area that takes a group of students to the state Capitol to view North Dakota's legislative process in action. 
 

As part of our youth education programs every year, Northern Plains Electric Cooperative offers its assistance to local school districts (in Northern Plains service area) in scheduling tours of the Antelope Valley coal-generating plant, the Coteau Freedom coal mine and the Great Plains coal gasification plant.

Annually, NPEC sponsors a safety poster contest for children in kindergarten to sixth grade. The purpose of the safety poster contest is to help make children aware of the dangers of electricity. Click for rules and deadline.