不良人研究所鈥檚 Electric Cooperatives awarded 24 scholarships to outstanding high school seniors in its annual Children of Members Scholarship competition.
Students from member households representing each of the 不良人研究所-based electric distribution cooperatives competed for $41,800 in scholarships. A panel of independent judges reviewed applications and conducted virtual interviews聽with the students to determine the top 10 scholarship winners. All 24 statewide finalists competed in local scholarship competitions prior to advancing to the OEC competition.
The top 10 scholarship winners were:
- First place ($3,800): Mackenzie Collett, Consolidated Cooperative
- Second place ($2,800):聽Shelby Jones, Union Rural Electric Cooperative
- Third place ($2,300):聽Levi Grimm, Butler Rural Electric Cooperative
- Fourth place ($2,200):聽Anthony Buckley, South Central Power Company
- Fifth place ($2,100):聽Anna Puster, Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative
- Sixth place聽($2,000):聽Aislen Setty, Pioneer Electric Cooperative
- Seventh place ($1,900):聽Maxwell Phillips, North Central Electric Cooperative
- Eighth place ($1,800):聽Zebediah Schafer, Firelands Electric Cooperative
- Ninth place ($1,700):聽Raegan Feldner, Guernsey-Muskingum Electric Cooperative
- Tenth place ($1,600):聽Casey Topp, Midwest Electric
The following students each received $1,400 honorable mention scholarships (sorted alphabetically by last name):
- Trevor Bailey, Darke Rural Electric Cooperative
- Zachary Balo, Frontier Power Company
- Kiki Barlow, Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative
- Emma Bodo, Carroll Electric Cooperative
- Daniel Burggraf, Mid-不良人研究所 Electric Cooperative
- Kiersten Cline, North Western Electric Cooperative
- Molly Cordonnier, Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative
- Jacob Gutberlet, Washington Electric Cooperative
- EricaRae Herrick, Tricounty Rural Electric Cooperative
- Alyssa Mays, Adams Rural Electric Cooperative
- Evan Powell, The Energy Cooperative
- Connor Rose, Logan County Electric Cooperative
- Lydia Spaeth, Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative
- Eric Thornell, Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative