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to the PGWA scholarship
application that you can print and mail to us.
The New PGWA Scholarship Program
by David Powell, Director
The
Pennsylvania Ground Water Association will be offering scholarships to qualified
candidates beginning in 2007. Scholarships will be funded from the new PGWA
Scholarship Fund. The scholarship eligibility requirements are:
1. Applicant must be a
member or have a relative who is a member of PGWA. The applicant’s relative
must be a father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, brother or sister.
2. Applicant must be
accepted at a college, university, trade, or technical school. Student may be
full or part time.
3. Applicant must
submit copies of his or her high school transcripts and any ACT or SAT test
results with the application.
4. All applications
must be received by the PGWA
before
February 15 of the year applying.
5. When an applicant
has been named as a recipient of the award, he or she shall, prior to August 1
in the year of the award, provide the PGWA satisfactory evidence of his or her
acceptance or continued enrollment at a college, university, trade or
technical school. Failure to do so will forfeit the scholarship.
6. The award is for
one year and is renewable; however, the applicant must reapply.
The Scholarship Fund will be
administered as follows:
1. The PGWA Board of
Directors has absolute discretion in selecting the recipients of the award and
determining the amount of the scholarship.
2. The PGWA Board of
Directors has the right to make amendments and modifications to the
eligibility and administration of the scholarship fund if deemed necessary.
3. The scholarship
will be paid directly to the college, university, trade, or technical school
and will not be paid to the recipient of the award.
4. Recipients of the
scholarship will be notified by April 1
of the applying year.
5. Scholarships for
more than one individual may be awarded in the same year.
The PGWA Scholarship
Fund was funded this year through some seed money provided by the Pennsylvania
Ground Water Association and from the proceeds from the Scholarship Auction at
the 2006 Winter Conference. The Scholarship Fund will continue to be funded
through the proceeds from the Scholarship Auction that will be held each year.
For this reason, the PGWA Scholarship Program’s success will be directly related
to the success of the Scholarship Auction. Contractors, suppliers, and
manufacturers are encouraged to participate in the Scholarship Auction through
the donation of items, and also by bidding on the donated items.
The PGWA will be
awarding scholarships money to qualified family members of PGWA members for
higher education in the spring of 2008 for the 2008-2009 school year.
Click here to go
to the PGWA scholarship
application that you can print and mail to us.
