Highland Telephone To Award Scholarships Again For The 2011-2012 School Year

Sunbright, TN (2012-01-10) Highland Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (HTC) Board of Directors has announced plans to award scholarships to area high school seniors again for the eleventh year in a row. Deadline for entering is March 16, 2012.

Since 2001, Highland Telephone Cooperative has been awarding $1,000 scholarships to area high school seniors, one per Board Director’s electorate. Any high school senior with post-secondary education plans may enter and any post-secondary institution, including technology or trade schools, meets the requirements of the scholarship endowment. A total of 11 scholarships are available to seniors throughout the Highland Telephone territory, including McCreary, Scott, Morgan, Campbell and Anderson counties.

Entrants are judged on a typed, 500 word essay on the top of Technology for Telecommunications. Impartial judges from local schools serve as judges. The essays are judged by a teacher outside the said Director’s county of residence and are rotated throughout and between schools each year. Recipients of the scholarship must present proof of enrollment and incurred fees at the post-secondary institution of their choice in order to receive the funds.

Students may begin submitting essays at any time. Deadline for submittal is Friday, March 16, 2012. Entries must be received in the cooperative’s Sunbright office no later than 5:00 p.m. on the due date.

Relatives of employees and HTC Directors and relatives of HCC employees and HCC Directors are not eligible to enter. For this purpose, the term relative includes spouse, brother, sister, parents, children, stepchildren, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, niece, nephew, grandparents, spouse’s grandparents, aunts, or uncles.

For more information or a copy of official guidelines, contact Diann Stephens, Human Resource Manager at Highland Telephone Cooperative at 423.628.2121.