Scholarship application deadline: March 31, 2025.
Applications for Valley REC's Brighter Future Scholarship Program are now available. The co-op will award up to 35 $1,000 scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year to eligible students who apply. Previous Brighter Future scholarship recipients are not eligible. Applications and all required information must be mailed or e-mailed to Valley Rural Electric Cooperative or delivered in person to one of our offices by March 31, 2025 (postmarked by that date if mailed or time-stamped by that date if e-mailed).
To be eligible for a scholarship, the applicant must be:
- a dependent of an active Valley REC member who is the parent or guardian of the applicant,
- a high school senior (public, private, charter, cyber, or home-school) planning to enroll full-time at an accredited post-secondary institution or trade/technical school for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Previous Brighter Future scholarship recipients are not eligible.
The money to fund this initiative comes from unclaimed capital credits refunds that previously had to be turned over to the state treasury. Thanks to the efforts of the cooperative's political advocates, those funds can now be kept in our local communities.
For more information and applications, visit the Scholarships page.
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