Midwest Electric Scholarships

A strong community starts with a strong education.

 

Midwest Electric is proud to offer numerous scholarship opportunities for high school seniors. The 2025 scholarship applications are now available.  The scholarship deadline is February 14, 2025.

The Annual Meeting Scholarship will be awarded on June 5, 2025.

 

Children of Members Scholarships

Midwest Electric will award scholarships to local students based on a competition with other applicants. The top applicant will be eligible to compete for additional scholarships from Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives during the statewide competition in Columbus on April 15, 2025.

(2) $1,500 - First place boy, first place girl

(2) $1,000 - Second place boy, second place girl

(2) $750 - Third place boy, third place girl

Six $500 scholarships

 

Please read the scholarship rules before applying. To qualify, you must:

  • Be the child or legal ward of a Midwest Electric residential member living in a residence receiving electricity from the cooperative. Grandchildren and other relatives of cooperative members are not eligible to apply unless the applicant is the member's legal ward.
  • Be a graduating high school senior. College students and students who are beginning their college careers but are not high school seniors are not eligible.
  • Have a grade point average of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale or equivalent standing on a non-traditional scale. 

2025 Children of Members Scholarship Rules

 

 

Trade School or Technical College Scholarship

Midwest Electric will award this scholarship to one high school senior attending a technical college or accredited trade school after high school.

$1,500

 

Please read the Touchstone Energy Achievement Scholarship rules before applying for the scholarship. To qualify, you must:

  • Be the child or legal ward of a Midwest Electric residential member living in a residence receiving electricity from the cooperative. Grandchildren and other relatives of cooperative members are not eligible unless the applicant is the legal ward of the member.
  • Be a graduating high school senior. College students and students who are beginning their college career but are not high school seniors are not eligible.
  • Have a grade point average of 2.5 or above on a 4.0 scale, or equivalent standing on a non-traditional scale.
  • Be attending an accredited technical college or trade school after high school. A proper vocational or technical school is a post-secondary institution where credits can be transferred to a state-accredited four-year college.

2025 Touchstone Energy Achievement Scholarship Rules

 

 

Annual Meeting Scholarship

The $1,000 Annual Meeting Scholarship is open to any Midwest Electric member who will be a college or trade school student in the fall of 2025.  Members, or children of members, must enter at the 2025 Annual Meeting on June 5, 2025, where the winner will be chosen by random drawing during the business portion of the annual meeting.  The student must be present to win. 

The money will be disbursed in February 2026 following confirmation of college or trade school enrolment and a minimum 2.5 GPA.

Please note: Current scholarship winners of the Children of Members Scholarship, the Touchstone Energy Achievement Scholarship, or past scholarship winners are not eligible to participate.