HIGHLAND TELEPHONE  TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS AGAIN FOR THE 2008-2009 SCHOOL YEAR!!!

The Highland Telephone Cooperative, Inc., (HTC) Board of Directors is proud to announce its plans to award scholarships to area high-school seniors again for the eighth year in a row. 

HTC initiated a scholarship program in 2001 awarding a $1,000 scholarship per Board Director to a high-school senior in that Director’s electorate.  Any high-school senior with post-secondary education plans may enter and any post-secondary institution meets the requirements of the scholarship endowment.  (Relatives of Highland Telephone Cooperative employees and Highland Telephone Cooperative Directors or relatives of Highland Communications Corporation employees and Highland Communications Corporation Directors are not eligible to enter.)  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 topic 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.  There were 10 scholarships awarded last 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.