Apply for the 2025 Auxiliary Scholarship

The KEC Auxiliary encourages educational advancement by awarding high education scholarships to eligible students. Auxiliary’s purpose is to promote the rural electric cooperatives through participation in local community activities, as well as on a statewide basis. Auxiliary’s primary focus is to educate and encourage youth participation in the selection process for the youth programs sponsored by the local cooperatives and coordinated by the Kansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., which are held in Washington, D.C., and Steamboat Springs, Colorado, each year.

One or more students are awarded $1,000 each year. 

Apply online using the application linked above. Note the application requires a 3-5 minute video showcasing community and/or co-op involvement. If you're not sure what to talk about in your video, consider the Seven Cooperative Principles and how the KEC youth programs impacted you. Apply by Jan. 17, 2025. 

Eligibility Requirements

  • Be a student winner sponsored by a Kansas electric cooperative to either the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour or the Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp
  • Have completed at least your freshman year with a GPA of 2.5 or higher at an accredited university, college, vo-tech, or trade school as a full-time student (transcripts will need to be included with the application)
  • Be enrolled as a full-time student at an accredited university, college, vo-tech, or trade school by the application deadline 11:59 p.m. of Jan. 17, 2025.
  • Be working on completing your first undergraduate degree

Selection Criteria

  • Cumulative GPA
  • Internships & work experience
  • Civic, volunteer, and political activities
  • Leadership roles pursued and/or held
  • Involvement in cooperative-based programs and activities

Winners will be notified by the Auxiliary Chairperson and announced at the KEC Winter Conference in February. Funds will be distributed directly to the educational organization.

Auxiliary Scholarship Frequently Asked Questions

The KEC Auxiliary encourages educational advancement by awarding high education
scholarships to eligible students. Auxiliary’s purpose is to promote the rural electric
cooperatives through participation in local community activities, as well as on a statewide
basis. Auxiliary’s primary focus is to educate and encourage youth participation in the
selection process for the youth programs sponsored by the local cooperatives and
coordinated by the Kansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., which are held in Washington,
D.C., and Steamboat Springs, Colorado, each year.

One or more $1,000 scholarships will be awarded.

Online application only to include:

  • A 3-5 minute YouTube video, uploaded to youtube.com, showcasing community/co-op
  • involvement
    • Video could connect to the 7 Cooperative Principles?
    • Video could be based on how the KEC youth program impacted the student/lessons learned (these videos could then be used for promotional purposes for the youth programs)

Not quite yet! You will need to have completed at least one semester at an accredited university, college, vo-tech, or trade school as a full-time student. We have found that there are many scholarship opportunities for graduates immediately after high school, but these opportunities tend to taper off in subsequent years. Our goal is to help alleviate some of the financial burden incurred after your first year as a student.

Because requirements can vary from school to school, our scholarship committee defers to whatever your university, college, vo-tech, or trade school considers full-time. Please check your policies before applying.

Absolutely! As long as you meet our eligibility requirements listed above you are welcome to apply multiple times.

You sure are! And congrats! As long as you meet our eligibility requirements listed above you are welcome to re-apply — and win! — multiple times.

Yes. As long as you are not pursuing an additional Bachelor’s (or any “four-year”) Degree or a graduate degree, you are eligible.

Each applicant is required to create and submit a video. The following are examples on which your video could focus:

  • How the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour, the Youth Leadership Council, or Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp impacted me
  • How I applied lessons I learned through the electric cooperative youth program later in life
  • My impression of electric co-ops
  • How I have given back to my local, sponsoring cooperative, statewide electric co-op organization (KEC), and/or the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
  • How what I’m doing right now, either in college or in my extracurricular activities, ties in with the 7 Cooperative Principles

For inspiration, you are encouraged to visit Youtube.com and search “Glenn English Scholarship.” Here you will find dozens of submissions and winners from previous years.

Please note that by submitting an application video, you are granting rights for KEC and its member-cooperatives to use all or parts of your video.

The KEC Auxiliary Scholarship selection committee will be comprised of the Auxiliary chairperson, Auxiliary liaison and other KEC staff members.

If you have any questions or technical difficulties with the webform, please contact Carol Dorr, cdorr@kec.org or 785-478-4554.

The winner of the scholarship will be announced by Jan. 30, 2025. All applicants will receive an email.