Newswise — After receiving over 50 applications for the 2011 JETS/Power Engineering Next Generation Scholarship, two students were selected as the winners, each receiving a $7,000 scholarship toward their college education. The scholarship was established in 2006 by JETS and Power Engineering magazine to promote the power generation industry to young people and help them pursue an engineering major and industry-related career.
The 2011 winning students were: Ayesha Bose of Francis Parker School in San Diego, CA and Patrick Shower of Mason County High School in Maysville, KY.
The scholarship was open to all currently enrolled high school seniors during the 2010-2011 school year. The application process was competitive and award criteria were based on student academics and a 750-word essay. In the essay, applicants addressed the following issue: What attracts you to a possible career in the electric power industry? Cite three ways a power engineering education could make a difference in your community. The winning essays may be read online at www.jets.org/programs/scholarship.
"Our mission at JETS is to expose as many of today's students as possible to the various engineering careers available to them, to show them how engineering impacts everyday life and to demonstrate in very concrete ways that engineers solve social problems as well as technological ones," said Linda Snow-Solum, Sr. Director, Rockwell Collins.
About JETSJETS is a national non-profit education organization dedicated to promoting engineering and helping students discover their potential for the profession.
A solid framework of high school educators, corporations, professional organizations and universities incorporate JETS pre-college engineering programs in local communities throughout the United States. JETS programs touch more than 40,000 students and 10,000 educators from 6,000 high schools across the country. JETS participants are a diverse group – more than 50 percent are from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in engineering and technology fields, including one-third who are female.
About Power Engineering magazine
Power Engineering, publishing continuously since 1896, is a monthly engineering and applications magazine that serves the North American power generation industry including electric utilities, industrial power plants, independent power producers, co-generators and the engineering design and construction firms serving this industry.
Recognizing the critically important need to develop the next generation of power industry workforce, Power Engineering magazine is committed to taking a leadership role in support of action-oriented initiatives to promote workforce development. Power Engineering magazine is proud to be flagship media sponsor for the Next Generation Scholarship Fund administered by JETS. For more information visit www.power-eng.com.
For more information, please visit, www.JETS.org.
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