Scholarships

Empowering the next generation. Moreau-Grand Electric Cooperative offers scholarships to support local students in pursuing higher education. Whether you're heading to college or a technical school, our scholarship program helps lighten the financial burden so you can focus on your future. Learn about eligibility, deadlines, and how to apply.

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Elijah Brewer

Moreau-Grand Electric Cooperative Scholarship Program

Moreau-Grand Electric believes that by sponsoring youth programs we are investing in tomorrow's leaders. You can help by encouraging a future leader to apply. To be eligible, the students parent or guardian must have an electric meter with Moreau-Grand Electric. Any meter applies - not just a residence meter. Applications are available at our offices in Timber Lake and Eagle Butte and with school guidance counsellors or click on the downloads below.

Directors' Scholarship

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Our board of directors donate a portion of their compensation to a scholarship fund. This year the scholarship will be awarded to an applicant (whose parent/guardian has a meter with MGE) who plans to pursue any post-secondary degree. The scholarship is in the amount of $2,500. The deadline to apply for this opportunity is February 17, 2025. 

This scholarship will be awarded to the student who best presents himself/herself in a 2-3 minute video explaining the following:

  1. Who you are and where you live
  2. School Achievements
  3. Extra-Curriculars
  4. Community Involvement and ways you give back
  5. College and other future plans
  6. Will you return and help your community?
  7. What role do electric co-ops play in our world?

Feel free to be as creative as you want for your video!

MGE/Basin Scholarship

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Each year Moreau-Grand Electric offers a $1000 scholarship to one area student whose parent/guardian has a meter with us, chosen by our power supplier, Basin Electric Cooperative.  The deadline to apply for this opportunity is February 7, 2025.

Resource Conservation Speech Contest

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Each year the South Dakota Department of Agriculture, Resource Conservation and Forestry Division sponsors a resource conservation-oriented speech contest. Any SD student in grades 9-12 is eligible to enter. This includes public, private, and home-school students. Sponsored by the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives of South Dakota.

  1. First Place: $1,200 Scholarship
  2. Second Place: $800 Scholarship
  3. Third Place: $500 Scholarship

The contest is sponsored by the Touchstone Energy Cooperatives of South Dakota. The deadline to apply for this opportunity is March 1, 2025.

SD Association of Cooperatives Scholarship Program is awarding two $1,000 scholarships to second-year higher-education students. Preference will be given to those who are pursuing a degree relative to the cooperative business and who are members or whose parents/guardians are members of a SDAC member cooperative including Moreau-Grand Electric.

Application

Deadline is December 6, 2024

SDAC 

 

**Applications are also available at our offices in Timber Lake or Eagle Butte, and with school counselors.