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Alliant Energy Innovation Scholarship | $1,000 for Skilled Trades and STEM Students in Iowa and Wisconsin
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Alliant Energy encourages young people in its service area to study a skilled trade or a STEM subject. This program is run by Scholarship America, which reviews the applications and pays the awards.
Closed for now. The Alliant Energy Innovation Scholarship runs every year. Bookmark this page; we update it as soon as the next round opens.
Quick summary
- Award: $1,000, one-time
- Number of awards: up to 25
- Location: Iowa and Wisconsin, USA
Who can apply
- Open only to students in the United States: you must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (or meet the residency rule below). Students from other countries are not eligible.
- Living in the Alliant Energy service area, and a customer (or the child of a customer) of Interstate Power and Light or Wisconsin Power and Light
- Aged 24 or under, starting full-time study for the first time
- Studying a skilled trade (for example electrical power distribution, gas utility work or welding) or STEM at a college in Iowa or Wisconsin
- High school GPA between 2.5 and 4.0
How recipients are chosen
Your career plan in a trade or STEM, community and volunteer leadership, GPA and a 350-word essay. Financial need is not considered. Results come in mid-March.
Documents
- A complete transcript of grades showing your name, school, grades, credit hours and terms (grade reports are not accepted)
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