DRN Scholarship

Dickey Rural Networks (DRN) is pleased to announce it will continue with its scholarship program and participate in the Foundation for Rural Services (FRS) Scholarship.  Again, we are using a combined scholarship application so students can apply for both the DRN scholarship and the FRS scholarship by completing the requirements of one application.  The application is available on our website http://www.drtel.net under “Scholarship Program”.

On the local level, DRN will award $2,500 in scholarship money to five 2014 graduating seniors.  Should a student from our service area be selected to receive one of the 30 national scholarships ($2,000 each) from the Foundation for Rural Services, we will contribute an additional $500 to the scholarship, bringing the total one-time scholarship award to $2,500. 

The Foundation for Rural Service was established in 1994 and, along with the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA), promotes, educates and advocates to the public, rural telecommunications issues in order to sustain and enhance the quality of life within communities throughout rural America.  In keeping with its mission, furthering the education of rural youth is one of the foundation’s primary focuses.  DRN, is a member of NTCA and is proud to support FRS in this worthy endeavor as well as continue our own local scholarship program.

The application is available for download from the DRN web site at http://www.drtel.net and can be completed with the free version of Adobe Reader.  Completed applications should be sent directly to DRN, postmarked no later than February 14, 2014.  Applications postmarked to DRN after this date will NOT be accepted. 

We are very excited to bring this scholarship opportunity to our local school districts!