The Electric Cooperatives of Mississippi Foundation was created by the Electric Cooperatives of Mississippi in 2005 in an effort to give back to the communities they serve by providing scholarships for engineering students in their junior or senior year of college.
This year, five college students were awarded $2,000 scholarships. Arden Armstrong of Jackson, an electrical engineering major at Mississippi State University; Chris Pope of Leaksville, an electrical engineering student at Mississippi State University; Shay Ramsey of Biloxi, a mechanical engineering major at Mississippi State University; Garrett Minchew of Laurel, a mechanical engineering major at Mississippi State University; and John Alliston of Gulfport, an electrical engineering major at Mississippi State University won the scholarships. Armstrong, Pope, Ramsay, and Minchew are working for Cooperative Energy, while Alliston works at Coast Electric. The students work at the electric cooperatives as part of Mississippi State University’s Co-op engineering program.
