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, four college students were awarded $2,500 scholarships. Graham Lewis of Decatur, a mechanical engineering major at Mississippi State University; Matthew Blaine Speed of Lumberton, an electrical engineering student at Mississippi State University; Dylan Williams of Collinsville, an electrical engineering major at Mississippi State University; and Austin Schruff of Long Beach, an electrical engineering major at Mississippi State University won the scholarships.
Lewis and Speed are working for Cooperative Energy, while Schruff works at Coast Electric. Williams worked with East Mississippi EPA in 2021 and 2022. The students work at the electric cooperatives as part of Mississippi State University’s Co-op engineering program.
