2025 College Scholarships

The deadline for the 2025 Flint Energies Foundation College Scholarships has passed. Applicants will be notified of the decision in late April.

Flint Energies and the Flint Energies Foundation provide college scholarships to high school graduates and continuing education adults who are pursuing their four-year undergraduate degree at a college/university.

Scholarships are non-renewable and previous recipients are not eligible to win again.

Flint Energies Foundation scholarships include the following:
-Flint Energies Foundation General Scholarship ($2,500)
-Flint Energies Foundation FFA/4-H Scholarship ($2,500)
-Flint Energies Foundation EMPOWER Youth Leadership Scholarship ($2,500)

Applicants may only receive ONE scholarship from Flint Energies/Flint Energies Foundation.
 

Flint Energies Foundation General College Scholarship

Applications due: March 14, 2025

Flint Energies offers scholarships worth $2,500 each to students pursuing a degree at a four-year college or university. Up to 40 scholarships will be awarded, based on available funds, to students whose primary residence is within one of these 17 counties: Bibb, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Dooly, Harris, Houston, Macon, Marion, Monroe, Muscogee, Peach, Schley, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, Twiggs and Upson. High school seniors and currently enrolled college students are encouraged to apply.

2025 General Foundation Scholarship recipients
 

Flint Energies Foundation FFA/4-H College Scholarship

Applications due: March 14, 2025

Flint Energies offers scholarships worth $2,500 each to students pursuing a degree at a four-year college or university. Up to 15 FFA/4-H scholarships will be awarded, based on available funds, to students whose primary residence is within one of these 17 counties: Bibb, Chattahoochee, Crawford, Dooly, Harris, Houston, Macon, Marion, Monroe, Muscogee, Peach, Schley, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, Twiggs and Upson. The applicant must also have been actively involved in a local FFA chapter or 4-H program within Flint’s service territory. High school seniors and currently enrolled college students are encouraged to apply.

Flint Energies Foundation EMPOWER Youth Leadership College Scholarship

Applications due: March 14, 2025

Flint Energies offers scholarships worth $2,500 each to students who successfully completed the EMPOWER Youth Leadership Program. Applicants must be pursuing a degree at a four-year college or university. Two scholarships will be awarded, based on available funds. Counties involved in the program include: Crawford, Macon, Marion, Peach, Talbot, Taylor and Schley.

Walter Harrison Scholarship

Deadline: February 3, 2025

Flint Energies enters five applications from our service area into a pool of statewide entries each year. Seventeen $1,000 scholarships were awarded in 2024 to students in EMC households. High school seniors and undergraduate students attending any vocational school or two- or four-year accredited college or university in Georgia are eligible to apply.
 


17 Walter Harrison Scholarship Winners Announced

Congratulations to the 17 students selected to receive the 2025 Walter Harrison Scholarship.

  • Grayson Ludington of Fairmount – Amicalola EMC 

  • Nneka Obialor of Powder Springs – Cobb EMC

  • Dania Gonzalez of Woodstock – Cobb EMC

  • Taylor Furman of Adel – Colquitt EMC

  • Alexis Wingenbach of Palmetto – Coweta-Fayette EMC

  • Clayton Hood of Midville – Excelsior EMC

  • James Oliver of Perry – Flint Energies

  • Daniel Chun of Perry – Flint Energies

  • Kennedi Washington of Fairburn – GreyStone Power

  • Abbie Brown – Irwin EMC

  • Alvaro Arcila of Duluth – Jackson EMC

  • Kennedy Henderson of Murrayville – Jackson EMC

  • Iyana Nobles of Brunswick – Okefenoke REMC

  • Laura Gayle Dailey of Millen – Planters EMC

  • Ethan Sharp of McDonough – Snapping Shoals EMC

  • Carter McDaniel of Barnesville – Southern Rivers Energy

  • Deeya Mepani of Bogart – Walton EMC


With the addition of the 17 scholarships in 2025, $298,500 has been awarded to 309 students in EMC households since the program began in 1987. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of a scored essay, academic achievement and financial need. Georgia’s EMCs started the scholarship program to honor the late Walter Harrison. Harrison was known in Georgia and across the nation as “Mr. Rural Electrification” for his pioneering efforts in the electrical cooperative industry and for his lifelong dedication to improving life in rural areas.

 

For more information, contact Blair Brown at bbrown@flintemc.com or


Flint Energies
P.O. Box 7089
Warner Robins, GA 31095
Telephone: 800-342-3616, ext. 5547