Fort Community Credit Union (FCCU) has announced that it will be awarding $10,000 in scholarship money for the 2022-2023 school year.
According to information released by the credit union, the scholarships are being offered “to help shoulder the cost of tuition so members can achieve their educational dreams.”
FCCU will award $2,000 to each of five “current high school seniors heading off to a four-year university or a two-year technical or trade school in the fall,” the release stated.
FCCU is a nonprofit financial cooperative with locations in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson, Watertown, and Whitewater. According to its mission statement, as presented within the release, the organization’s role is: “to help our members be in a better financial position than when we met them.”
Applications are due March 1 and can be submitted online via FCCU’s Website.
Students eligible for a scholarship must meet the following criteria:
• Be the primary owner of an active account (savings or checking) at FCCU for a minimum of 3 months. Current FCCU staff, directors and scholarship committee members and their immediate family members are not eligible.
• Be enrolled in high school within Jefferson, Walworth, Rock, Dodge, Dane or Waukesha counties. Students participating in a home-based educational program, privately operated correspondence or virtual school must reside in the qualifying aforementioned counties. Applicants attending these programs must also provide proof of enrollment with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for the 2022-2023 school year, along with ACT or SAT scores, if available, and any records relating to curriculum and academic progress.
• Be eligible for graduation at the end of the 2022-2023 school year.
• Applications must be submitted online by March 1, along with a high school transcript through the student’s first semester senior year and a letter of recommendation from a non-related teacher, coach, school administrator, community member or employer.
Students participate in a graduation ceremony at Fort Atkinson High School. File photo/Kim McDarison.
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