WPPA 2024 Spring Scholarship - Now Accepting Applications
It is time for Washington Public Ports to begin collecting applications for our $1,500 Spring Scholarship. Please find the attached WPPA scholarship application. As a reminder, for 2024 WPPA is going to return to a previous practice of awarding two educational scholarships. Each respective scholarship is described below.
In the Spring, we will award a $1,500 “WPPA Spring Scholarship” that is primarily geared toward high school or high-school equivalent students pursuing post-secondary education in a port-related industry or field of study. That student must be a relation of a port commissioner or port employee to be eligible. As it deliberates, our Executive Committee will take a broad view of what constitutes “port-related industry or field of study,” as we all know ports work in myriad ways! The focus of the decision will be the quality of the program and the qualifications of the applicant.
Our second scholarship, the “WPPA Winter Scholarship,” will be focused on continuing education being pursued by a port employee that is intended to enhance their ability to provide direct benefit to the people of their port districts. This scholarship was last awarded in 2014, and we are happy to bring it back this year as many members have been suggesting. Details for this scholarship will be sent out in the fall and awarded at our Annual Meeting.
For the WPPA Spring Scholarship, the Association will accept applications between now and March 29, 2024. Only complete scholarship application packets will be considered for the award and must be sent electronically to mlill@washingtonports.org or received into the WPPA office no later than 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2024. Full instructions are located on the application.
The WPPA Executive Committee will determine the winner, and announcement of the 2024 Spring Scholarship recipient will be made during the Awards Breakfast at the 2024 WPPA Spring Meeting in Stevenson, WA.
Please contact the WPPA office if you have any questions.