Scholarship to Support Women in Oil and Gas Training/Careers
Scholarship to Support Women in Oil and Gas Training/Careers
Scholarship to Support Women in Oil and Gas Training/Careers
Michelle Richards-Babb |
Anne Barth, executive director of TechConnect West Virginia, announced the creation and initiation of the Mary Anne Ketelsen STEM Scholarship Program to benefit Mountain State women seeking to further their education for careers in the oil and gas industry. Applications for scholarship funds are now being accepted, with a deadline of March 1, 2021. “Mary Anne Ketelsen, a keynote speaker at one of our Women in Technology conferences and successful West Virginia entrepreneur and philanthropist, generously donated funds to TechConnect West Virginia to establish a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) scholarship program to support women in the oil and natural gas industry, said Barth. “Mary Anne also sought to honor the memory of her mother, Mary “Mickey” Welch, a philanthropist and oil and gas industry pioneer.”
Those eligible to receive a scholarship must be: graduating high school seniors with at least a 3.0 grade point average; current higher education students in either community/technical colleges or four-year institutions with at least a 3.0 grade point average; working adult professionals interested in advancing their careers; West Virginia resident students attending institutions of higher education in West Virginia or located in an adjoining state (KY, MD, OH, PA or VA); and those students willing to commit to work in West Virginia for the first two years of their careers. Read more
