Youth Programs

Scholarships

In 2022, Bartholomew County REMC awarded three scholarships that are administered through the Heritage Fund. The recipient for the traditional BCREMC scholarship of $1,500 was Eliza Whiteside, a 2022 graduate of Columbus East High School. Her intended major is Business Administration at Indiana University.

BCREMC’s Scholarship recipient, Eliza Whiteside.

The second recipient, a non-traditional student going back to school, was Kathleen Whipker, currently pursuing a major in American Sign Language Interpretation at IUPUI.

The recipient of the $5,000 BCREMC Alex Barkes Memorial Scholarship was Karissa Miller, also a Columbus East High School graduate. She is pursuing a degree at Indiana University in Sports Management & Marketing.

BCREMC's Alex Barkes Memorial Scholarship recipient, Karissa Miller.

Youth Tour to Washington D C

Columbus East High School students, Owen Hebert and Mason Whipker represented Bartholomew County REMC on the 2022 Indiana Electric Cooperative Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., in June. The Indiana delegation of 69 students representing 24 Indiana electric cooperatives joined more than 1,800 other students from 42 other states on the Youth Tour.

Students visited the Flight 93 and Pentagon 9/11 memorials, Gettysburg National Military Park, Arlington National Cemetery, the Smithsonian museums, the National Mall memorials, the National Museum of the Marine Corps and more.

Delegates also spent a day on Capitol Hill where they met with members of Indiana’s congressional delegation.

BCREMC Youth Tour participants were, from left, Owen Hebert and Mason Whipker.

Owen (far right) tours the Washington D.C. sites with the Indiana delegation.