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Students Receive 2020 Youth Leadership Scholarships

Each year, North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives awards three scholarships to participants from the previous summer’s NC Youth Tour to Washington, D.C., sponsored by the state’s electric cooperatives. This year’s scholarship recipients are:

Lizzie Phipps

Lizzie Phipps (South River EMC) received the Katie Bunch Memorial Scholarship

Lizzie Phipps

Julia McClain (EnergyUnited) received the Gwyn B. Price Memorial Scholarship

Lizzie Phipps

Karis Dean (Piedmont Electric) received the Youth Leadership Council Scholarship

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