MCREA's 2025 Lineworker Scholarship Application
Application Deadline: Friday, April 18, 2025
Career
An electrical lineworker performs many different tasks, including climbing poles or operating aerial lift devices to work on overhead lines 25 to 200 feet above the ground, erecting substations, or digging trenches to string underground electric cable. Lineworkers work outside in all kinds of weather to keep our communities running. Occasionally, severe weather or accidents can knock out power to a community and lineworkers may be needed at any hour of the day or night to restore power. Though challenging, linework is a very rewarding career!
Lineworkers are the backbone of the electric utility industry, making it a viable career across the country.
Scholarship
The $5,000 Morgan County REA Lineworker Scholarship is awarded to a qualified applicant selected by MCREA’s lineworker scholarship selection committee.
To be eligible for the scholarship, applicant must reside within the outer boundaries of MCREA’s service territory, and be enrolled in or currently attending an approved lineworker training program as a full-time student. Assuming applicant has met the age requirements for enrollment in a lineworker training program, there are no age restrictions to apply for MCREA’s Lineworker Scholarship.
Applicants must complete and submit the MCREA Lineworker Scholarship application. Based on application, applicant may be selected to participate in an interview with MCREA’s lineworker scholarship committee.
Scholarship money is dispersed by semester and recipients must maintain a 3.0 GPA in order to keep the scholarship. Scholarship recipients are in no way guaranteed or required to be employed at Morgan County REA upon completion of training.