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North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation Offers Basketball Camp Scholarships to Local Youth

Posted on: Monday, 16 March 2009, 15:47 CDT

Application Deadline Approaching Quickly

RALEIGH, N.C., March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation will send one middle-school aged boy and one middle-school aged girl to basketball camp this summer on full scholarships. This year, applications for scholarships offered to the Roy Williams Basketball Camp for male students and to the N.C. State Women's Basketball Camp for female students must be submitted or postmarked by March 27.

"This is a wonderful opportunity for NCEMC to send deserving students to experience life on a college campus and receive instruction from some of the ACC's finest basketball players and coaching staffs," said Morgan Lashley, communications specialist, North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives. "It is our hope that the lessons students learn on the court at camp will be useful in other areas of campers' lives."

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible and will be judged based on their academic achievements, extracurricular activities, an essay that must accompany the application and a short-answer extra credit question. Winners will be announced by May 1.

Both camps are overnight and will be held June 21-25. Winners of the Touchstone Energy Sports Camp scholarships must have permission from a parent or guardian to attend either camp and must provide their own transportation to and from Raleigh or Chapel Hill.

Rising sixth through eighth grade students interested in the scholarship can contact Morgan Lashley at (919) 875-3214 or by e-mail at morgan.lashley@ncemcs.com. Students may receive more information or download an application at www.ncelectriccooperatives.com.

Awarding Touchstone Energy Sports Camps scholarships is just one example of NCEMC's commitment to local communities.

North Carolina's Touchstone Energy cooperatives serve more than 2.5 million people in 93 of the state's 100 counties.

SOURCE North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation

Source: PR Newswire

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