Energize Your Education College Scholarship

At ElectricityPlans.com, we help you Power Your Life. Education is an important part of life. It gives us knowledge of the world around us. It helps us develop our life’s perspective. And, it helps build future success. That’s why ElectricityPlans.com offers the Energize Your Education Scholarship.

This scholarship rewards a deserving high school senior for using their energy to make a positive difference in the lives of others.

Winner of the 2026 Energize Your Education Scholarship

This year’s winner of the Energize Your Education Scholarship is Arianna Chavez of Pearland, TX, who focused her volunteer efforts on recycling programs in her community and STEM programs for lower-income neighborhoods. Arianna is a graduate of Glenda Dawson High School in Pearland, and will attend the University of Texas at Austin in the fall.

Arianna’s winning essay is below.

My first exposure to service was when I was six years old and attending a free daycare program over the summer. Volunteers from the community, including teachers, stay-at-home parents, and high school students, watched me for seven days a week while my single mother worked long hours to support us both. Not only was this opportunity a godsend for my mother, but it also shaped my appreciation of the volunteers’ commitment to the program and my wellbeing. As soon as my mother and I escaped the poverty cycle years later, I knew I wanted to bring that same relief and advantage to communities similar to my own through service.

Beginning my freshman year, I began working with Keep Pearland Beautiful in lower-income Pearland areas to clean parks, waterways, and streets, allowing for a cleaner environment for young students. To further this initiative, I also participated in establishing recycling programs at other schools to help the environment without placing a financial burden on schools wanting to recycle.

After joining the Keep Pearland Beautiful Youth Environmental Council as their Activities Chair my senior year, I advocated for expanding these opportunities to better the environment at schools without recycling programs, successfully implemented recycling bins and recycled art projects as one of my main initiatives. My experience with Keep Pearland Beautiful was a great introduction the rewards that providing community service can offer to not only students, but to those who choose to use their privilege to help others.

Aside from serving Pearland youth through environmental education, I explored what I could do to help lower-income communities in a more direct manner. Through my service last year, I was able to meet the director of a local nonprofit called AD-Technical, apply for an unpaid intern position in his organization, and provide more equitable access to technology and education to lower-income areas of Houston. As director of their marketing team, we outreached to the mayor’s office, other Houston nonprofits, and even community centers to promote free STEM courses and even distribute laptops at churches and schools across the city. Providing these students with resources that I’d dreamed of as a child was the most rewarding volunteer experience of my life.

Throughout my high school career, I’ve maintained the goal of serving my community in the areas I know lack the most. The impact I’ve been able to have on Pearland and Houston areas have justified the struggles of my childhood and brought meaning to my education. As a student, I hope to not only involve myself in on-campus service opportunities but also carry my passion for helping others into my future careers.

The “Energize Your Education” College Scholarship 2027

Here at ElectricityPlans.com we make a positive difference for our customers’ lives by helping them save money on their electricity bill.

Are you a high school senior in Texas attending college in the fall of 2027 or spring of 2028? Then we want to know what positive difference you make in your community!

The Energize Your Education Scholarship rewards your positive energy. Let us know how you use your positive energy in the community to make a difference in the lives of others. You could win a $500 scholarship towards your college education.

Scholarship Requirements

High school senior, planning to attend an accredited two- or four-year college degree program in fall 2027 or spring 2028
Minimum of a 3.2 GPA on a 4.0 scale
Resident of Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania or Connecticut

Application Process

Complete the online application, including your essay answering this question:

Electricity powers your life. That’s one kind of energy, but not the only kind. How do you bring your positive energy into the community to make a difference in the lives of others?

Scholarship Application Deadline

2027 Scholarship applications: February 2 – May 1 2027

Scholarship Notification Date

Scholarship winner will be notified by May 15, 2027

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