Flint Hills Resources offers scholarships to high schoolers pursuing STEM careers
Since 2012, Discovery Scholarships have provided more than $200,000 to students in Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska
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From Staff Reports
PELHAM — Flint Hills Resources has announced the availability of its Discovery Scholarship at schools near its Camilla ethanol plant.
Discovery Scholarships are intended to help support the educational goals of graduating high school seniors from communities where the company operates. Since 2012, the company has awarded more than $200,000 in scholarships to students in Georgia, Iowa and Nebraska.
The scholarship program awards one-time, $1,500 scholarships to graduating seniors who intend to pursue careers in STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – disciplines or agriculture. The scholarships can be used to cover tuition costs at the college, university, technical college or trade school of the student’s choice.
Officials with the company said the program is part of Flint Hills Resources’ commitment to support educational opportunities in communities where the company operates.
“A quality education is the foundation of a successful career,” Darrell Birck, vice president of operations at Flint Hills Resources, said. “The Discovery Scholarship program recognizes outstanding, hardworking students interested in STEM and agricultural careers and helps them cover some of the costs associated with the next steps in their professional development.”
Officials said eligible candidates should demonstrate “academic achievement, leadership and entrepreneurial excellence.” The scholarships are available at Pelham High School and Mitchell County High School, and more information and applications are available for students from those school’s guidance counselors.
Flint Hills Resources is a refining, chemicals and biofuels company with operations primarily in the Midwest and Texas. Its subsidiaries produce and market gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt, ethanol, biodiesel, olefins, polymers and intermediate chemicals as well as base oils, corn oil and dried distillers grain.
The company operates ethanol plants in Iowa, Nebraska and Camilla. The plants have a combined annual capacity of 850 million gallons of ethanol. The company also owns, through a joint venture, a 50 million-gallon biodiesel plant in Nebraska.
The business operates refineries in Minnesota and Texas, with a combined crude oil processing capacity of more than 600,000 barrels per day. The petrochemical sector includes production facilities in Illinois and Texas, and the asphalt sector produces and markets product in the Midwest. A subsidiary owns an interest in a lubricants base oil facility in Louisiana.
The company is based in Wichita, Kan., and employs more than 4,000 people.
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