Applications Now Open for the 2018-2019 Melvin Kruger Endowed Scholarships

The $5,000 scholarships are renewable for three years and contribute toward students pursuing careers in roofing or construction.

Applicants to the general Melvin Kruger Endowed Scholarship Program must be:

• Full-time employees of an NRCA contractor or supplier member company or their dependent children* or spouses. Employees must have a minimum of one year of full-time employment with their companies as of the application deadline date, and the company must have been a member in good standing of NRCA for a minimum of one year as of the application deadline date.

*Dependent children are defined as natural or legally adopted children, stepchildren or grandchildren who are declared as tax exemptions by the employee, parent or guardian.

• High school seniors or graduates who plan to enroll or students who are already enrolled in a full-time undergraduate course of study directly related to a career in the roofing industry or building construction at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school for an entire academic year (which includes architecture, business management; civil, mechanical or structural engineering; and construction management majors).

**Two of the scholarships awarded annually are sponsored by Firestone Building Products, Indianapolis. In addition to the general requirements, applicants for these scholarships must:

• Be students who will study and/or have an interest in advancing environmental issues in the construction and roofing industries through new technologies such as recycling, life-cycle analysis, environmental product declarations, reflectivity, vegetative roof systems and photovoltaic systems
• Submit a separate essay

(Industrial/institutional and international members, students who are dependents, spouses of family members of a CEO, President, or owner of an NRCA contractor or supplier member company and relatives of current Alliance board of trustees or officers are not eligible.)

Awards Each recipient will receive a $5,000 award. Awards are renewable for up to three years of undergraduate study or until a bachelor's degree is earned provided recipients renew annually and maintain a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale (or the equivalent).

Application Interested students must complete the 3-page application and mail it with a current, complete official transcript to Scholarship Management Services post-marked no later than Jan. 31. Online transcripts are acceptable if the applicant's name, school name, grades, credit hours earned for each course and term in which each course was taken are printed. Applicants are responsible for gathering and submitting all necessary information. Applications are evaluated on the information supplied; therefore, questions must be answered as completely as possible. Incomplete applications will not be evaluated. All information received will be kept confidential.

Learn more and download an application here.