Falls Church, Va. — This yr, the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors—Nationwide Affiliation (PHCC) Instructional Basis scholarship program plans to award 56 scholarships totaling over $140,000. Awards can be found to plumbing and HVACR apprentices working for PHCC—Nationwide Affiliation members, commerce college or neighborhood school college students taking plumbing or HVAC courses and school college students pursuing majors immediately associated to the plumbing-heating-cooling trade.
The Basis’s scholarship program has been quickly rising and to higher deal with that elevated demand, a brand new on-line software system has been constructed. The brand new system will make making use of simpler for apprentices and college students and streamline the analysis course of. The adaptive software type will current solely the required questions primarily based on the solutions supplied by the applicant, that means fewer inquiries to reply. The platform additionally will make it simpler for candidates to gather letters of advice from their supervisors and PHCC enterprise homeowners.
All candidates are required to reply a couple of questions on their curiosity within the trades and profession plans, plus present a letter of advice. Apprentices can get that advice from their contractor employer, whereas commerce college or school college students can have an teacher or steering counselor write their advice. Awards vary from $1,500 to $10,000; with essentially the most awards set at $3,000 every. The deadline for all submission supplies is Might 1st and the appliance might be discovered at https://phccfoundation.org/scholarships.
“The brand new platform will make it simpler for people to entry these awards and get their begin within the plumbing-heating-cooling trade,” mentioned John Zink, Basis VP of Improvement and Communications. “Whether or not the apprentice pays for their very own coaching or their employer does, we nonetheless need these apprentices to use. Union apprentices are welcome to use as properly.” Apprentice candidates have to be working for a contractor member of the PHCC—Nationwide Affiliation.
The scholarships are funded by contractor donations to the PHCC Instructional Basis and by these company sponsors: A. O. Smith, Bradford White Company, Delta Faucet Firm, InSinkErator, RIDGID, Scorpion House Providers Advertising, State Water Heaters, SupplyHouse.com and Viega.