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$3,000 grants support 5 students pursuing broadcast engineering careers
By RW Staff
The Society of Broadcast Engineers has announced five scholarship awards for 2025 through its Ennes Educational Foundation Trust.
SBE’s Youth Scholarship is specifically for a graduating high school senior interested in broadcast engineering as a career. Each scholarship awarded this year is for $3,000.
“The SBE has an ongoing focus on education, and the Ennes Scholarships are yet another piece of our overall education efforts,” SBE President Kevin Trueblood said in a release.
The Harold E. Ennes Scholarship, Robert D. Greenberg Scholarship, John H. Battison Founder’s Scholarship and Gino Ricciardelli Scholarship are awarded to individuals interested in continuing or beginning their education in broadcast engineering and technology, SBE said.
This year’s Harold E. Ennes Scholarship recipient is Lee Cusack from Boxford, Mass. Cusack is an audio/radio major at Hofstra University, who hopes to one day be a chief engineer at a radio station in Boston. Cusack first discovered their passion for broadcast engineering when they did some troubleshooting work with Newburyport’s 96.3 WJOP(LP). At Hofstra University, Cusack is the technical director of 88.7 WRHU(FM).
Receiving the Robert D. Greenberg Scholarship is Maximillian Vokoun, CBT, CPT, CBNT, of Gilbert, Ariz. He is a student at Mesa Community College studying electrical engineering. His current roles include being a broadcast engineer at KTVK(TV)/KPHO(TV), and the head of broadcasting at Bamboo Productions, broadcast company that a group of similarly-aged colleagues started to provide freelance work for local companies and high schools. When he is finished with college, he hopes to be able to continue freelancing at sports arenas throughout Arizona.
The John H. Battison SBE Founder’s Scholarship has been awarded to Nayab Warach, an electronics engineering student at Texas A&M University. He will graduate in 2027. He currently serves as general manager of KANM, Texas A&M’s fully student-run internet radio station. Previously, he led a major infrastructure modernization project and now continues to support the technical side of the operations. KANM recently received a construction permit for an LPFM station, which plans to launch by the end of 2025. Warach is particularly interested in providing technical and regulatory services for broadcasters.
The Gino Ricciardelli Scholarship has been awarded to Maddox Murray, from Benton, Ark., who graduated from Benton High School in May 2025 and now attends the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, studying electronics engineering. His interest in electronics began by servicing vintage hi-fi receivers, not long after meeting his current boss, Jay Brentlinger, owner of the Arkansas Rocks Radio Network.
Shawn Ray received the Youth Scholarship. From Cypress, Texas, he is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in video and media design. Shawn has served as a media engineer for Texas Student Television, where he managed the transition to a fully HD production workflow. After graduation, Ray plans to pursue a career in broadcast systems integration, with the goal of designing and building next-generation production facilities for national sports networks.
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