The student must be accepted into a Bachelor’s Program for Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing Engineering, or other related Engineering Degrees at an accredited University.
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Brookville Equipment Corporation
BROOKVILLE, Pa. (EYT) – For the 2023-24 school year, Brookville Equipment offered a scholarship to encourage students of Brookville Area High School to take an interest in Engineering.
The student must be accepted into a Bachelor’s Program for Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing Engineering, or other related Engineering Degrees at an accredited University.
The Brookville Equipment Corporation Scholarship Fund awarded one student at Brookville Area High School with a scholarship of $5,000. The student will receive $2,500 for each semester. The student must maintain a 3.0 GPA to receive the winter payment. The awardee of this scholarship may be considered for an annual scholarship if they remain enrolled in one of the applicable Engineering programs, maintain a GPA of 3.0, and participate in a paid summer internship with Brookville Equipment each summer between academic years.
Brady Means was selected as the scholarship recipient for the 2023-24 school year.
Brady excelled during his time at Brookville High School, currently holding a 4.0 GPA and being involved in Cross Country, Indoor Track & Field, and Outdoor Track & Field. He is attending Penn State DuBois this fall for their 2+2 Engineering program to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, with plans of moving to Penn State Behrend to complete his Engineering degree. Brady was highlighted as a Brookville Equipment Corporation Student of the Month in February of 2023.
Check out his full article from last year: Student of the Month
About Brookville Equipment Corporation
Headquartered in Brookville, Pa., in the scenic foothills of the Allegheny forests. Brookville Equipment Corporation is a world-class American manufacturer of innovative powered transportation solutions for the mining/tunneling, rail freight, and passenger transportation industries. BROOKVILLE contributed to the first American manufactured streetcars in the 1950s, and in 2001, has modernized, manufactured, and remanufactured PCC and heritage streetcars and trolleys for the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA), the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
Building upon the company’s 100+ years of rail-mounted vehicle manufacturing experience and nearly two decades of streetcar manufacturing, BROOKVILLE introduced the innovative Liberty Streetcar design in 2012, with the pilot order delivered to Dallas, Texas, in 2015. Later in 2015, the Liberty Streetcar onboard energy storage system (OESS) was honored with the LRTA’s Global Light Rail Award for “Technical Innovation of the Year.” Additional Liberty Streetcars are currently in operation for QLINE Detroit, Oklahoma City Streetcar, and The Hop in Milwaukee. The Liberty NXT design is currently on order for Valley Metro’s Tempe Streetcar, Sound Transit’s Line T, and Portland Streetcar.
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