The Society of Broadcast Engineers announced that the Ennes Educational Foundation Trust has awarded five scholarships for 2024.
According to the SBE, 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. The SBE’s Youth Scholarship is specifically for a graduating high school senior interested in pursing broadcast engineering as a career.
Each scholarship awarded this year is for $3,000. The recipients were chosen from applications received by July 1, 2024, from the previous 12 months.
In the press release announcing the scholarships, SBE President Ted Hand said, “Education is one of the pillars of the SBE, and the Ennes Scholarships are just once part of our overall education efforts. The SBE encourages young people to pursue careers in broadcast and media technology, and we look forward to seeing the great progress of these five budding engineers as they expand their education and develop their careers.”
The Harold E. Ennes Scholarship recipient is Becky Meiers, CRO, from Sitka, Alaska. Meiers career includes working at stations WVFS, KBOO, KPAM, KFFP and KCAW. The SBE said she plans to apply the scholarship to earn a technologist certification through NPR Distribution and to attend the APRE Conference and 2025 NAB Show. Meiers is currently building translators running on renewable energy in southeast Alaska.
Receiving the Robert D. Greenberg Scholarship is Krystal Holland, CBT, from New York City. Holland serves as a technical director at Spectrum News NY1 and is working on her Master’s in Information Technology at Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science, specializing in networking administration.
The John H. Battison SBE Founder’s Scholarship has been awarded to Nicholas Reed, a senior at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, studying journalism and electronic media. The SBE said Reed works at Family Radio as an IT analyst, assisting with AoIP and automation software. He plans to pursue a video or radio engineer role when he graduates in May 2025.
The Gino Ricciardelli Scholarship has been awarded to Juan Pinilla, who moved from Colombia to the Unites States at age 15. Pinilla is pursuing a degree in television production at The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University and works at the student-run radio station, WRHU, and Hofstra’s TV streaming network.
Megan Athey received this year’s Youth Scholarship. Athey attends Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where she is a film studies major. The SBE said her concentration is on learning about the intricacies of film and broadcasting technology.
