Ennes Scholarships

Scholarship Sponsored by Ennes Educational Foundation Trust

Overview
Each year the Ennes Educational Foundation Trust provides scholarships to individuals pursuing careers in the technical side of broadcasting. Awards may be applied toward tuition, room and board, textbooks at post-secondary institutions, or other technical training programs that the Scholarship Committee approves. While SBE membership is given preference, qualified applicants who are not members — including graduating high school seniors — are welcome to apply.

Scholarships offered (examples)
- John H. Battison SBE Founder’s Scholarship (open to all)
- Harold E. Ennes Scholarship (open to all)
- Robert D. Greenberg Scholarship (open to all)
- Gino Ricciardelli Scholarship (open to all)
- Youth Scholarship (reserved for graduating high school seniors)

Eligibility
- Ennes and Greenberg Scholarships: Applicants should demonstrate a career interest in the technical aspects of broadcasting. These awards typically favor candidates with some broadcast engineering work experience who seek additional education to advance their careers. Preference is given to those employed at least part-time in broadcast engineering and to SBE members.
- Youth Scholarship: Intended for students in their senior year of high school who expect to graduate by spring 2025 and plan to enroll at a technical school, college, or university in the fall of 2025. Candidates must show a strong interest in pursuing studies that lead to a career in broadcast engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
- John H. Battison Founder’s and Gino Ricciardelli Scholarships: Available to either graduating high school seniors or individuals already working in broadcast engineering; meeting either of these criteria makes a candidate eligible.

Application, Awards, and Recipient Responsibilities
- Applicants must complete and submit the required application to be considered.
- For 2026, the Trust anticipates awarding up to five scholarships of $3,000 each, subject to available funding. An individual may receive only one scholarship per year.
- The Award Term runs July 1 through June 30. At the conclusion of that term, recipients are expected to submit a 400–500 word technical paper on a broadcast-engineering topic of their choice for possible inclusion in an SBE publication.

Deadlines and Notification
- Scholarship applications must be submitted annually by July 1.
- Recipients will be announced by August 1, and grants will be available for the upcoming fall semester of the same year.

Donations
- Contributions to the scholarship fund may be mailed to the SBE National Office. Donors should specify which named scholarship they want their gift to support, or indicate that the donation should go to the general scholarship fund.