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S&C Electric, John W. Estey Support
IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholars

&C ELECTRIC AND JOHN
W. Estey, a past chief
executive officer of the
company, support the IEEE Power
& Energy Society (PES) Scholarship
Plus Initiative and the scholars
awarded the IEEE PES Scholarship
Plus John W. Estey Outstanding
Scholar Award with their time, talKaleb Spencer.
ent, and treasure. Every year, seven Gabrielle Madden.
engineering students receive the
IEEE PES Scholarship Plus John W.
and Kaleb both have very strong culEstey Outstanding Scholar Award,
tural ties. They have great personalidistributed to the top IEEE PES Scholties and are wildly intelligent. We're
arship Plus Scholars in each of IEEE's
excited to have them here. It's a winsix U.S. Regions and Canada. " Those
win. " Since starting in September
seven per year can be looked at as the
2019, Madden's time at S&C has been
top undergrads in IEEE in North
meaningful. She says, " At S&C, I get to
America. Every year, these seven get a
be a part of the power industry, a part
phone call from us, " says Kevin
of improving our society's foundation,
DeWitt, talent acquisition specialist
by designing products that meet curfor S&C. " We say congratulations. We
rent and future needs of the grid. I'm
tell them who we are and what we
excited to see how society advances
do-and we want to talk about their
five, 10, 20 years down the road
future. John Estey writes them letters. "
because of switching and protection
S&C interviews candidates to find
designs S&C is developing today. "
the perfect matches. Two former
Spencer points to the scholarship
Estey Outstanding Scholars, Gabrielle
as an important part of his ability to
Madden (system design) and Kaleb
complete school with a focus and
Spencer (engineering services), have
determination that launched his
joined S&C as full-time team memcareer. " Receiving this scholarship, for
bers. According to DeWitt, " Gabrielle
me, was truly a blessing, " he says.
" Being able to work less allowed me
to become more active in the IEEE
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opened the door for me to work at
S&C, which has truly been a wonderful experience. " He works on
the PES scholarship program and
considers it not only a great
opportunity for students but an
important recruitment tool. " With
these scholars working here, their
talent should be, and is, enormous, " he explains. " We're hoping, ideally, that not only is John
helping them, but they're helping
the company because we're getting
the top talent in North America here
at S&C. "
Madden's experience confirms the
program's importance in keeping
S&C's name and reputation alive for
the next generation of innovators.
" Prior to winning the Estey scholarship, I did not know S&C existed, " she
admits. " I thought my only options to
work in power were to work in generation, transmission, or distribution.
The Estey scholarship opened my
eyes to opportunities past traditional
power engineering. "
This year's group of Estey Outstanding Scholars recently graduated
or will graduate in 2021 with degrees
in engineering, most specializing in
electrical or computer engineering.
There are five first-time PES scholarship recipients, one two-time recipient, and one three-time recipient.

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