Multiple college students benefiting from 'Megawatt' scholarship awards through Whirlpool Corporation and One Energy this fall | Whirlpool Corporation
September 19, 2022 at 05:56 pm IST
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Each year, Whirlpool Corporation awards scholarships to students entering college in coordination with One Energy at its North American plants that have wind turbines on site.
One of those plants in Greenville, Ohio chose from over 60 applicants and awarded these "Megawatt Scholarships" as they're called, to three winners (one winner per each turbine at the plant site). The three winners, Carson Taylor, Gabrielle Heckman, and Kevin Partington, were awarded $5,000 each. Both Taylor and Heckman plan to attend Ohio State University to pursue careers in the STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Partington will attend Purdue University for mechanical engineering in the fall.
Whirlpool Corp.'s Findlay, Ohio plant gave awards to Jack Metz, who plans on attending Ohio State to pursue a degree in Computer Science and Finance; and Austin Hanni-Wells, who will be attending Ohio Northern University to pursue a degree in Statistics with a concentration in Actuarial Science. All winners have their names permanently affixed to turbines at each respective plant.
Whirlpool Corporation is the world leader of the manufacturing and the marketing of large domestic equipments. The group's products are marketed mainly under the Whirlpool, Maytag, JennAir, KitchenAid, InSinkErator, Yummly, Amana, Bauknecht, Indesit, Hotpoint, Ignis Consul, Brastemp and Acros brands. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners (31.7%);
- home laundry appliances (26%): washing machine and dryer;
- cooking appliances (25.6%): oven, microwave ovens, hoods, cooktops;
- dishwasher (9.2%);
- other (2.8%): mixers, toasters, culinary robots, etc.
The remaining net sales (4.7%) are from spare parts sales and after-sales services.
At the end of 2022, the group has 35 production sites worldwide.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: North America (58.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (20.4%), Latin America (15.9%) and Asia (5.5%).