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Contractors Association of West Virginia announces 2015 Scholarship Winners

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2015 CAWV Scholarship Foundation award winner Kalee Murphy accepts her award from Foundation Chairman Gene Thompson at the CAWV State Meeting held in March.

, W.Va. — The Contractors Association of West Virginia (CAWV) Scholarship Foundation distributed $16,000 this year to West Virginia college students pursuing an education and career in construction or engineering. Recipients were selected on the basis of their academic performance, extracurricular activities, work experience, financial need and interest in a construction industry career. Eligible schools include West Virginia University, West Virginia University Institute of Technology, Marshall University, Fairmont State University and Bluefield State College. 

 
Kalee Murphy, a civil engineering technology student at Fairmont State University, is the recipient of the association’s $5,000 scholarship award for 2015.  Murphy is the President of the university’s American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter, a member of the concrete canoe team, and has completed a 2014 summer internship with the West Virginia Division of Highways.
 
“Engineering was not my first choice upon entering college,” Murphy said. “It took me two years to finally decide that civil engineering had just the right combination of challenge and excitement for me to thrive in. Today, I am proudly the President of ASCE at FSU.”
 
 Murphy expressed her thanks to the CAWV Scholarship Foundation, her professors and industry mentors during the CAWV’s State Meeting, held March 25, 2015 during the West Virginia Construction and Design Exposition. 
 
In addition to Murphy, the Foundation presented six other scholarships totaling $11,000. Students receiving scholarship awards were: William Bowman, J. Cole Anderson and George Lynch from Fairmont State University; Cassandra Mosley and Justin Smith from West Virginia University; and Benjamin Goffin from Bluefield State College.
 
The CAWV, the state’s largest full service construction association, represents over 450 firms in the building, highway and utility construction industry throughout West Virginia. 

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