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Ken Griep, Chair of the Student Activities Committee, announces the following winners of the Thermoforming Division Scholarships. These will be presented to the winners at the annual Thermoforming Conference in Indianapolis.

$5,000 GRIEP MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
TRAVIS HUNTER
PENN STATE - ERIE

Travis Hunter is a Senior at Penn State-Erie ma-joring in Plastics Engineering Technology. Hehas had extensive experience with thethermoforming process and is currently complet-ing a project that tests the thermoformability of fourdifferent polymers (HDPE, LDPE, PP and PET)with additives. In an earlier project, he used anepoxy compound to form a mold of a product thatis already on the market and tested the permeabil-ity properties of the thermoformed polymer. Travishad an internship at Emerson Appliance Controlswhere he was able to design a new mold. The Man-ager of Engineering at Emerson indicated thatTravis and his partner, Joshua Sindlinger, were thebest interns he’d worked with in his 35 years withthe company.

$5,000 SEGEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
JOSHUA SINDLINGER
PENN STATE - ERIE

Joshua Sindlinger is a Senior at Penn State-Eriemajoring in Plastics Engineering Technology. Hehas had extensive experience with thethermoforming process and is currently complet-ing a project that tests the thermoformability of fourdifferent polymers (HDPE, LDPE, PP and PET)with additives. Josh partnered with his PS-E room-mate Travis Hunter at Emerson Appliance Controls.Josh also worked for Holbrook Tool as an injectionmolding machine operator in the summer of 2000.Upon graduation, he hopes to become a processengineer and then work his way up the corporate ladder.

The SPE Foundation annually presents 15-20 scholarships to full-time undergraduate or graduate students in science, engineering and related disciplines who show interest in pursuing a career in the plastics industry.

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