Fifteen agriculture students have been selected as the third class of recipients of the GROWMARK Foundation scholarship, each worth $1,500. More than 140 students from across the United States and Ontario, Canada, applied for the award. Applications were evaluated by a panel of agribusiness professionals, and the funds are available for the fall 2019 semester.
Students who were planning to study an agriculture-related field at a college, university, or technical school in the fall of 2019 in the U.S. or Ontario, Canada, were eligible for these scholarships. The application included several short-answer essay questions, and it asked about the student’s academic performance, community involvement, and work experiences.
Scholarship recipients, in alphabetical order, are:
- McKenzie Carvalho, of Maxwell, California — agribusiness and agricultural communications at Oklahoma State University
- Conner Christian, of Newark, Illinois — agriculture education at Joliet Junior College
- Michelle Cooney, of Deer Grove, Illinois — agribusiness and agronomy management at Illinois State University
- Tyler Ditchfield, of Ottawa, Illinois — agricultural engineering at the University of Illinois
- Shane Douglas, of Waterloo, Illinois — agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois
- Rebecca Dwyer, of Eureka, Illinois — agribusiness at Illinois State University
- Abigayle Endress, of Pearl City, Illinois — agricultural leadership education at the University of Illinois
- Ashley Hagenow, of Poynette, Wisconsin — agricultural communications and marketing at the University of Minnesota — Twin Cities
- Rachel Lokai, of Urbana, Ohio — animal science at the Ohio State University
- Kendall Lovejoy, of Archbold, Ohio — agribusiness at Grace College and Theological Seminary
- Abbey Schiefelbein, of Kimball, Minnesota — food science and technology at Kansas State University
- Jenna Straub, of Mahomet, Illinois — agribusiness at Murray State University
- Lynne Thomas, of Fallston, Maryland — agricultural and extension education at West Virginia University
- Collin Weltzien, of Arcadia, Wisconsin — agribusiness at the University of Wisconsin — River Falls
- Courtney Wiedenmann, of Coal Valley, Illinois — agricultural education at Oklahoma State University
