High School Agricultural Scholarship
1st Farm Credit Services is pleased to offer the 2012 Agricultural Scholarship. The scholarships will assist deserving high school seniors to further their education in an agriculture or rural life-related field of study. Applications are open from mid-December to mid-February each year. This is the scholarship formerly known as the "At The Heart Of A Growing America" Scholarship.
Applications are now available. The deadline is February 15.
PROGRAM
Provides up to 24 individual $1,000 scholarships to students within the 42-county services territory of 1st Farm Credit Services. Access the 2012 application for review in Word format here.
ELIGIBILITY
Graduating high school seniors who have been accepted into an agriculture or agriculture-related curriculum at a university, college or community college and either reside or attend high school within 1st Farm Credit Services’ service territory.* Agriculture-related fields include those that would contribute to the quality of rural life for people living in rural areas, or for those who want to return to a rural area to work in any field.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Selection will be based on a combination of academic achievement, community and agricultural youth organization involvement and brief essays. Applicants will be judged by a panel of independent agribusiness, education, youth and farm organization leaders. Click here for more details.
DEADLINE
February 15, 2012.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
For more information, contact your local branch or Karen Blatter at (309) 268-0254 or kblatte@1stfarmcredit.com.
Mail completed application packets to:
1st Farm Credit Services
Attn: Scholarship Program, Karen Blatter
2000 Jacobssen Drive
Normal, Il 61761
PAST RECIPIENTS
2011 Recipients
*Services Territory: Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cook (Including the Chicago High School for Agriculture Sciences), DeKalb, DuPage, Fulton, Grundy, Henderson, Henry, Hancock, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, McHenry, McLean, Mercer, Ogle, Peoria, Pike, Putnam, Rock Island, Schuyler, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Warren, Whiteside, Will, Winnebago and Woodford Counties.