"At The Heart Of A Growing America" Scholarship
1st Farm Credit Services is now accepting applications for the "At the Heart Of A Growing America" Scholarship. The scholarships will assist deserving high school seniors to further their education in an agriculture or rural life-related field of study.
Application deadline is February 16, 2010.
Application - Word Document
Application - PDF
PROGRAM
Provides up to 24 individual $1,000 scholarships to students within the 42-county services territory of 1st Farm Credit Services.
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.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Qualifying students may obtain an application online (PDF or Word format) at www.1stfarmcredit.com or through a local 1st Farm Credit Services office.
Return completed typed application, typed essays, high school transcripts and a recent photo (head and shoulder preferred -- with name printed on back) to a local 1st Farm Credit Services office, or mail directly to 1st Farm Credit Services Scholarship Program, Karen
Blatter, 2000 Jacobssen Drive, Normal, IL 61761. For the address of the nearest 1st Farm Credit Services office, call (800) 444-FARM or visit www.1stfarmcredit.com. For more
information contact your local branch or Karen Blatter at (309) 268-0254.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Application deadline is February 16, 2010.
For more information, contact your local branch or Karen Blatter at (309) 268-0254 of kblatte@1stfarmcredit.com.
*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.