SYRACUSE, N.Y. — College students with career interests in the dairy industry have an opportunity to apply for three scholarships with upcoming application deadlines: Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program Scholarship by December 10, and American Dairy Association North East’s Leo Briggs Memorial and Dawn Houppert Memorial scholarships by December 31.
The $3,000 Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program Scholarship is for students with an interest in the dairy product marketing industry. Students must be enrolled in an accredited university or college in Pennsylvania or be a Pennsylvania resident and must be a full-time undergraduate entering their sophomore to senior years as of Fall 2021. Applicants must also maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale).
Completed applications must be submitted online, include essay responses, a current college transcript, and one letter of recommendation from a non-family member, professor and/or employer.
Applicants for the $500 Leo Briggs Memorial Scholarship must have exhibited leadership in dairy promotion, and applicants for the $1,000 Dawn Houppert Memorial Scholarship must be a current or former dairy princess from New York.
Applicants for these two scholarships must be college students who have completed one year of post-secondary education and are interested in agriculture, dairy product marketing, dairy manufacturing, agricultural communications, journalism or dairy product nutrition. They must also be from one of the six states in the ADA North East region – New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and northern Virginia.
Completed applications must be submitted online and must include essay responses and a current college transcript.
The applications are available on AmericanDairy.com under “For Farmers/Scholarships and Grants.”
For more information about the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program Scholarship, contact Amy Leslie at aleslie@milk4u.org, and for the Leo Briggs Memorial and Dawn Houppert Memorial scholarships, contact Reegan Domagala at rdomagala@milk4u.org.
–American Dairy Association North East