The Demetrios Agathangelides Scholarship

True Leaf Market is proud to support the agricultural sciences. Each year, we offer two $1000 scholarships to college students involved in the agricultural sciences. We encourage students in both graduate and undergraduate programs to apply for this scholarship, which will allow them to showcase the skills and knowledge they’ve learned in their agriculture-related field. We want applicants to demonstrate their knowledge with confidence while fulfilling the requirements for this scholarship. Overall, our aim is to encourage students to exercise what they have learned while bettering the world around them. We offer scholarships to students in these plant science related disciplines:

• Horticulture
• Botany
• Agriculture
• Landscape Architecture
• All Other Plant Science related disciplines

Learn more and apply at https://www.trueleafmarket.com/pages/scholarships

Applications due by July 31, 2020

Lallemand Forward - Animal Nutrition Scholarship

Lallemand Animal Nutrition, North America, is proud to announce for the fifth year, that it will provide the Lallemand Forward scholarship to help support future generations of animal agriculture.

Two, $2,500 scholarships will be awarded to fulltime undergraduate students in the United States, Mexico or Canada pursuing a degree in an agricultural field.

Undergraduate Guidelines:

• Must be a full-time student, pursuing a four-year degree in an agricultural program, including, but not limited to: Animal Science, Agribusiness, Crop Science, Livestock Management, Dairy Science, Ag Education, Agriculture Marketing, etc. 
• Must have a minimum of 60 credit hours (junior status) 
• Must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (must provide official or unofficial transcripts) 
• Must complete and submit Lallemand Forward Scholarship application 
• All applications must be submitted in English 
• Must submit a 300 to 500 word essay answering ONE of the following questions: Essays will be assessed on grammar, creativity, originality and addressing the question completely. 
• Explain what you think is the importance of agriculture in today’s society. 
• Name one issue facing the production agriculture industry today and explain it’s effect on the industry. 
• What do you believe are the most significant changes agriculture producers must make in the next 5 years and why?

Due August 7, 2020. 

Click HERE to access the application PDF. 

Lemelson - MIT Student Prize

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize honors promising collegiate inventors around the country. 

The Student Prize is open to teams of undergraduate students and individual graduate students who have technology-based inventions in categories that represent significant sectors of the economy: healthcare, food/water and agriculture, transportation and mobility, and consumer devices and products.

Initial Application Deadline: Friday, September 25, 2020 at 11:59pm ET

The 2021 Student Prize application is now open. All updated details about the 2021 eligibility requirements and application process are listed at https://lemelson.mit.edu/studentprize

Volunteer with Crossroads Farmers Market

Crossroads Farmers Market in Takoma Park, Maryland, is a lively community gathering space for people of all backgrounds and incomes, where families, foodies, neighbors, gardeners, live-music fans, and coffee lovers meet every Wednesday afternoon to eat lunch and stock up on fresh ingredients for the week ahead. This producers-only farmers market features a range of vendors selling fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, honey, coffee, flowers and plants, Central American herbs like chipilín, and tasty prepared foods, as well as food demos and tastings, kids’ activities, live music, free health screenings, and other seasonal events like our annual Halloween Spooktacular and pre-Thanksgiving Fun Before the Feast. On average, produce travels just 72 miles from area farms to our market, and our vendors collectively cultivate 622 agricultural acres of fresh food.

Crossroads Farmers Market was founded in 2007 to make fresh, healthy food more affordable and more accessible to residents of the Takoma/Langley Crossroads community. To help increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables, we gladly accept all federal nutrition benefits: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps); Women, Infants, and Children Fruit and Vegetable Checks (WIC FVC); Senior/WIC FMNP (Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks); and DC WIC. Not only was Crossroads Farmers Market the first farmers market in Maryland to accept these benefits, but also it was the first farmers market in the country to launch a “double dollar” incentive program to match them.

They are currently looking for student volunteers. If interested, contact Robin Hernandez: Healthy Eating Program Manager rhernandez@crossroadscommunityfoodnetwork.org

Deadline Extension for Veterans Scholarship Application

"Due to the disruptions to the Spring semester caused by COVID-19, the Office of Veteran Student Life is extending the deadline to apply for UMD Veterans Scholarships until the end of June. If you have not submitted an application, please do so by this new deadline. If you have already submitted an application, you may use this extra time to review it and resubmit, if you desire. We strongly encourage all student veterans to apply. You may access the application here: go.umd.edu/VetScholarship The deadline to submit is Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 11:59 PM. Please email David Reese at dmreese@umd.edu if you have any questions."